noun · feminine
keraias
Strong’sG2762
an apostrophe
stem kerai-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books2 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
* κεραία (WH, κερέα, v. App., 151), -ας, ἡ
(< κέρας),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2762 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidker-ah'-yah
something horn-like, i.e. (specially) the apex of a Hebrew letter (figuratively, the least particle)
Fromfeminine of a presumed derivative of the base of G2768;
King Jamestittle.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
poetry κεν-αίη, ἡ, (κέρας) horn, Refs 2nd c.BC+
2 antennae of the crayfish or of insects, Refs 4th c.BC+
II anything projecting like a horn: hence,
II.1 yard-arm, Refs 5th c.BC+, etc.; κ. καθελέσθαι, ὑφιέναι, i.e.lower sail, Refs 2nd c.BC+
II.1.b projecting beam of a crane, etc., Refs 5th c.BC+
II.1.c projecting parts of the hucklebone, Refs 4th c.BC+
II.1.d branching stake of wood, used as a pale in a palisade, Refs 2nd c.BC+
II.1.e horns of the ancilia, Refs 1st c.AD+
II.2 plural, horns of the moon, Refs 4th c.BC+
II.3 in writing, apex of a letter, NT+4th c.BC+; διὰ πάσης κ. διῆκον showing itself in every word of a speech, Refs 1st c.BC+
II.4 leg of a pair of compasses, Refs 2nd c.AD+
II.5 projecting spur of a mountain, Refs 1st c.AD+; of the horns of Europe and Africa at the Straits of Gibraltar, Refs 6th c.AD+; arms of a harbour, Refs 2nd c.AD+
II.6 ={κέρας} see Refs, wing of an army, Refs 3rd c.AD+
II.7 plural, supposed teat-like projections inside the womb, Refs; but the Fallopian tubes, Refs 2nd c.AD+
III bow made of horn, Refs 6th c.AD+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | keraias1×κεραία | keraiais |
| object accusative | keraian1×κεραίαν | keraiain |
| direct address vocative | keraiar | keraiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | keraiau | keraiaiu |
| to, for dative | keraia | keraiai |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
keraia is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
keraias“stroke of a letter”subjectnominative singular1×
Matthew 5:18“stroke of a letter”… tas gēas, iōtem henem ē henas keraias ouk mē parerchateia apo tou nomou, …… heaven and earth pass away, not a single jot, not a stroke of a pen, will disappear from the Law until everything …
keraian“stroke of a letter”objectaccusative singular1×
Luke 16:17“stroke of a letter”… gēan parerchara ē tou nomou henan keraian piptara.… heaven and earth to pass away than for a single stroke of a pen to drop out of the Law.