ἔδαφος
édaphos · G1475 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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ground
The surface of the earth
ExamplesActs 22:7 and I fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to me, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me?’
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- εἰςto 2
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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Near synonyms 1 word
- γῆ gē · G1093 · earth, world, land
- ἔδαφος specifically denotes the ground as a foundation or surface (bottom); γῆ is the broader, more common Greek term for earth/ground/soil and can substitute for ἔδαφος in contexts referring to the ground surface.
Contrasting words 1 word
- οὐρανός ouranós · G3772 · sky, heaven
- ἔδαφος refers to the ground/earth as the lowest surface; οὐρανός refers to the heaven/sky as the upper realm. These form a genuine lexical opposition as 'ground' vs. 'sky/heaven' in spatial orientation.
In the other Testament 3 words
- אֲדָמָה ʼădâmâh · H127 · ground, earth, land
- ἔδαφος refers to the ground/soil as a surface or base; אֲדָמָה is the standard Hebrew term for soil, ground, earth as a material substance. Both refer to the earth's surface and are natural translation equivalents.
- אֶרֶץ ʼerets · H776 · earth, ground, land
- ἔδαφος denotes the ground as a foundation or surface; אֶרֶץ is the most common Hebrew word for earth/land/ground and would be a natural translation equivalent when referring to the ground surface.
- עָפָר ʻâphâr · H6083 · dirt, dust, powder
- ἔδαφος refers to ground/soil as a basis; עָפָר emphasizes the dusty, powdery nature of dry earth/ground. Close translation equivalent when the ground surface is in view.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Ground1.44
- In Acts 22:7, Paul recounts that he fell to the ground and heard a voice on the road to Damascus, this noun naming the surface of the earth on which one stands or falls.
Word family 18 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἐδαφεος (ἐδάφους), τό, bottom, base, ground: πίπτειν εἰς τό ἔδαφος, Acts 22:7. (the…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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
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