G4073 – petra – πέτρα rock

Strong’s ID:
G4073
Greek Word:
πέτρα
Transliteration:
petra
Pronunciation:
pet’-ra
Part of Speech:
noun feminine
Usage Count:
16
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Find “petra” in the Bible (New Testament)

Strong’s Greek Lexicon

feminine of the same as G4074; a (mass of) rock (literally or figuratively):—rock.

Owing to changes in the enumeration while in progress, there were no words left for numbers 2717 and 3203–3302, which were therefore silently dropped out of the vocabulary and references as redundant.

Thayer’s Greek Definitions

1) a rock, cliff or ledge
1a) a projecting rock, crag, rocky ground
1b) a rock, a large stone
1c) metaphorically a man like a rock, by reason of his firmness and strength of soul

Thayer’s Definitions are as edited by the Online Bible of Winterbourne, Ontario. They removed the etymology, cross-references, and Greek phrases and changed some of Thayer’s Unitarian doctrinal positions concerning the work and person of Christ.