ΠΕΤΡΑΣ, πετρας
PETRAS, petras
Sounds Like: PEH-tras
Translations: of rock, of a rock, of stone, of a stone
From the root: ΠΕΤΡΑ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to a large mass of stone, a rock, or a cliff. It is often used to describe a solid foundation or a place of refuge. In the genitive case, as seen here, it indicates possession or origin, meaning 'of a rock' or 'from a rock'.
Inflection: Singular, Genitive, Feminine
Strong’s number: G4073 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
1 Enoch Greek Collection
Barnabus
- Letter of Barnabas — 11:5
Codex Sinaiticus
- Numbers — 20:8, 20:10
- Judges — 6:21
- 2 Esdras — 19:15
- Psalms — 77:16, 80:17, 140:6
- Proverbs — 30:19
- Song of Solomon — 2:14
- Job — 39:1, 39:28
- Wisdom — 11:4
- Sirach — 40:15
- Isaiah — 2:10, 2:21, 8:14, 33:16, 48:21
- Jeremiah — 4:29, 13:4, 18:14
- Mark — 15:46
- 1 Corinthians — 10:4
- Revelation — 6:15
- Epistle of Barnabas — 11:4
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 3 — 1:36, 1:38, 5:87
- Book 5 — 2:166, 8:249, 8:250, 8:283, 8:299, 8:303
- Book 6 — 1:15, 6:108, 13:281
- Book 12 — 6:231
- Book 14 — 13:362
- Book 15 — 9:331, 10:363
- Book 16 — 7:182
- Book 18 — 5:120
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Three — 7:114
- Book Four — 1:75
- Book Five — 5:55, 12:15
- Book Six — 1:60, 9:2
- Book Seven — 8:29, 8:54
Justin Martyr
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Exodus — 17:6, 33:21, 33:22
- Numbers — 20:8, 20:10
- Deuteronomy — 8:15, 32:13
- Joshua — 5:2
- Judges — 1:36, 6:21, 15:8, 15:11, 15:13
- 1 Samuel — 14:4
- 1 Kings — 19:11
- 2 Chronicles — 26:7
- Nehemiah — 9:15
- 2 Maccabees — 14:45
- Psalms — 77:16, 80:17, 140:6
- Odes — 2:13
- Proverbs — 24:54
- Song of Solomon — 2:14
- Job — 39:1, 39:28
- Wisdom — 11:4
- Sirach — 40:15
- Isaiah — 2:10, 2:21, 8:14, 33:16, 48:21
- Jeremiah — 4:29, 13:4, 18:14
- Ezekiel — 3:9
- Enoch — 22:1, 26:5
The Shepherd of Hermas — Parables
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΠΕΤΡΑ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ΗΠΕΤΡΑ — the rock, a rock
- ΠΕΤ — of rock, of a rock, of stone, of a stone
- ΠΕΤΡ — rock, a rock, stone, a stone, (of) rock, (of) stone
- ΠΕΤΡΑ — rock, a rock, stone, a stone
- ΠΕΤΡΑΙ — rocks, stones, a rock, a stone
- ΠΕΤΡΑΙΟΣ — rocky, stony, of rock, a rocky
- ΠΕΤΡΑΙΟΥΣ — rocky, stony, of rock, of stone
- ΠΕΤΡΑΙΣ — to rocks, in rocks, on rocks, with rocks, by rocks
- ΠΕΤΡΑΝ — rock, a rock, stone, a stone
- ΠΕΤΡΕΣ — of a rock, of a stone, of a large stone
- ΠΕΤΡΩ — of rocks, of the rocks
- ΠΕΤΡΩΔΗΣ — rocky, stony
- ΠΕΤΡΩΝ — of rocks, of stones
- ΤΗΝΠΕΤΡΑΝ — the rock, a rock, the stone, a stone
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