Fresh means new, moist, green, sweet, vigorous, or restored. Scripture applies it to oil, manna, plants, water, and renewed physical strength.
Definition
Fresh means new, moist, green, sweet, vigorous, or restored. It can describe renewed glory, oil, manna, water, plants, food, clothing, strength, or a revived condition. The precise sense depends on whether the context emphasizes newness, moisture, sweetness, or renewal.
Biblical Usage
Scripture uses fresh for oil, the taste of manna, sweet water, renewed flesh, green growth, new garments, and revived conditions. In Philippians-related usage, freshness may concern restored vigor or care, while in other passages it describes new or moist things.
Historical Background
The supplied material traces the word to terms meaning new, sap or moisture, fresh and green, sweet, and becoming fresh. The Revised Version sometimes changes older renderings such as green, moist, full, or new to “fresh.”
Historical Bible Dictionaries
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ISBE)
<p>Adj.:</p><p>The translation of hadhash, "new," "fresh" (Job 29:20, "My glory is fresh in me"); of leshadh, "sap," "moisture" (Nu 11:8, of the manna, "as the taste of fresh oil," the Revised Version, margin "cakes baked with oil"); of ra`anan, "to be fresh and green" (Ps 92:10, "fresh oil"); of glukus, "sweet" (Jas 3:12, "salt water and fresh," the Revised Version (British and American) "sweet"). Fresher is the translation of rutaphash, "to become fresh" (Job 33:25; "His flesh shall be fresher than a child's").</p><p>Revised Version has "fresh" for "green" (Ge 30:37; Le 23:14), for "moist" (Nu 6:3), for "full" (Le 2:14; 2Ki 4:42), for "new" (Jud 15:15; Mt 9:17; Mr 2:22; Lu 5:38).</p><p>W. L. Walker</p>
