H3422 H3422
greenish, yellowish-green, pale green (describing disease spots)
An adjective describing a greenish or yellowish-green color, used exclusively for diagnosing skin disease or house mold in Leviticus. The term appears in Leviticus 13:49 describing greenish spots in a garment (signs of contaminating mildew), and 14:37 (feminine plural form) describing greenish depressions in house walls. Psalm 68:13 uses it metaphorically for the 'green shimmering of gold'—the gleaming, golden-green iridescence of precious metal or possibly the greenish tint of electrum (gold-silver alloy). The Akkadian cognate raḳraḳḳu confirms the color designation. This is diagnostic vocabulary—colors that signal impurity requiring priestly evaluation.
Senses
1. sense 1 — A pale greenish or yellowish-green hue, particularly as a diagnostic sign of contamination. In the priestly purity codes, greenish spots indicated potentially spreading impurity requiring quarantine and priestly scrutiny. The Psalm's metaphorical use for gold's shimmering suggests a bright, lustrous green-gold rather than sickly pallor. Cross-linguistic glosses vary between 'greenish', 'verdoso/verdâtre' (greenish), and compounds like 'amarillo-verdoso' (greenish-yellow), capturing the color's position between yellow and green. 3×
AR["بِ-اصْفِرارِ", "ضَارِبَةً-إِلَى-الْخُضْرَةِ", "ضَارِبَةٌ-إِلَى-الْخُضْرَةِ"]·ben["সবুজাভ", "হলুদে-সবুজে"]·DE["greenish", "mit-grünen-"]·EN["greenish", "with-green-"]·FR["dans-jaunâtre", "verdâtre"]·heb["ב-ירקרק", "ירקרק", "ירקרקת"]·HI["में-चमड़े", "हरे-पीले"]·ID["dengan-kehijauan", "kehijau-hijauan"]·IT["[בירקרק]", "greenish"]·jav["ijo-ijo", "mawi-ijo-kuning"]·KO["노란-녹색-의", "녹색띄는", "푸르스름한"]·PT["com-brilho-de", "esverdeada", "esverdeadas"]·RU["в-жёлто-зелёном", "зеленоватое", "зеленоватые"]·ES["con-amarillo-verdoso-de", "verdosa", "verdosas"]·SW["kijani-kibichi", "kwa-dhahabu"]·TR["sarımıtırak-yeşil-", "yeşilimsi"]·urd["بِ-سبزی-مائل", "زردی-مائل"]
Related Senses
H3754 1. vineyard, cultivated grape plot (92×)H0730 1. cedar tree or wood (73×)H1612 1. vine, grapevine (55×)H3293a 1. forest, wood, thicket (55×)H5560 1. fine flour (53×)H5193 1. plant vegetation (48×)H2232 1. sow seed, plant crops (41×)H1715 1. grain, cereal crop (40×)H7114b 1. reap, harvest grain (36×)H2132 1. olive tree (34×)H8184 1. barley (34×)H2406 1. wheat (grain crop) (30×)H7070 1. reed, cane (plant) (30×)H7848 1. acacia (28×)H8328 1. root of a plant (28×)H8384 1. fig tree (25×)H5488 1. reeds, rushes (in 'Sea of Reeds') (24×)G0290 1. a vineyard (23×)G2325 1. reap, harvest a crop (21×)G4687 1. sow seed, plant (21×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† יְרַקְרַק (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.