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Lexicon :: Strong's G5528 - chortos

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χόρτος
Transliteration
chortos (Key)
Pronunciation
khor'-tos
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Apparently a primary word
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Strong’s Definitions

χόρτος chórtos, khor'-tos; apparently a primary word; a "court" or "garden", i.e. (by implication, of pasture) herbage or vegetation:—blade, grass, hay.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 15x

The KJV translates Strong's G5528 in the following manner: grass (12x), blade (2x), hay (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 15x
The KJV translates Strong's G5528 in the following manner: grass (12x), blade (2x), hay (1x).
  1. the place where grass grows and animals graze

  2. grass, herbage, hay, provender

    1. of green grass

    2. of growing crops

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
χόρτος chórtos, khor'-tos; apparently a primary word; a "court" or "garden", i.e. (by implication, of pasture) herbage or vegetation:—blade, grass, hay.
STRONGS G5528:
χόρτος, χόρτου, ;
1. the place where grass grows and animals glaze: Homer, Iliad 11, 774; 24, 640.
2. from Hesiod down, grass, herbage, hay, provender: of green grass, Matthew 6:30; Matthew 14:19; Luke 12:28; John 6:10; James 1:10; 1 Peter 1:24 (from Isaiah 40:6ff); Revelation 9:4; χόρτος χλωρός, Mark 6:39; Revelation 8:7; χόρτος of growing crops, Matthew 13:26; Mark 4:28; of hay, 1 Corinthians 3:12. (the Sept. for חָצִיר, grass, and עֶשֶׂב.)
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Isaiah
40:6
Matthew
6:30; 13:26; 14:19
Mark
4:28; 6:39
Luke
12:28
John
6:10
1 Corinthians
3:12
James
1:10
1 Peter
1:24
Revelation
8:7; 9:4

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G5528 matches the Greek χόρτος (chortos),
which occurs 44 times in 42 verses in the LXX Greek.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:11 - Then God said, “Let the earth sprout [fn]vegetation, [fn]plants yielding seed, and fruit trees on the earth bearing fruit after [fn]their kind [fn]with seed in them”; and it was so.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:12 - And the earth brought forth [fn]vegetation, [fn]plants yielding seed after [fn]their kind, and trees bearing fruit [fn]with seed in them, after [fn]their kind; and God saw that it was good.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:29 - Then God said, “Behold, I have given to you every plant yielding seed that is on the [fn]surface of all the earth, and every tree [fn]which has the fruit of the tree yielding seed; it shall be food for you;
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:30 - and to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the [fn]sky and to every thing that creeps on the earth [fn]which has life, I have given every green plant for food”; and it was so.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:5 - Now no shrub of the field was yet in the earth, and no plant of the field had yet grown, for Yahweh God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was no man to [fn]cultivate the ground.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:18 -

“Both thorns and thistles it shall grow for you;

And you will eat the [fn]plants of the field;

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:3 - “Every moving thing that is alive shall be food for you; as with the green plant, I give all to you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:2 -

“Let what I have learned drop as the rain,

My speech distill as the dew,

As the droplets on the fresh grass

And as the showers on the herb.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:26 -

‘So their inhabitants were short of power,

They were dismayed and put to shame;

They were as the plant of the field and as the green herb,

As grass on the rooftops is scorched before it rises.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 13:25 -

“Will You cause a driven leaf to tremble?

Or will You pursue the dry chaff?

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 40:15 -

“Behold now, [fn]Behemoth, which I made along with you;

It eats grass like an ox.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:28 -

“The [fn]arrow cannot make it flee;

Slingstones are turned into stubble for it.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 37:2 -

For they will wither quickly like the grass

And fade like the green herb.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 72:16 -

May there be abundance of grain in the earth on top of the mountains;

May its fruit wave like the cedars of Lebanon;

And may those from the city blossom like vegetation of the earth.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 92:7 -

That when the wicked flourished like grass

And all the workers of iniquity blossomed,

It was only that they might be destroyed forevermore.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:4 -

My heart has been stricken like [fn]grass and it has dried up,

Indeed, I forget to eat my bread.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:11 -

