πρηνής
prēnḗs · G4248 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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prostrate, headlong, headfirst
Pertaining to being stretched out in a position facedown and headfirst
ExamplesActs 1:18 (Now this man acquired a field with the price of his wickedness, and falling headlong, he burst open in the middle and all his intestines gushed out.
How it’s used
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Semantic domains 1 entry
- Prostrate, headlong, headfirst17.20
- The adjective describes a fall or posture that is headlong or face-forward. Luke's account of Judas's death in Acts uses this term: “(Now this man acquired a field with the price of his wickedness, and falling headlong, he burst open in the middle and all his intestines gushed out” (Acts 1:18).
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon πρηνες (allied with πρό; Vanicek, p. 484), Latinpronus, headlong: Acts 1:18. (Wis. 4:19;…
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
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