יְרַקְרַק
pale green
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Adjective
- A word that describes or qualifies a noun.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
- Singular
- One.
1 distinct verse where H3422 appears in the Construct state, across 1 book. 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 Hebrew 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 Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Psalms 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 Hebrew adjective ירקרק centers on the idea of “pale green.” A scarce word — 3 verses in all of the Hebrew Bible. The word gravitates to Leviticus (67%), then Psalms. Debuting at Leviticus 13:49, it then recurs through the corpus. Sharing its root, it stands alongside ירק, ירק and ירקון. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H3422 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 3
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 3 distinct verses.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #4,179
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,179 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 3 occurrences in the concordance →
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 3 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 2 verses · 67%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 33%
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: Be greenish 1×, Greenish 1×, Yellow 1×
- American Standard Version: Be greenish 1×, Greenish 1×, Yellow 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Consists of green 1×, Feathers 1×, Green 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Greenish 1×, Greenness of 1×, Yellowish green 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H3422 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H3422 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H3422 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H3422 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB 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.
- greenish, pale green, greenish-yellow
Word origin
(Sta§ 156, 234) adj. greenish, palegreen (cf. Assyrian raḳraḳḳu, ZimBP 37)—Lv 13:49 ψ 68:14; fpl. יְרַקְרַקּוֹת Lv 14:37;—of plague spots Lv 13:49; 14:37; as subst., ψ 68:14 the green-shim-mering (Che) of gold.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from ירק (yereq) (H3418) — greenery.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
יְרַקְרַק
- preced. wds.) pale-colored, greenish. Tosef. Neg. I, 5; Y. Succ. III, 53ᵈ איזהו י׳ שבירוקים which of the green colors is called y’rakrak? Answ … the color of wax &c.—Sifra Thazr. Par. 5, ch. XIV (ref. to Lev. XIII, 49; XIV, 37) י׳ ירוק שבירוקים y. means the palest of the pale (green) colors. Neg. XI, 4; Tosef. ib. l. c. י׳ שבירוקים the palest of &c. Tosef. ib. V, 5; a. fr.—Fem. יְרַקְרוֹקֶת. Meg. 13ᵃ אסתר י׳ היתה (Ms. O. ירקרקות היתה כהדסה) Esther was of a greenish complexion (like a myrtle). e.g. Leviticus 13:49
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 3 distinct written forms H3422 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| בִּֽ/ירַקְרַ֥ק | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Psalms 68:13 | 1 |
| יְרַקְרַ֣ק | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Leviticus 13:49 | 1 |
| יְרַקְרַקֹּ֔ת | Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Plural, Absolute | Leviticus 14:37 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H3422, 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.
Derives from
Shares the same root
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 3 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 3 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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