My days are like an outstretched shadow,

And as for me, I dry up like [fn]grass.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 103:15 -

As for man, his days are like grass;

As a flower of the field, so he flowers.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:14 -

[fn]He causes the grass to grow for the [fn]cattle,

And vegetation for man’s [fn]cultivation,

To bring forth [fn]food from the earth,

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:35 -

And [fn]they ate up all vegetation in their land,

And [fn]they ate up the fruit of their ground.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:20 -

Thus they exchanged their glory

For the image of an ox that eats grass.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 129:6 -

Let them be like grass upon the rooftops,

Which dries up before it [fn]grows up;

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 147:8 -

He is the One who covers the heavens with clouds,

The One who provides rain for the earth,

The One who makes grass to sprout on the mountains,

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 19:12 -

The king’s wrath is like the roaring of a lion,

But his favor is like dew on the grass.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:25 -

When the grass disappears and the vegetation appears,

And the herbs of the mountains are gathered in,

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:17 -

And the light of Israel will become a fire and his Holy One a flame,

And it will burn and devour his thorns and his briars in a single day.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 15:6 -

For the waters of Nimrim are [fn]desolate.

Surely the grass is dried up, the tender grass has [fn]completely ceased,

There is no green thing.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:13 -

For the land of my people in which thorns and briars shall come up,

Indeed, against all the joyful houses and the exultant city.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:27 -

“So their inhabitants were short of power;

They were dismayed and put to shame;

They were as the plant of the field and as the green herb,

As grass on the rooftops [fn]is scorched before it rises.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:6 -

A voice says, “Call out.”

Then [fn]he answered, “What shall I call out?”

All flesh is grass, and all its lovingkindness is like the flower of the field.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:7 -

The grass [fn]withers, the flower fades,

[fn]When the breath of Yahweh blows upon it;

Surely the people are grass.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:4 -

And they will spring up [fn]among the grass

Like poplars by streams of water.’

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:12 -

“I, even I, am He who comforts you.

Who are you that you are afraid of man who dies

And of the son of man who is made like grass,

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:22 -

Speak, “Thus declares Yahweh,

‘The corpses of men will fall like dung on the open field

And like the sheaf after the reaper,

But no one will gather them.’”

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:4 -

How long is the land to mourn

And the plants of every field to dry up?

Because of the evil of those who inhabit it,

Animals and birds have been swept away,

Because men have said, “He will not see our latter ending.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:6 -

“The wild donkeys stand on the bare heights;

They pant for air like jackals;

Their eyes fail

For there is no vegetation.

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 4:15 -

“Yet leave the stump [fn]with its roots in the earth,

But with a band of iron and bronze around it

In the new grass of the field;

And let him be drenched with the dew of heaven,

And let [fn]him share with the beasts in the grass of the earth.

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 4:25 - that you be driven away from mankind and your place of habitation be with the beasts of the field, and you be given grass to eat like cattle and be drenched with the dew of heaven; and seven [fn]periods of time will pass over you, until you know that the Most High is the powerful ruler over the kingdom of mankind and gives it to whomever He wishes.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 4:32 - and you will be driven away from mankind, and your place of habitation will be with the beasts of the field. You will be given grass to eat like cattle, and seven [fn]periods of time will pass over you until you know that the Most High is the powerful ruler over the kingdom of mankind and gives it to whomever He wishes.’
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 4:33 - “Immediately the word concerning Nebuchadnezzar was accomplished; and he was driven away from mankind and began eating grass like cattle, and his body was drenched with the dew of heaven until his hair had grown like eagles’ feathers and his nails like birds’ claws.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 5:21 - “He was also driven away from the sons of [fn]men, and his heart was made like that of beasts, and his place of habitation was with the wild donkeys. He was given grass to eat like cattle, and his body was drenched with the dew of the sky until he knew that the Most High God is the powerful ruler over the kingdom of mankind and that He sets up over it whomever He wishes.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 7:2 - And it happened [fn]when it had completed eating the vegetation of the land, that I said,

“Lord Yahweh, please pardon!

[fn]How can Jacob rise up,

For he is small?”

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