I know English is English and Greek isn't English, but I'm wondering (anyway) if it might not be related somehow to what Americans mean by a green horse. My cousins used to say things like, "Watch it. That horse is green." Not knowing jack about horses, I had to ask the obvious question.
A green horse is untrained, wild, not-yet broken.
I'd get into the etymology of the word, but I don't know how, since that's not the usual definition of green.
A green horse is untrained, wild, not-yet broken.
I'd get into the etymology of the word, but I don't know how, since that's not the usual definition of green.
i'm having trouble reasoning out "Death" riding an untrained horse.
and, the other horses are all described with colors that seem to be, well, colors.
colors that aren't necessarily natural horsecoat colors. in verse 4, the word describing the color of the "red" horse is "pyrros" which has a pretty clear meaning of being the color of flames - personally i think saying a chestnut or even blood-bay horse is the color of flames is quite a bit of a stretch.
i don't doubt the colors are meant to have meaning. i also don't doubt that "green" has a meaning, too, but my intuition is that chloros probably didn't have the connotation of "noob" that "green" has nowadays..
i'd love to hear that argument tho! wouldn't it be something if it's true?
haha "death is a noob - the Bible says so, Rev. 6:8"