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IV.2 Viriditas: ‘greenery’

From the book The Language of Colour in the Bible

  • Carlos Santos Carretero , Marina Salvador Gimeno , Lourdes García Ureña , Emanuela Valeriani and Anna Angelini
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110767704-013
© 2022 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston
From the book
The Language of Colour in the Bible
The Language of Colour in the Bible

Chapters in this book (24)

Frontmatter
Acknowledgements
Preface
Contents
I Colour Terms: object, study and method
I.1 Understanding colour in the Bible
II The Hebrew Bible Corpus
II.1 ירק yereq and its polysemy: ‘verdure’, ‘the colour of grass in the spring’
II.2 יר קקר yǝ raqraq and its polysemy: ‘the colour of mould’, ‘the colour of gold’
II.3 ירוק yā rôq: ‘greenery’
II.4 ירקון yēr ā qôn: ‘the colour of fear’
III The Greek Bible Corpus (LXX and NT)
III.1 Χλωρός and its polysemy: ‘the colour of vegetation’, ‘the colour of death’, ‘greenness’
III.2 Χλωρότης: ‘the colour of a kind of gold’
III.3 Χλωρίζω: ‘to turn greenish’
III.4 Πράσινος: ‘stone as a colour’
IV The Latin Bible Corpus
IV.1 Viridis and its polysemy: ‘the colour of grass’, ‘the colour of the almond, poplar and plane trees’, ‘greenness’
IV.2 Viriditas: ‘greenery’
IV.3 Viror and its polysemy: ‘the colour of calamus and reeds’, ‘the colour of a type of gold’, ‘verdure’
IV.4 Vireo: ‘to show the colour of plants’
IV.5 Viresco: ‘to become the colour of a tree or the new fresh grass’
IV.6 Pallidus: ‘the colour of death’
IV.7 Pallor and its polysemy: ‘mould’, ‘the colour of a type of gold’, ‘the colour of fear’
V The language of Colour in the Bible
V.1 Conclusion
Abbreviations
Bibliography
Index of Ancient Sources
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