Strong G5200ὑγρός

moist/green

Transliteration
hugros
Pronunciation
hoo-gros'
Morphology
Greek Adjective

Definition

From the base of G5205; wet (as if with rain) that is (by implication) sappy (fresh): - green.

Detailed definition

ὑγρός, -ά, -όν,
[in LXX: Jdg.16:7,8 (לַח), Job.8:16 (רָשׂב), Sir.39:13
wet, moist, opposite to ξηρός: of wood, sappy, green: Luk.23:31.†
(AS)

In the Bible

Strong G5200 appears in 1 verse of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • green1

First verses

  1. Luke 23:31
    For if they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry?
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Detailed Greek dictionary
ὑγρός, ά, όν:
comparative ὑγρότερος [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 162b, etc.)]: superlative -ότατος[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Equitandi ratione” 7.7, etc.)]:—wet, moist, fluid (opposed to ξηρός), ὑγρὸν ἔλαιον, i. e. olive-oil, opposed to fat or tallow, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.281, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 6.79)]; ὑ. πίσσα, νᾶπυ, raw pitch, liquid mustard, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (“SIG” 1171.14 (Lebena, 1st c.BC), “IG” 42(1).126.22 (Epid., 2nd c.AD))]; τὸ ὑ. ξύλον, opposed to τὸ ξηρόν, [NT+8th c.BC+ (NT.Luke.23.31; ὑγρὸν ὕδωρ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.458)]; ἄνεμοι ὑγρὸν ἀέντες winds blowing moist or rainy, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (5.478, 19.440, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 625, “Th.” 869)]; ὑ. ἅλς, πέλαγος, θάλασσα, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 7.69. “P.” 4.40, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 259)]; ὑγρὰ νύξ a wet night, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Critias” 112a)]; ἐφ᾽ ὑγροῖς ζωγραφεῖν paint on a wet ground, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.759c.)]
2 ὑγρά, Ionic dialect ὑγρή, ἡ, the moist, i.e. the sea, ἐπὶ τραφερήν τε καὶ ὑγρήν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 14.308; ἠμὲν ἐφ᾽ ὑγρὴν ἠδ᾽ ἐπ᾽ ἀπείρονα γαῖαν 24.341, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.97; ἐφ᾽ ὑγρᾷ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 678; πουλὺν ἐφ᾽ ὑγρήν 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 10.27)]; so ὑγρὰ κέλευθα the watery ways, i. e. the sea,[Refs 8th c.BC+ (1.312, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.71.)]
3 τὸ ὑ. and τὰ ὑ. wet, moisture, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.142, 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ τόπων τῶν κατὰ ἄνθρωπον” 9, “Liqu.” at Title Page)]; Liquid, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.172; γῆ ὑγρῷ φυραθεῖσα 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 147c)]; ἐξερρύα συχνὸν ὑγρόν a quantity of fluid, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (Inscriptiones Graecae 42(1).122.4 (Epid., 4th c.BC))]; μετρεῖν τὰ ὑγρά liquids, [Refs ([prev. work]22.1013.10)]; ἐπὶ ὑγροῖς οὐκ ἐξὸν δανείζειν [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (“PGnom.” 232 (2nd c.AD).)]
4 μέτρα ὑγρὰ καὶ ξηρά liquid and dry measure, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 746e.)]
5 θῆρες ὑ. water-animals, opposed to πεζοί, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (“Anthologia Graeca” 9.18 (\{1st c.BC-1st c.AD\}: Germanicus Caesar Epigrammaticus); οἱ ὄρνιθες οἱ ὑ. 2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Philostrati majoris imagines” 1.9)]; ὑ. ἀοιδός, of a frog, [Refs (“Anthologia Graeca” 6.43 (from Plato).)]
6 of the bowels or faeces, loose, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἀφορισμοί” 2.20, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 617a1.)]
7 ὑ. σφυγμός a damp pulse, defined by [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 19.405.)]
