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green

Meaning of “green”

Having the color of living vegetation; fresh, flourishing, or not dried.

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41 occurrences41 verses19 booksKJV PCE

First occurrence: Genesis 1:30

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Psalms 37:35
I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.
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1611 witness · Psalms 37:35 · retained source text

I haue seene the wicked in great power: and spreading himselfe like a greene bay tree.

1611 marginal noteOr, a greeve tree, that groweth him owne soyle.

Psalms 52:8
But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God: I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever.
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But I am like a greene oliue tree in the house of God: I trust in the mercy of God for euer and euer.

Song of Solomon 1:16
Behold, thou art fair, my beloved, yea, pleasant: also our bed is green.
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Behold, thou art faire, my beloued; yea pleasant: also our bedde is greene.

1611 marginal noteChap.4.1 and 5.12.

Song of Solomon 2:13
The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
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The fig tree putteth foorth her greene figs, and the vines with the tender grape giue a good smell. Arise, my loue, my faire one, and come away.

Isaiah 15:6
For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate: for the hay is withered away, the grass faileth, there is no green thing.
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For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate: for the hay is withered away, the grasse faileth, there is no greene thing.

1611 marginal noteHeb. desolations.

Isaiah 37:27
Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded: they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.
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Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded: they were as the grasse of the field, and as the greene herbe, as the grasse on the house tops, and as corne blasted before it be growen vp.

1611 marginal noteHeb. short of hand.

Isaiah 57:5
Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks?
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Inflaming your selues with idoles vnder euery greene tree, slaying the children in the valleys vnder the cliftes of the rockes?

1611 marginal noteOr, among the okes.

1611 marginal note1.Kin.16.4.

Jeremiah 2:20
¶ For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree thou wanderest, playing the harlot.
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¶ For of old time I haue broken thy yoke, and burst thy bands, and thou saidst; I will not transgresse: when vpon euery high hill, and vnder euery greene tree thou wandrest, playing the harlot.

1611 marginal noteOr, serue.

1611 marginal noteIsai. 57.5,7.

1611 marginal noteIer.3.6.

Jeremiah 3:6
¶ The Lord said also unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done? she is gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath played the harlot.
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¶ The LORD said also vnto me, in the daies of Iosiah the king, Hast thou seene that which backsliding Israel hath done? she is gone vp vpon euery high mountaine, and vnder euery greene tree, and there hath plaied the harlot.

1611 marginal noteCha.2.20.

Jeremiah 3:13
Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against the Lord thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith the Lord.
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Only acknowledge thine iniquity that thou hast transgressed against the LORD thy God, and hast scattered thy wayes to the strangers vnder euery greene tree, and ye haue not obeyed my voice, saith the LORD.

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