χόρτος
grass
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Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
See every Accusative-case word in the Greek New Testament →
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
4 distinct verses where G5528 appears in the Nominative case, across 4 books. Filtered view — show all forms. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Matthew 1 verse
John 1 verse
1 Peter 1 verse
Revelation 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
The Greek noun χορτος centers on the idea of “grass.” Its earliest occurrence is Matthew 6:30. It appears 13 verses across 8 books of the Greek New Testament, among its uncommon vocabulary. Lexicons map it across 2 senses. It clusters with χορταζω under a shared root. Dig into 13-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G5528 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 13
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 13 distinct verses.
- 8 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 8 of 27 New Testament books.
- #768
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 768 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 13 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 13 distinct verses.
- Gospels 7 verses · 54%
- Johannine 3 verses · 23%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 3 verses · 23%
- Revelation 2 verses · 15%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 8%
- Pauline corpus 1 verse · 8%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Grass 12×, Blade 2×
- American Standard Version: Grass 12×, Blade 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Grass 9×, Field 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Grass 12×, Of 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G5528 across 15 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G5528 across 15 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G5528 across 15 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G5528 across 18 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- the place where grass grows and animals graze
- grass, herbage, hay, provender
Word origin
Origin: apparently a primary word
Apparently a primary word; a court or garden that is (by implication of pasture ) herbage or vegetation : - blade grass hay.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 4 distinct written forms G5528 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| χόρτον chórton | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Masculine | Matthew 6:30 | 6 |
| χόρτος chórtos | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Matthew 13:26 | 5 |
| χόρτου chórtou | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Masculine | Matthew 14:19 | 3 |
| χόρτῳ chórtō | Noun, Dative, Singular, Masculine | Mark 6:39 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G5528, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word χορτος appears 42 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 40 verses in 10 books.
- 42
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 40
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 10 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 10 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 1:11 χόρτος
- Deuteronomy 32:2 χόρτος
- 2 Kings 19:26 χόρτος
- Job 13:25 χόρτος
- Psalms 36:2 χόρτος
- Proverbs 19:12 χόρτος
- Isaiah 15:6 χόρτος
- Jeremiah 9:21 χόρτος
- Daniel 4:8 χόρτος
- Amos 7:2 χόρτος
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G5528) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 1:11 χόρτος God said, "Let the earth put forth grass, herbs yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind, with its seed in it, on the earth," and it was so.
- Genesis 1:12 χόρτος The earth brought forth grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, with its seed in it, after their kind: and God saw that it was good.
- Genesis 1:29 χόρτος God said, "Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree, which bears fruit yielding seed. It will be your food.
- Genesis 1:30 χόρτος To every animal of the earth, and to every bird of the sky, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food." And it was so.
- Genesis 2:5 χόρτος No plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up; for Yahweh God had not caused it to rain on the earth. There was not a man to till the ground,
- Genesis 3:18 χόρτος Thorns also and thistles will it bring forth to you; and you will eat the herb of the field.
- Genesis 9:3 χόρτος Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. As the green herb, I have given everything to you.
- Deuteronomy 32:2 χόρτος My doctrine shall drop as the rain; My speech shall condense as the dew, As the small rain on the tender grass, As the showers on the herb.
- 2 Kings 19:26 χόρτος Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as grain blasted before it is grown up.
- Job 13:25 χόρτος Will you harass a driven leaf? Will you pursue the dry stubble?
- Job 40:15 χόρτος "See now, behemoth, which I made as well as you. He eats grass as an ox.
- Job 41:20 χόρτος Out of his nostrils a smoke goes, As of a boiling pot over a fire of reeds.
- Psalms 36:2 χόρτος For he flatters himself in his own eyes, Too much to detect and hate his sin.
- Psalms 71:16 χόρτος I will come with the mighty acts of the Lord Yahweh. I will make mention of your righteousness, even of yours alone.
- Psalms 91:8 χόρτος You will only look with your eyes, And see the recompense of the wicked.
- Psalms 101:5 χόρτος I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbor. I won't tolerate one who is haughty and conceited.
- Psalms 101:12 χόρτος
- Psalms 102:15 χόρτος So the nations will fear the name of Yahweh; All the kings of the earth your glory.
- Psalms 103:14 χόρτος For he knows how we are made. He remembers that we are dust.
- Psalms 104:35 χόρτος Let sinners be consumed out of the earth. Let the wicked be no more. Bless Yahweh, my soul. Praise Yah!
- Psalms 105:20 χόρτος The king sent and freed him; Even the ruler of peoples, and let him go free.
- Psalms 128:6 χόρτος Yes, may you see your children's children. Peace be upon Israel.
- Psalms 146:8 χόρτος Yahweh opens the eyes of the blind. Yahweh raises up those who are bowed down. Yahweh loves the righteous.
- Proverbs 19:12 χόρτος The king's wrath is like the roaring of a lion, But his favor is like dew on the grass.
- Proverbs 27:25 χόρτος The hay is removed, and the new growth appears, The grasses of the hills are gathered in.
- Isaiah 15:6 χόρτος For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate; for the grass is withered away, the tender grass fails, there is no green thing.
- Isaiah 32:13 χόρτος On the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yes, on all the houses of joy in the joyous city.
- Isaiah 37:27 χόρτος Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as a field [of grain] before it is grown up.
- Isaiah 40:6 χόρτος The voice of one saying, Cry. One said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the glory of it is as the flower of the field.
- Isaiah 40:7 χόρτος The grass withers, the flower fades, because the breath of Yahweh blows on it; surely the people is grass.
- Isaiah 44:4 χόρτος and they shall spring up among the grass, as willows by the watercourses.
- Isaiah 51:12 χόρτος I, even I, am he who comforts you: who are you, that you are afraid of man who shall die, and of the son of man who shall be made as grass;
- Jeremiah 9:21 χόρτος For death is come up into our windows, it is entered into our palaces; to cut off the children from outside, [and] the young men from the streets.
- Jeremiah 12:4 χόρτος How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of the whole country wither? for the wickedness of those who dwell therein, the animals are consumed, and the birds; because they said, He shall not see our latter end.
- Jeremiah 14:6 χόρτος The wild donkeys stand on the bare heights, they pant for air like jackals; their eyes fail, because there is no herbage.
- Daniel 4:8 χόρτος But at the last Daniel came in before me, whose name was Belteshazzar, according to the name of my god, and in whom is the spirit of the holy gods: and I told the dream before him, [saying],
- Daniel 4:10 χόρτος Thus were the visions of my head on my bed: I saw, and, behold, a tree in the midst of the earth; and the height of it was great.
- Daniel 4:25 χόρτος that you shall be driven from men, and your dwelling shall be with the animals of the field, and you shall be made to eat grass as oxen, and shall be wet with the dew of the sky, and seven times shall pass over you; until you know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whoever he will.
- Daniel 4:26 χόρτος Whereas they commanded to leave the stump of the roots of the tree; your kingdom shall be sure to you, after that you shall have known that the heavens do rule.
- Amos 7:2 χόρτος It happened that, when they made an end of eating the grass of the land, then I said, "Lord Yahweh, forgive, I beg you! How could Jacob stand? For he is small."
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G5528) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
