forest

Greek Noun Female

ὕλη, -ης, ἡ [in LXX: Job.19:29 Job.38:40 (סֻכָּה), Psa.69:2 B.l א (יָוֵן), Isa.10:17 (שָׁמִיר), Wis.11:17 15:13, Sir.28:10, 2Ma.2:24, 4Ma.1:29 *;] 1) wood, forest, woodland (Thus, Xen, al.). 2) wood, timber, fuel (Hom, Hdt, Thuc, al.): Jas.3:5 (see Hort, Ja., 70, 104 f.). 3) = Lat. materia, esp. in Philosophy, matter (Arist. and later writers; Wis, ll. with). (AS)

forest

Greek Noun Female

ὕλη [ῡ], ἡ, forest, woodland, [NT+8th c.BC+]; ὕλα ἀεργός virgin forest, [Refs]; τὰ δένδρα καὶ ὕλη fruit-trees and forest-trees, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; not only of forest-trees, but also of copse, brushwood, undergrowth (compare ὕλημα), directly opposed to to timber-trees, [Refs 5th c.BC+]: also in plural, [Refs 4th c.BC+] II) wood cut down, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; firewood, fuel, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; brushwood, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; timber, ὕ. ναυπηγησίμη [Refs 5th c.BC+]; also, twigs for birds' nests, [Refs 4th c.BC+] III) the stuff of which a thing is made, material, (perhaps so of wood), [Refs 8th c.BC+]; rarely of other material, as metal, οἱ παρ᾽ ἄκμονι. ὕλην ἄψυχον δημιουργοῦντες [Refs 5th c.BC+]: generally, materials, [Refs 6th c.AD+] III.2) in Philosophy, matter, first in [Refs 5th c.BC+]; defined as τὸ ὑποκείμενον γενέσεως καὶ φθορᾶς δεκτικόν, [Refs]; as τὸ ἐζ οὗ γίγνεται, [Refs] in later philosophical writers, mostly opposed to to the intelligent and formative principle (νοῦς), [Refs 4th c.AD+] III.3) matter for a poem or treatise, ὕ. τραγική, ποιητικαὶ ὗλαι, [Refs 2nd c.BC+]; ἡ ὑποκειμένη ὕ. the subject-matter, [Refs 5th c.BC+] III.4) ὕ. ἰατρική materia medica, Dsc.at Title Page; so ὕλη alone, materia medica, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]; ὗλαι τῆς τέχνης [Refs 2nd c.AD+] III.4.b) ἡ μέση ὕλη the middle range of diet, [Refs 2nd c.AD+] III.5) plural, material resources, βασιλικαὶ ὗλαι [Refs 1st c.AD+] IV) sediment, [Refs 5th c.BC+] (ἀφ, δι-), ὑλώδης [Refs]; mud, slime, [Refs 2nd c.BC+]; ὕλῃ, ὕλει, and ἰλυῖ are conjecture for ὕδει in [Refs 6th c.BC+] IV.2) matter excreted from the human body, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]; phlegm, catarrh, PMed. in [Refs 3rd c.AD+]

Greek

Noun Feminine

a forest, i.e. (by implication) fuel; matter; perhaps akin to g3586 (ξύλον)