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(ii) Ra` anan (7488) - from an unused root meaning to be green; verdant; by analogy, new; figuratively, prosperous:
The words for green normally describe vegetation of some type. It is used of pastures <Ps. 23:2>; herbage <2 Kin. 19:26>; trees in general <Deut. 12:2; Luke 23:31; Rev. 8:7>; the marriage bed (in a figurative sense, <Song 1:16>); a hypocrite compared to a papyrus plant <Job 8:16>; and grass <Mark 6:39>. A word meaning "greenish" describes plague spots <Lev. 13:49; 14:37> as well as the color of gold.
(from Nelson's Illustrated Bible Dictionary)
(Copyright (C) 1986, Thomas Nelson Publishers)
(iii) Blessings and prosperity from God.
(iv) (a) 1:16 (2:13 used 'pag' which means 'green-fig' - see FigTree.)