Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
be fresh
Usage: v (Palel) to be or grow luxuriant or fresh or green
Raanan means “green” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Strong's H7488 רַעֲנַן (ra`anan) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. ra`anan (rah-aw-nan') adj. 1. green 2. (figuratively) prosperous It has 20 linked Bible usages across 11 books. Visible English usage signals include green and flourishing. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
ra`anan (rah-aw-nan') adj. 1. green 2. (figuratively) prosperous [(Aramaic) corresponding to H7488] KJV: flourishing. Root(s): H7488
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be fresh
Usage: v (Palel) to be or grow luxuriant or fresh or green
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render ra`anan, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
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20 indexed usages in Old Testament.
Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree:
For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.
And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
First 20 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H7488.
Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree:
For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.
And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree:
He sacrificed also and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green.
I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.
But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God: I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever.
But my horn shalt thou exalt like the horn of an unicorn: I shall be anointed with fresh oil.
They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing;
Behold, thou art fair, my beloved, yea, pleasant: also our bed is green.
Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks?
For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree thou wanderest, playing the harlot.
The LORD said also unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done? she is gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath played the harlot.
Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against the LORD thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith the LORD.
The LORD called thy name, A green olive tree, fair, and of goodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he hath kindled fire upon it, and the branches of it are broken.
Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills.
For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.
Then shall ye know that I am the LORD, when their slain men shall be among their idols round about their altars, upon every high hill, in all the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree, and under every thick oak, the place where they did offer sweet savour to all their idols.
Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols? I have heard him, and observed him: I am like a green fir tree. From me is thy fruit found.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H7488, grouped by book.
Raanan (Strong's H7488) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "green". ra`anan (rah-aw-nan') adj. 1. green 2. (figuratively) prosperous
This page currently indexes 20 linked usages for Strong's H7488 across 11 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H7488 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as green and flourishing. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.