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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, ὁ;
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.)
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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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 1:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:11 - Then God said, “Let the land sprout with vegetation—every sort of seed-bearing plant, and trees that grow seed-bearing fruit. These seeds will then produce the kinds of plants and trees from which they came.” And that is what happened.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 1:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:12 - The land produced vegetation—all sorts of seed-bearing plants, and trees with seed-bearing fruit. Their seeds produced plants and trees of the same kind. And God saw that it was good.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 1:29

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:29 - Then God said, “Look! I have given you every seed-bearing plant throughout the earth and all the fruit trees for your food.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 1:30

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:30 - And I have given every green plant as food for all the wild animals, the birds in the sky, and the small animals that scurry along the ground—everything that has life.” And that is what happened.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 2:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:5 - neither wild plants nor grains were growing on the earth. For the LORD God had not yet sent rain to water the earth, and there were no people to cultivate the soil.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 3:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:18 - It will grow thorns and thistles for you,
though you will eat of its grains.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 9:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:3 - I have given them to you for food, just as I have given you grain and vegetables.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 32:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:2 - Let my teaching fall on you like rain;
let my speech settle like dew.
Let my words fall like rain on tender grass,
like gentle showers on young plants.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 19:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:26 - That is why their people have so little power
and are so frightened and confused.
They are as weak as grass,
as easily trampled as tender green shoots.
They are like grass sprouting on a housetop,
scorched before it can grow lush and tall.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 13:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 13:25 - Would you terrify a leaf blown by the wind?
Would you chase dry straw?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 40:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 40:15 - “Take a look at Behemoth,[fn]
which I made, just as I made you.
It eats grass like an ox.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 41:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:28 - Arrows cannot make it flee.
Stones shot from a sling are like bits of grass.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 37:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 37:2 - For like grass, they soon fade away.
Like spring flowers, they soon wither.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 72:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 72:16 - May there be abundant grain throughout the land,
flourishing even on the hilltops.
May the fruit trees flourish like the trees of Lebanon,
and may the people thrive like grass in a field.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 92:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 92:7 - Though the wicked sprout like weeds
and evildoers flourish,
they will be destroyed forever.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 102:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:4 - My heart is sick, withered like grass,
and I have lost my appetite.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 102:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:11 - My life passes as swiftly as the evening shadows.
I am withering away like grass.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 103:15

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 103:15 - Our days on earth are like grass;
like wildflowers, we bloom and die.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 104:14

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:14 - You cause grass to grow for the livestock
and plants for people to use.
You allow them to produce food from the earth—

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 105:35

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:35 - They ate up everything green in the land,
destroying all the crops in their fields.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 106:20

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:20 - They traded their glorious God
for a statue of a grass-eating bull.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 129:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 129:6 - May they be as useless as grass on a rooftop,
turning yellow when only half grown,

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 147:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 147:8 - He covers the heavens with clouds,
provides rain for the earth,
and makes the grass grow in mountain pastures.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 19:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 19:12 - The king’s anger is like a lion’s roar,
but his favor is like dew on the grass.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 27:25

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:25 - After the hay is harvested and the new crop appears
and the mountain grasses are gathered in,

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 10:17

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:17 - The LORD, the Light of Israel, will be a fire;
the Holy One will be a flame.
He will devour the thorns and briers with fire,
burning up the enemy in a single night.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 15:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 15:6 - Even the waters of Nimrim are dried up!
The grassy banks are scorched.
The tender plants are gone;
nothing green remains.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 32:13

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:13 - For your land will be overgrown with thorns and briers.
Your joyful homes and happy towns will be gone.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 37:27

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:27 - That is why their people have so little power
and are so frightened and confused.
They are as weak as grass,
as easily trampled as tender green shoots.
They are like grass sprouting on a housetop,
scorched[fn] before it can grow lush and tall.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 40:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:6 - A voice said, “Shout!”
I asked, “What should I shout?”
“Shout that people are like the grass.
Their beauty fades as quickly
as the flowers in a field.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 40:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:7 - The grass withers and the flowers fade
beneath the breath of the LORD.
And so it is with people.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 44:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:4 - They will thrive like watered grass,
like willows on a riverbank.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 51:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:12 - “I, yes I, am the one who comforts you.
So why are you afraid of mere humans,
who wither like the grass and disappear?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 9:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:22 - This is what the LORD says:
“Bodies will be scattered across the fields like clumps of manure,
like bundles of grain after the harvest.
No one will be left to bury them.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 12:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:4 - How long must this land mourn?
Even the grass in the fields has withered.
The wild animals and birds have disappeared
because of the evil in the land.
For the people have said,
“The LORD doesn’t see what’s ahead for us!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 14:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:6 - The wild donkeys stand on the bare hills
panting like thirsty jackals.
They strain their eyes looking for grass,
but there is none to be found.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 4:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 4:15 - But leave the stump and the roots in the ground, bound with a band of iron and bronze and surrounded by tender grass. Now let him be drenched with the dew of heaven, and let him live with the wild animals among the plants of the field.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 4:25

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 4:25 - You will be driven from human society, and you will live in the fields with the wild animals. You will eat grass like a cow, and you will be drenched with the dew of heaven. Seven periods of time will pass while you live this way, until you learn that the Most High rules over the kingdoms of the world and gives them to anyone he chooses.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 4:32

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 4:32 - You will be driven from human society. You will live in the fields with the wild animals, and you will eat grass like a cow. Seven periods of time will pass while you live this way, until you learn that the Most High rules over the kingdoms of the world and gives them to anyone he chooses.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 4:33

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 4:33 - “That same hour the judgment was fulfilled, and Nebuchadnezzar was driven from human society. He ate grass like a cow, and he was drenched with the dew of heaven. He lived this way until his hair was as long as eagles’ feathers and his nails were like birds’ claws.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 5:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 5:21 - He was driven from human society. He was given the mind of a wild animal, and he lived among the wild donkeys. He ate grass like a cow, and he was drenched with the dew of heaven, until he learned that the Most High God rules over the kingdoms of the world and appoints anyone he desires to rule over them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 7:2

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 7:2 - In my vision the locusts ate every green plant in sight. Then I said, “O Sovereign LORD, please forgive us or we will not survive, for Israel[fn] is so small.”
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