Daily
reading and paused over this passage:
Mar 6:39
And he commanded them to make all sit down by companies upon the green
grass.
Not just grass, green grass, which I find interesting. Again, after how many readings and I just now noticed the adjective?
Green – G5515 - From the same as G5514;
greenish, that is, verdant,
dun-colored: - green, pale. Total KJV
occurrences: 4
·
G5514 - Feminine
of apparently a primary word; “green”;
Chloe, a Christian
female: - Chloe. Total KJV occurrences: 1
G5515 Uses:
Rev
6:8 And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and
his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was
given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with
hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
Rev
8:7 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire
mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of
trees was burnt up, and all green grass was
burnt up.
Rev
9:4 And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of
the earth, neither any green thing,
neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their
foreheads.
The
word ‘green’ is used 41 times in Scripture – the first usage is in Genesis
1:30.
H24
– From an unused root (meaning to be tender). 8x
H1877
– From H1876; a sprout; by analogy grass.
15x
H3387
– From H3417; green that is, an herb.
1x
H3418
– From H3417 (in the sense of vacuity of color). 6x
H3419
– From the same as H3418; properly green;
concretely a vegetable. 5x
H3759
– From H3754; a planted field
(garden, orchard, vineyard or park). 14x
H3768
– Of foreign origin; byssus or fine
vegetable wool. 1x
H3892
– From an unused root meaning to be new;
fresh, that is unused or undried. 6x
H6291
– From an unused root meaning to be
torpid, that is, crude; an unripe fig. 1x
H7488
– From an unused root meaning to be
green; verdant; by analogy new; figuratively prosperous. 20x
G5200 – From the base of G5202; wet (as if with rain), that is, (by implication) sappy (fresh). 1x
Definitions
(courtesy of Oxford Dictionaries) for words highlighted in red.
Verdant – adjective - (of
countryside) green with grass or other rich vegetation.
Vacuity – noun - lack of
thought or intelligence; empty-headedness:
Byssus – noun - a fine
textile fiber and fabric of flax.
