greenness
noun
In Jewish tradition
Job's friend uses the image of a plant that looks fresh yet withers first, like the godless.
Interpretation. Tradition reads it as a picture of the wicked's seeming success, which cannot last.
Meaning
The state of being fresh and green, as young plants are. tree →
Examples
- Whilst it is yet in its greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb. (Writings JOB.8.12, JPS 1917) tree →
Note
A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.
On Mova
- Trees and pragmatics of «greenness» in the Judaism dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
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