II soft, pliant, supple, of the eagle's back, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 1.9)]; of the limbs and body, ὑγραῖς ἐν ἀγκάλαις [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 941, compare 2nd c.AD: Babrius Fabularum Scriptor 34.7)]; ὑγρὸς τὸ εἶδος, of Ἔρως, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 196a)]; νεώτερος καὶ ὑγρότερος, opposed to σκληρός, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Tht.” 162b; χορῷ.. ἔτερπον κέαρ ὑγροῖσι ποσσί 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus 16.108; ὑ. ὀρχηστής 2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 4.96, compare 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Partibus Animalium” 655a24 (_comparative_))]; ὑγρὰ ἔχειν τὰ σκέλη, of a horse, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Equitandi ratione” 1.6)]; of a horse's neck, [Refs ([prev. author] “Cyn.” 4.1 (so in _adverb_ of colts, γόνατα ὑγρῶς κάμπτειν, ὑγρῶς τοῖς σκέλεσι χρῆσθαι, [prev. author] “Eq.” 1.6, 10.15))]; of the hare, [Refs ([prev. author] “Cyn.” 5.31)]; of the jackal, ταχυτῆτι διαφέρει διὰ τὸ ὑγρὸς εἶναι καὶ πηδᾷ πόρρω [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 580a30)]; also of plants, ὑ. ἄκανθος [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 1.55; ὑ. χολάδες 2nd c.AD: Babrius Fabularum Scriptor 1.10)]; σῶμα ὑγρὸν κείμενον lying in an easy position, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “προγνωστικόν” 3; ὑγρὸν χύτλασον σεαυτόν 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 1213)]; κέρας ὑ., of a bow, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 25.206.)]
II.2 languid, feeble, of one dying, ἐς ὑγρὸν ἀγκῶνα.. παρθένῳ προσπτύσσεται [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 1236; κἀπιθεὶς ὑγρὰν χέρα 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 1439.)]
II.3 of substance, flaccid, flabby, σάρκες [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 598a9, 603b32, +others)]
II.3.b tender, νεοττοί [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “De Natura Animalium - Ar.Byzantine Epit.” 7.9; βρέφος 4th-5th c.AD(?): Nonnus Epicus “Dionysiaca” 1.4.)]
II.4 moist with wine, tipsy, ὑγρὴν τὴν ψυχὴν ἔχειν [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD(?): Heraclitus 117; ἡ διάνοια ὑ. γεγενημένη 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.713a; οἰνοβαρὴς.. ὑγρὸν ἀείδων, οὐ μάλα νγφάλιον κλάζων μέλος 2nd-3rd c.AD: Oppianus Anazarbensis Epicus “Halieutica - Poetae Bucolici et Didactici” 2.412.)]
II.5 of the eyes, melting, languishing, ὑ. βλέμμα [Refs 1st c.AD+ (“Anacreontea” 15.21; ὑγρὰ δερκομένοισιν ἐν ὄμμασιν “Anthologia Graeca” 7.27 (Antip. Sid.); ἐπ᾽ ὄμμασιν ὑγρὰ δεδορκώς “APl.” 4.306 (1st c.AD: Leonidas Alexandrinus Epigrammaticus); τῶν ὀφθαλμῶν τὸ ὑ. ἅμα τῷ φαιδρῷ 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Im.” 6)]; also πόθος ὑ. a languishing, longing desire, [Refs (“hymnus ad Panem” 33)]. adverb, ὑγρῶς βλέπειν [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Epistulae” 33)]: superlative, ὑγρότατα καὶ πένθιμα μελῳδεῖν [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Appianus Historicus “Bella Civilia” 1.106.)]
II.6 of language, smoothly flowing, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Demosthene” 20.)]
II.7 metaphorically of persons or their tempers, facile, pliant, easy, ὑγρός τις καὶ δημοτικός [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Marius” 28; κόλαξ ὑγρὸς ὢν μεταβάλλεσθαι [prev. author] 2.51c)]; τὸ Κίμωνος ὑ. his easy temper, [Refs ([prev. author] “Per.” 5)]; pleasure-loving, [Refs 5th c.AD+ (5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus)]; ὑγρότατος ἐς ταῦτα prone to.., [Refs 1st c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Appianus Historicus “Bella Civilia” 5.8; ὑ. τῷ γελοίῳ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Brutus” 29 (_comparative_).)]
II.7.b soft, dainty, luxurious, voluptuous, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ ([prev. author] 2.751a; ὑ. πρὸς τὴν δίαιταν [prev. author] “Sol.” 3; βίου.., ὃν πάντες εἰώθασιν ὀνομάζειν ὑγρόν 2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 203; compare ὑγρότης 11.2.)]
II.8 of the vowels α ι υ, sometimes long and sometimes short, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “adversus Mathematicos” 1.100.)]
II.8.b of στοιχεῖα, liquid (i.e. λ μ ν ρ), [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Dionysius Thrax Grammaticus 632.9, 7th c.AD: Hephaestio Grammaticus 1.3, +others)]
III adverb ὑγρῶς, see above [Refs (11.1 and 5)]; also ὑγρότερον δαπανᾶν spend more freely, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “περὶ οἰκονομίας” p.73J.)]