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πλέγμα

plégma · G4117 · Greek · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. Anything which is intertwined or interlaced, either woven or braided (woven object, braided (hair))

    Examples

    1 Timothy 2:9 Likewise, I want women to adorn themselves with proper clothing, modestly and discreetly, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or expensive apparel,

How it’s used In 1 role

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1 occurrences in 1 groups

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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Semantic domains 1 entry
Woven object, braided (hair)49.28
πλέγμα names hair arranged in braids. Paul instructs women regarding modest adornment: “Likewise, I want women to adorn themselves with proper clothing, modestly and discreetly, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or expensive apparel” (1 Timothy 2:9).
Word family 4 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

πλέκω plékō · G4120 · to braid, to weave · 3×ἐμπλέκω emplékō · G1707 · to become involved · 2×ἐμπλοκή emplokḗ · G1708 · braiding · 1×πλέγμαplégma · G4117
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon πλεγματος, τό (πλέκω), what is woven, plaited, or twisted together; a web, plait, braid:…
πλεγματος, τό (πλέκω), what is woven, plaited, or twisted together; a web, plait, braid: used thus of a net, Xenophon, Cyril 1, 6, 28; of a basket, Euripides, Plato; πλέγμα βιβλινον in which the infant Moses was laid, Josephus, Antiquities 2, 9, 4; by other writings in other senses. Braided hair (Vulg.crines torti, ringlets, curls): 1 Tim 2:9 (cf. 1 Pet 3:3).

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Activities Involving Clothing and Adorning1 occurrence

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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