ΠΕΤΡΑ, πετρα
PETRA, petra
Sounds Like: PEH-trah
Translations: rock, a rock, stone, 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 a feminine noun and can be used to describe a literal geological formation or metaphorically as a foundation or source of strength. It is often used in contexts referring to solid ground or a place of refuge.
Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Feminine
Strong’s number: G4073 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Barnabus
- Letter of Barnabas — 11:3
Codex Sinaiticus
- Numbers — 24:21
- Psalms — 26:5, 60:3, 103:18
- Job — 14:8, 14:18, 22:24
- Isaiah — 5:28, 16:1, 22:16, 31:9, 48:21
- Jeremiah — 23:29
- Matthew — 16:18, 27:60
- 1 Corinthians — 10:4
- Epistle of Barnabas — 11:3
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
Josephus' The Jewish War
Justin Martyr
- Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 113:6
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Numbers — 24:21
- Judges — 20:47, 21:13
- 1 Samuel — 23:28
- 2 Samuel — 22:2
- Psalms — 26:5, 60:3, 103:18
- Job — 14:8, 14:18, 22:24
- Isaiah — 5:28, 16:1, 22:16, 31:9, 48:21
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
- 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
- ΠΕΤΡΑΣ — of rock, of a rock, of stone, of 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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