Greek noun (masculine) · G5528
χόρτος
chortoskhor'-tos
an enclosure, a feeding place (Hom.).; food, esp. for cattle
15 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: chórtos
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G5528is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 8 of 27New Testament books
- 4spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G5528
a "court" or "garden", i.e. (by implication, of pasture) herbage or vegetation
The King James renders it: blade, grass, hay.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
chortos is rendered "an enclosure, a feeding place (Hom.).; food, esp. for cattle". It stands 15 times in the Greek text, across eight books.
- Three of the uses stand in Matthew, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "an enclosure, a feeding place (Hom.).".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 6:30If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?
Matthew 6:30χόρτον
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
The word stands in eight of the 27 New Testament books.
What the word means
The word carries two meanings: an enclosure, a feeding place (Hom.)., and food, esp. for cattle.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| an enclosure, a feeding place (Hom.). | Tagged aslisted under the table | WhereMatthew 6:30If that is how God clothes the grass of the field… |
| food, esp. for cattle | Tagged as
| WhereMatthew 13:26When the wheat sprouted and bore grain, then the weeds also appeared. |
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 15, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- χόρτον6
- χόρτος5
- χόρτου3
- χόρτῳ1
The grammar of each form
- noun · accusative (object) · masculine singular6N-ASM
- noun · nominative (subject) · masculine singular5N-NSM
- noun · genitive (“of”) · masculine singular3N-GSM
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · masculine singular1N-DSM
Matthew
three uses
If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?
- χόρτονchortonnoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: grass
When the wheat sprouted and bore grain, then the weeds also appeared.
- χόρτοςchortosnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: plants
And He directed the crowds to sit down on the grass. Taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven, He spoke a blessing. Then He broke the loaves and gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the people.
- χόρτουchortounoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine singulartagged: grass
Mark
two uses
All by itself the earth produces a crop—first the stalk, then the head, then grain that ripens within.
- χόρτονchortonnoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: a plant
Then Jesus directed them to have the people sit in groups on the green grass.
- χόρτῳchortonoun · dative (“to / for”) · masculine singulartagged: grass
Luke
one use
If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, how much more will He clothe you, O you of little faith!
- χόρτονchortonnoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: grass
John
one use
“Have the people sit down,” Jesus said. Now there was plenty of grass in that place, so the men sat down, about five thousand of them.
- χόρτοςchortosnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: grass
1 Corinthians
one use
If anyone builds on this foundation using gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, or straw,
- χόρτονchortonnoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: hay
James
two uses
But the one who is rich should exult in his low position, because he will pass away like a flower of the field.
- χόρτουchortounoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine singulartagged: of grass
For the sun rises with scorching heat and withers the plant; its flower falls and its beauty is lost. So too, the rich man will fade away in the midst of his pursuits.
- χόρτονchortonnoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: grass
1 Peter
three uses
For, “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall,
- χόρτοςchortosnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: grass
- χόρτουchortounoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine singulartagged: of grass
- χόρτοςchortosnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: grass
Revelation
two uses
Then the first angel sounded his trumpet, and hail and fire mixed with blood were hurled down upon the earth. A third of the earth was burned up, along with a third of the trees and all the green grass.
- χόρτοςchortosnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: grass
They were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any plant or tree, but only those who did not have the seal of God on their foreheads.
- χόρτονchortonnoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: grass
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.