יֶרֶקyereq
green, greenness (Isaiah 15:6; Exodus 10:15; Genesis 1:30; Genesis 9:3; Psalms 37:2)
Pronunciation: yeh'-rek · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H3418
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 6 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 1:30 And I have given every green plant as food for all the wild animals, the birds in the sky, and the small animals that scurry along the ground—everything that has life.” And that is what happened.
- Genesis 9:3 I have given them to you for food, just as I have given you grain and vegetables.
- Exodus 10:15 For the locusts covered the whole country and darkened the land. They devoured every plant in the fields and all the fruit on the trees that had survived the hailstorm. Not a single leaf was left on the trees and plants throughout the land of Egypt.
- Numbers 22:4 The king of Moab said to the elders of Midian, “This mob will devour everything in sight, like an ox devours grass in the field!” So Balak, king of Moab,
- Psalms 37:2 For like grass, they soon fade away. Like spring flowers, they soon wither.
- Isaiah 15:6 Even the waters of Nimrim are dried up! The grassy banks are scorched. The tender plants are gone; nothing green remains.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).