Strong G5515χλωρός
green
- Transliteration
- chlōros
- Pronunciation
- khlo-ros'
- Morphology
- Greek Adjective
Definition
From the same as G5514; greenish that is verdant dun-colored: - green pale.
Detailed definition
χλωρός, -ά, -όν
(χλόη), [in LXX for יֶרֶק, etc.;]
__(a) pale green: χόρτος, Mrk.6:39, Rev.8:7; πᾶν χ., Rev.9:4;
__(b) pale: ἵππος, Rev.6:8.†
(AS)
(χλόη), [in LXX for יֶרֶק, etc.;]
__(a) pale green: χόρτος, Mrk.6:39, Rev.8:7; πᾶν χ., Rev.9:4;
__(b) pale: ἵππος, Rev.6:8.†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G5515 appears in 4 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- green2
- pale1
- thing1
First verses
- Mark 6:39And he commanded them to make all sit down by companies upon the green grass.
- Revelation 6:8And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
- Revelation 8:7The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.
- Revelation 9:4And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads.
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Detailed Greek dictionary
χλωρός, ά, όν,
greenish-yellow, pale green, χλωραὶ ῥῶπες [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 16.47; ὄρος.. χλωρόν “hymnus ad Apollinem” 223; χλωραὶ ἐλάται 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “Fragmenta.” 167, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 38; χλωραῖς ὑπὸ βάσσαις 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 673 (Lyric poetry); χλωρὰν ἀν᾽ ὕλην 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 17; δόνακι χλωρὸν Εὐρώταν [prev. author] “Hel.” 349 (Lyric poetry), compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 1132 (Lyric poetry))]; also in Prose, σίτου ἔτι χ. ὄντος [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.6; τὰ φυόμενα χ. τὸ πρῶτον εἶναι 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Sensu” 78)]; ἡ χ. the green plaster, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD: Andromachus Poeta Medicus cited in 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 13.470)]; χλωρὸς λίθος, ={σμάραγδος}, [Refs (“PHolm.” 5.10)]; of sea-water, poetical cited in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.767f(compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 1084))]; of other water, [Refs 5th c.AD+ (“Anthologia Graeca” 9.669.3 (5th-6th c.AD: Marianus Epigrammaticus): χλωρά, ἡ,)] green paint, as a stage-property to represent a river in scenery, Papyrus in [Refs 5th c.AD+ (“Eos.” 32.30 (5th-6th c.AD).)]
2 yellow, μέλι χ. [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.631, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.234)]; ἀμφὶ χλωρὰν ψάμαθον on the yellow sand, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 1064)]; ᾠοῦ τὸ χ. yolk of egg, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD: Zopyrus Medicus cited in 4th c.AD: Oribasius Medicus 14.61.1.)]
II generally, pale, pallid, χλωρὸς ἀδάμας [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Scutum Herculis” 231: most frequently,)]
II.2 of persons, pale, χλωρὸς ὑπαὶ δείους [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 10.376, 15.4)]; χ. Ἀχλύς (personified) [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Scutum Herculis” 265; χλωροτέρα.. ποίας ἔμμι 7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica 2.14)]; hence as an epithet of fear, χλωρὸν δέος [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 7.479, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 11.43, etc.; χλωρῷ δείματι 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 566 (Lyric poetry), compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 599 (Lyric poetry))]: in in Medicine texts writers, yellow, biliouslooking, ὀφθαλμοὶ -ότεροι see reading in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἀρχαίης ἰητρικῇς” 10; χρῶμα χ. ἴσχειν [prev. author] “Prog.” 24; σῶμα.. οὔτε χ. ἀλλ᾽ ὑπέρυθρον 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.49)]; also χ. πτύελος, οὖρον, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “προγνωστικόν” 14, “VM” 10 (_comparative_).)]
III without regard to colour, green, i. e. fresh, opposed to dry, especially of wood, ῥόπαλον.. χλωρὸν ἐλαΐνεον of green olive-wood, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.320, compare 379)]; opposed to αὖος, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 743; τὰ σφόδρα χ. ἄκαυστα 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Meteorologica” 387a22; χ. ξύλα [prev. work] 374a5, +others)]; of various things, χλωραὶ ἐέρσαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 8.40)]; τυρὸς χ. fresh cheese, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 559, 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 23.6)]; of fish, fresh, not salted, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 7.309b)]; of fruit, fresh picked, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (Inscriptiones Graecae 22.1013.23, 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 1.113.)]
III.2 metaphorically, fresh, blooming, χλωρόν τε καὶ βλέποντα Trag. cited in [Refs 5th c.AD+ (5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus)] (perhaps to be read in [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 677 for καὶ ζῶντα καὶ β.))]; λειμὼν ἄνθεσι (sed perhaps ἔρνεσι) θάλλων χλωροῖς [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 1297 (Lyric poetry); χλωρὸν γόνυ 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 14.70; χ. αἷαμα)]fresh, living, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 1055, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 127 (_anapaest meter_))]; χ. δάκρυ fresh, bursting tear, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 906, compare 922, “Hel.” 1189; χλωρὰ δακρύων ἄχνα 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 847 (Lyric poetry); οἴνου χλωραὶ σταγόνες)]sparkling, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Cyclops” 67 (Lyric poetry).)]
