G4723 – steira, steiros – στεῖρα, στείρος – barren
- Strong’s ID:
- G4723
- Greek Word:
- στεῖρα, στείρος
- Transliteration:
- steira, steiros
- Pronunciation:
- sti’-ros
- Part of Speech:
- adjective
- Usage Count:
- 4
- Search:
- Find “steira, steiros” in the Bible (New Testament)
Strong’s Greek Lexicon
a contraction from G4731 (as stiff and unnatural); “sterile”:—barren.
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) hard, stiff
1a) of men and animals
2) barren
2a) of woman who does not conceive
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.