This adjective describes something that is fresh, new, or recently created—not yet aged, decomposed, or stale. In classical Greek it applied to fresh meat (as opposed to salted), newly drawn water, recent crops, and even freshly deceased bodies that had not yet decomposed. Hebrews employs this word metaphorically to describe the 'new and living way' that Jesus inaugurated through the curtain of his flesh. The multilingual glosses uniformly translate this as 'new' (Spanish 'nuevo', French 'nouveau', German 'neu'), emphasizing the freshness and recency of Christ's inaugurated access to God.