III.3 metaphorically, unripe, χ. καὶ ἄναιμα πράγματα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Gorgias Rhetor et Sophista “fragment” 16. (Not _contraction_ from χλοερός but _cognate_ with it and χλόη.))]
greenish-yellow, pale green, χλωραὶ ῥῶπες [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 16.47; ὄρος.. χλωρόν “hymnus ad Apollinem” 223; χλωραὶ ἐλάται 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “Fragmenta.” 167, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 38; χλωραῖς ὑπὸ βάσσαις 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 673 (Lyric poetry); χλωρὰν ἀν᾽ ὕλην 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 17; δόνακι χλωρὸν Εὐρώταν [prev. author] “Hel.” 349 (Lyric poetry), compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 1132 (Lyric poetry))]; also in Prose, σίτου ἔτι χ. ὄντος [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.6; τὰ φυόμενα χ. τὸ πρῶτον εἶναι 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Sensu” 78)]; ἡ χ. the green plaster, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD: Andromachus Poeta Medicus cited in 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 13.470)]; χλωρὸς λίθος, ={σμάραγδος}, [Refs (“PHolm.” 5.10)]; of sea-water, poetical cited in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.767f(compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 1084))]; of other water, [Refs 5th c.AD+ (“Anthologia Graeca” 9.669.3 (5th-6th c.AD: Marianus Epigrammaticus): χλωρά, ἡ,)] green paint, as a stage-property to represent a river in scenery, Papyrus in [Refs 5th c.AD+ (“Eos.” 32.30 (5th-6th c.AD).)]
2 yellow, μέλι χ. [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.631, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.234)]; ἀμφὶ χλωρὰν ψάμαθον on the yellow sand, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 1064)]; ᾠοῦ τὸ χ. yolk of egg, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD: Zopyrus Medicus cited in 4th c.AD: Oribasius Medicus 14.61.1.)]
II generally, pale, pallid, χλωρὸς ἀδάμας [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Scutum Herculis” 231: most frequently,)]
II.2 of persons, pale, χλωρὸς ὑπαὶ δείους [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 10.376, 15.4)]; χ. Ἀχλύς (personified) [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Scutum Herculis” 265; χλωροτέρα.. ποίας ἔμμι 7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica 2.14)]; hence as an epithet of fear, χλωρὸν δέος [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 7.479, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 11.43, etc.; χλωρῷ δείματι 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 566 (Lyric poetry), compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 599 (Lyric poetry))]: in in Medicine texts writers, yellow, biliouslooking, ὀφθαλμοὶ -ότεροι see reading in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἀρχαίης ἰητρικῇς” 10; χρῶμα χ. ἴσχειν [prev. author] “Prog.” 24; σῶμα.. οὔτε χ. ἀλλ᾽ ὑπέρυθρον 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.49)]; also χ. πτύελος, οὖρον, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “προγνωστικόν” 14, “VM” 10 (_comparative_).)]
III without regard to colour, green, i. e. fresh, opposed to dry, especially of wood, ῥόπαλον.. χλωρὸν ἐλαΐνεον of green olive-wood, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.320, compare 379)]; opposed to αὖος, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 743; τὰ σφόδρα χ. ἄκαυστα 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Meteorologica” 387a22; χ. ξύλα [prev. work] 374a5, +others)]; of various things, χλωραὶ ἐέρσαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 8.40)]; τυρὸς χ. fresh cheese, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 559, 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 23.6)]; of fish, fresh, not salted, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 7.309b)]; of fruit, fresh picked, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (Inscriptiones Graecae 22.1013.23, 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 1.113.)]
III.2 metaphorically, fresh, blooming, χλωρόν τε καὶ βλέποντα Trag. cited in [Refs 5th c.AD+ (5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus)] (perhaps to be read in [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 677 for καὶ ζῶντα καὶ β.))]; λειμὼν ἄνθεσι (sed perhaps ἔρνεσι) θάλλων χλωροῖς [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 1297 (Lyric poetry); χλωρὸν γόνυ 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 14.70; χ. αἷαμα)]fresh, living, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 1055, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 127 (_anapaest meter_))]; χ. δάκρυ fresh, bursting tear, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 906, compare 922, “Hel.” 1189; χλωρὰ δακρύων ἄχνα 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 847 (Lyric poetry); οἴνου χλωραὶ σταγόνες)]sparkling, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Cyclops” 67 (Lyric poetry).)]
III.3 metaphorically, unripe, χ. καὶ ἄναιμα πράγματα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Gorgias Rhetor et Sophista “fragment” 16. (Not _contraction_ from χλοερός but _cognate_ with it and χλόη.))]