יֶרֶק yereq

Meaning

properly, pallor, i.e. hence, the yellowish green of young and sickly vegetation; concretely, verdure, i.e. grass or vegetation

In the King James Version: grass, green (thing).

Derivation: from H3417 (יָרָק) (in the sense of vacuity of color);

Where it is used

• Genesis 1:30 And to every beast of the earth and every bird of the air and every creature that crawls upon the earth—everything that has the breath of life in it—I have given every green plant for food.” And it was so.
• Genesis 9:3 Everything that lives and moves will be food for you; just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you all things.
• Exodus 10:15 They covered the face of all the land until it was black, and they consumed all the plants on the ground and all the fruit on the trees that the hail had left behind. Nothing green was left on any tree or plant in all the land of Egypt.
• Numbers 22:4 So the Moabites said to the elders of Midian, “This horde will devour everything around us, as an ox licks up the grass of the field.” Since Balak son of Zippor was king of Moab at that time,
• Psalms 37:2 For they wither quickly like grass and wilt like tender plants.
• Isaiah 15:6 The waters of Nimrim are dried up, and the grass is withered; the vegetation is gone, and the greenery is no more.