William Henry Green (January 27, 1824 – February 10, 1900), was an American scholar of the Hebrew language.

Green was descended in the sixth generation from Jonathan Dickinson, first president of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University).

[2] In 1868 Green refused the presidency of Princeton College; as senior professor he was long acting head of the Theological Seminary.

His Grammar of the Hebrew Language (1861, revised 1888) was a distinct improvement in method on Gesenius, Rödiger, Ewald and Nordheimer.

All his knowledge of Semitic languages he used in a conservative Higher Criticism, which is maintained in the following works: Additionally, in 1890 he published a highly influential article in Bibliotheca Sacra entitled "Primeval Chronology"[3] in which he strongly criticized Irish Archbishop James Ussher's popular chronology of the world back to Creation and its association with the King James Bible: We conclude that the Scriptures furnish no data for a chronological computation prior to the life of Abraham; and that the Mosaic records do not fix and were not intended to fix the precise date either of the Flood or of the creation of the world.He was the scholarly leader of the orthodox wing of American Presbyterianism, and was the moderator of the General Assembly of 1891.