Strong's Lexicon

H3418

H3418 — יֶרֶק

Hebrew / Aramaic entry for Bible study and original-language reference.

Hebrewyereqnoun mascOccurrences: 6TWOT: 918a

Definition / Gloss

Strong's Number:	H3418
Word:	יֶרֶק
Part of Speech:	noun masc
Etymology:	from H3417 (in the sense of vacuity of color)
Language:	Hebrew
Occurrences:	6
Transliteration:	yereq
Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation:	yeh'-rek
Meaning:	1. (properly) pallor 2. (hence) the yellowish green of young and sickly vegetation 3. (concretely) verdure, i.e. grass or vegetation
KJV Renderings:	grass, green (thing).

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Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced

BDB3751

יֶ֫רֶק noun masculine^{Isa 15:6} green, greenness (on [untranscribed source text 2316] in gardens, see Nö^{ZMG 1876, 777} Löw^{p. 236 f.}) — absolute Exod 10:15; Isa 15:6 construct Gen 1:30 + 3 t.; — יֶרֶק עֵשֶׂב Gen 1:30; Gen 9:3 (both P ); יֶרֶק דֶּשֶׁא Ps 37:2 יֶרֶק הַשָּׂדֶה Num 22:4 ( E ) = green thing, grass; alone Exod 10:15 ( J ) green thing, including עֵץ and עֵשֶׂב, Isa 15:6.

Other Resources

Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament
R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, and Bruce K. Waltke

Englishman's Hebrew Concordance

ירק (yeh’-rek)

Genesis 1:30

KJV: And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.life: Heb. a living soul

EHCC: 1 have given) every green herb for meat:

Exodus 10:15

KJV: For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left: and there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through all the land of Egypt.

EHCC: there remained not any green thing

Numbers 22:4

KJV: And Moab said unto the elders of Midian, Now shall this company lick up all that are round about us, as the ox licketh up the grass of the field. And Balak the son of Zippor was king of the Moabites at that time.

EHCC: the ox licketh up the grass of the field.

Psalms 37:2

KJV: For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.

EHCC: and wither as the green herb.

Isaiah 15:6

KJV: For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate: for the hay is withered away, the grass faileth, there is no green thing.desolate: Heb. desolations

EHCC: there is no green thing.

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