πεδινός
pedinós · G3977 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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level
Pertaining to being level or flat, in contrast with what is steep or uneven
ExamplesLuke 6:17 And then Jesus came down with them and stood on a level place; and there was a large crowd of His disciples, and a great multitude of the people from all Judea and Jerusalem, and the coastal region of Tyre and Sidon,
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
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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Contrasting words 1 word
- ὀρεινός oreinós · G3714 · mountainous region, hill country
- Greek adjective meaning mountainous or hilly, the direct lexical opposite of πεδινός (level/flat), contrasting mountainous terrain with level ground
In the other Testament 1 word
- מִישׁוֹר mîyshôwr · H4334 · plain, plateau, tableland
- Hebrew noun for a level place or plain, the standard translation equivalent for πεδινός in LXX contexts describing flat terrain
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Level79.85
- πεδινός describes terrain that is flat rather than elevated, as Luke describes where Jesus stood to deliver His teaching: “Jesus came down with them and stood on a level place; and there was a large crowd of His disciples, and a great multitude of the people from all Judea and Jerusalem, and the coastal region of Tyre and Sidon.” (Luke 6:17)
Word family 9 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Also from the root πούς
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon πεδινῇ, πεδινον (πεδίον (a plain), πέδον (the ground)), level, plain: Lk 6:17. (Xenophon,…
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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