green
part of speech
adjective (green, greener, greenest); noun (green, greens)
meaning for a pupil
1) Green is the colour of grass and leaves. tree →
2) Green means not ripe yet: «green bananas». tree →
3) Green means good for nature: «green energy». tree →
4) A green is a grassy area: a village green. tree →
5) Greens are green vegetables. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Green herbs are given to humans for food, as in the permission to eat everything after the flood. Interpretation: Sefer Yetzirah reads the void as a green line around the universe. Green is also a color the rabbis linked to the life of plants. In the primary lessons: a colour that tells one kind of a thing from another: green apples, green peaches, green marbles; in science and art, blue and yellow make green; plants are green because of chlorophyll; phrases: «green light» (go), «green with envy», «go green», «eat your greens»
examples
- Every moving thing that liveth shall be for food for you; as the green herb have I given you all. (Torah GEN.9.3, JPS 1917) tree →
- is a green line that surrounds the whole universe, and chaos (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) tree →
- Void is a green line that sur- rounds the whole universe, and chaos refers to viscous stones, (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) tree →
- He is green before the sun, and his shoots go forth over his garden. (Writings JOB.8.16, JPS 1917) tree →
- For they shall soon wither like the grass, and fade as the green herb. (Writings PSA.37.2, JPS 1917) tree →
- The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searcheth after every green thing. (Writings JOB.39.8, JPS 1917) tree →
- There are 7 red peaches and 15 green peaches. tree →
- How many green apples are in the basket? tree →
- How many more green peaches than red? tree →
- She has 12 green marbles. tree →
- The grass is green after the rain. tree →
- Wait for the green man before you cross. tree →
- Blue and yellow make green. tree →
- Eat your greens; they are good for you. tree →
note
A kind word, not a quantity. It picks which group the number belongs to. Trap: «how many more green than red» is a difference; «how many peaches» adds all colours. Safety: cross the road only when the green man shows.
In the corpora
- Every moving thing that liveth shall be for food for you; as the green herb have I given you all.
- He maketh me to lie down in green pastures; He leadeth me beside the still waters.
- For they shall soon wither like the grass, and fade as the green herb.
- He is green before the sun, and his shoots go forth over his garden.
- The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searcheth after every green thing.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «green» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.