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Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words

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1: χόρτος

(Strong's #5528 — Noun Masculine — chortos — khor'-tos )

primarily denoted "a feeding enclosure" (whence Latin hortus, "a garden;" Eng., "yard," and "garden"); then, "food," especially grass for feeding cattle; it is translated "grass" in Matthew 6:30; 14:19; Mark 6:39 (where "the green grass" is the first evidence of early spring); Luke 12:28; John 6:10; James 1:10,11; 1 Peter 1:24; Revelation 8:7; 9:4; "blade" in Matthew 13:26; Mark 4:28; "hay" in 1 Corinthians 3:12 , used figuratively. In Palestine or Syria there are 90 genera and 243 species of grass.

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Vines, W. E., M. A. Entry for 'Grass'. Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​ved/​g/grass.html. 1940.
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