יֶרֶק
yerek · green plants
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H3418 · appears 6 times in the Bible
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yerek (יֶרֶק) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “green plants”.
What is green: green plants, fresh grass.
How to say it
ye·rek
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- Fresh growth: young grass and tender plants.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
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Where it appears
- Genesis 1:30
And to every animal of the earth and to every bird of the sky and to everything that creeps on the earth, that has life, I give every green plant for food.” And it was so.
- Genesis 9:3
Every creeping thing that is alive will be food for you; as the green plants, I give you everything.
- Exodus 10:15
They covered the surface of all the land, so that the land was darkened, and they ate every plant of the land and all the fruit of the trees that the hail had left; and nothing green remained, neither on the trees nor in the plants of the field, in all the land of Egypt.
- Numbers 22:4
And Moab said to the elders of Midian, “Now this assembly will lick up all that is around us, as the ox licks up the green growth of the field.” And Balak son of Zippor was king of Moab at that time.
- Psalms 37:2
For like the grass quickly they will be cut down, and like the green of the pasture they will wither.
- Isaiah 15:6
For the waters of Nimrim will be desolations; for the grass has dried up, the tender grass is finished; green growth there is none.