Word

γωνία

gōnía · G1137 · Greek · 9 occurrences

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Thing

Cornerstone, keystone, capstoneFoundation12 verses

Meanings

corner

The corner of an area or construction, either an inside corner or an outside corner

Examples
Matthew 6:5 “And when you pray, you are not to be like the hypocrites; for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and on the street corners so that they will be seen by people. Truly I say to you, they have their reward in full.
Matthew 21:42 Jesus said to them, “Did you never read in the Scriptures, ‘A STONE WHICH THE BUILDERS REJECTED, THIS HAS BECOME THE CHIEF CORNERSTONE; THIS CAME ABOUT FROM THE LORD, AND IT IS MARVELOUS IN OUR EYES’?
Mark 12:10 “Have you not even read this Scripture: ‘A STONE WHICH THE BUILDERS REJECTED, THIS HAS BECOME THE CHIEF CORNERSTONE;

How it’s used In 5 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

3 occurrences in 2 groups

γῆearth 2
πλατύςwide 1

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

2 occurrences in 1 groups

τέσσαρεςfour 2

Named alongside itApposition

1 occurrences in 1 groups

ἔθνοςnation, Gentiles 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

4 occurrences in 2 groups

ἐνin 4
ἐπίon 2

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

5 occurrences in 1 groups

κεφαλήhead 5

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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In the other Testament 2 words

פִּנָּה pinnâh · H6438 · corner, cornerstone: Hebrew פִּנָּה and Greek γωνία both denote architectural corners or angles, with the Hebrew term extending to corner-adjacent structures (towers, bulwarks) that the Greek term does not typically denote, but the core corner/angle sense is directly equivalent.
מַקְצוֹעַ maqtsôwaʻ · H4740 · corner, angle: Hebrew מַקְצוֹעַ (maqtsôwaʻ, H4740) denotes a corner or turning point in architectural contexts, serving as the direct Hebrew equivalent of Greek γωνία (gōnía, G1137) in LXX translations where both terms reference structural corners or angular junctions.

Semantic domains 1 entry

Corner79.107: Used both literally and figuratively of an angular structural point, as of the hypocrites who love to pray on street corners in Matthew 6:5 and the rejected stone that becomes the chief cornerstone in Matthew 21:42, Mark 12:10, Luke 20:17, and Acts 4:11.

Word family 2 words

This word has no family of its own: these words share its root.

ἀκρογωνιαῖος akrogōniaîos · G204 · cornerstone, important stone · 2×τετράγωνος tetrágōnos · G5068 · square · 1×

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon γωνίας, ἡ (from Herodotus down), an angle, i. e. a. an external angle, corner (German…

γωνίας, ἡ (from Herodotus down), an angle, i. e.
a. an external angle, corner (German Ecke): τῶν πλατειῶν, Mt 6:5; κεφαλή γωνίας, Mt 21:42; Mk 12:10; Lk 20:17; Acts 4:11; 1 Pet 2:7 (פִּנָּה רֹאשׁ, Psalm 117:22, the head of the corner, i. e. the cornerstone (ἀκρογωνιαῖος, which see); αἱ τέσσαρες γωνίαι τῆς γῆς, the four extreme limits of the earth, Rev 7:1; Rev 20:8.
b. like German Winkel, Latinangulus, English (internal) corner, equivalent to a secret place: Acts 26:26 (so Plato, Gorgias, p. 485 d. βίον βιωναι ἐν γωνία, Epictetus diss. 2, 12, 17; (for other examples see Wetstein on Acts, the passage cited; Stallbaum on Plato, the passage cited)).

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Shapes9 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0