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# green

adjective (green, greener, greenest); noun (green, greens)

«green» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Green is the colour of grass and leaves. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/green/#m1)
2. Green means not ripe yet: «green bananas». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/green/#m2)
3. Green means good for nature: «green energy». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/green/#m3)
4. A green is a grassy area: a village green. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/green/#m4)
5. Greens are green vegetables. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/green/#m5)

### In the lessons

a colour that tells one kind of a thing from another: green apples, green peaches, green marbles; in science and art, blue and yellow make green; plants are green because of chlorophyll; phrases: «green light» (go), «green with envy», «go green», «eat your greens»

### Examples

- There are 7 red peaches and 15 green peaches. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/green/#x1)
- How many green apples are in the basket? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/green/#x2)
- How many more green peaches than red? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/green/#x3)
- She has 12 green marbles. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/green/#x4)
- The grass is green after the rain. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/green/#x5)
- Wait for the green man before you cross. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/green/#x6)
- Blue and yellow make green. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/green/#x7)
- Eat your greens; they are good for you. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/green/#x8)

### Note

A kind word, not a quantity. It picks which group the number belongs to. Trap: «how many more green than red» is a difference; «how many peaches» adds all colours. Safety: cross the road only when the green man shows.

## In Jewish tradition

Green herbs are given to humans for food, as in the permission to eat everything after the flood.

**Interpretation.** Sefer Yetzirah reads the void as a green line around the universe. Green is also a color the rabbis linked to the life of plants.

### Examples

- Every moving thing that liveth shall be for food for you; as the green herb have I given you all. (Torah GEN.9.3, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/green/#x1)
- is a green line that surrounds the whole universe, and chaos (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/green/#x2)
- Void is a green line that sur- rounds the whole universe, and chaos refers to viscous stones, (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/green/#x3)
- He is green before the sun, and his shoots go forth over his garden. (Writings JOB.8.16, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/green/#x4)
- For they shall soon wither like the grass, and fade as the green herb. (Writings PSA.37.2, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/green/#x5)
- The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searcheth after every green thing. (Writings JOB.39.8, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/green/#x6)

### Note

A kind word, not a quantity. It picks which group the number belongs to. Trap: «how many more green than red» is a difference; «how many peaches» adds all colours. Safety: cross the road only when the green man shows.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «green» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/green/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«green» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/green.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «green» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/green/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«green» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/green.html) on Mova free.