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# יֶרֶק

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3418

**green** — used 8 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

green [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3418/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יֶ֫רֶק: n.m. green, greenness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3418/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Is 15:6 green, greenness (on ܝܰܪܩܳܐ in gardens, v. NöZMG 1876, 777 Löwp. 236 f.)—abs. Ex 10:15 Is 15:6; cstr. Gn 1:30 + 3 times;—יֶרֶק עֵשֶׂב Gn 1:30; 9:3 (both P); יֶרֶק דֶּשֶׁא ψ 37:2; יֶרֶק הַשָּׂדֶה Nu 22:4 (E) = green thing, grass; alone Ex 10:15 (J) green thing, incl. עֵץ and עֵשֶׂב, Is 15:6.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (13 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (10 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: greenery (7); the greenery (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 37:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.37.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.37.2/#tree)

כִּ֣י כֶ֭חָצִיר מְהֵרָ֣ה יִמָּ֑לוּ וּכְיֶ֥רֶק דֶּ֝֗שֶׁא יִבּוֹלֽוּן׃

*Word for word:* (dm) like (the) grass quickly they.will.wither and like.\[the\] greenery of.fresh.grass they will.fade

*JPS 1917:* For they shall soon wither like the grass, and fade as the green herb.

[Isaiah 15:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.15.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.15.6/#tree)

כִּֽי־מֵ֥י נִמְרִ֖ים מְשַׁמּ֣וֹת יִֽהְי֑וּ כִּֽי־יָבֵ֤שׁ חָצִיר֙ כָּ֣לָה דֶ֔שֶׁא יֶ֖רֶק לֹ֥א הָיָֽה׃

*Word for word:* (dm) the.waters of.Nimrim wastes they.are (dm) it.has.dried.up grass it.has.wasted.away fresh.grass greenery not it.is

*JPS 1917:* For the Waters of Nimrim shall be desolate; for the grass is withered away, the herbage faileth, there is no green thing.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3418.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3418/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).