πλατεῖα
plateîa · G4113 · Greek · 9 occurrences
Meanings
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streets
A wide place
ExamplesActs 5:15 to such an extent that they even carried the sick out into the streets and laid them on cots and pallets, so that when Peter came by at least his shadow might fall on any of them.
In the other Testament 1 word
- רְחֹב rᵉchôb · H7339 · open place, plaza, square
- Hebrew term for broad place or street, serving as the direct semantic equivalent for Greek open square/plaza contexts in LXX rendering.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Avenue, wide street1.103
- πλατεῖα names a wide public street or square. Matthew records Jesus's warning about hypocritical prayer: “for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and on the street corners so that they will be seen by people” (Matthew 6:5, where πλατεῖα is rendered “street corners”).
Word family 8 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon πλατείας, ἡ (feminine of the adjective πλατύς, namely, ὁδός (cf. Winers Grammar, 590…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
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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