noun · feminine
pēras
Strong’sG4082
a sack, wallet
stem pēr-6 times in the New Testamentin 3 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.
** πήρα, -ας, ἡ,
[in LXX: Jth 10:5 13:10, 15*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4082 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidpay'-rah
a wallet or leather pouch for food
Fromof uncertain affinity;
King Jamesscrip.
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
Ionic dialect πήρη (πάρη [ᾰ] Refs 4th c.AD+, ἡ, leathern pouch for victuals, etc., wallet, Refs 8th c.BC+
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 | pēras | pērais |
| object accusative | pēran5×πήραν | pērain |
| direct address vocative | pērar | pērair |
| of, belonging to genitive | pērau1×πήρας | pēraiu |
| to, for dative | pēra | pērai |
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
pēra 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.
6 occurrences, every one of them listed
pēran“bag”objectaccusative singular5×
Matthew 10:10mē pēran eis hodan mēde duo chitōnoin mēde …Take no bag for the road, or second tunic …
Mark 6:8… mē rabdan monem, mē arton, mē pēran, mē eis tan zōnan chalkon,… for the journey — no bread, no bag, no money in their belts —
Luke 9:3… eis tan hodan, mēte rabdan mēte pēran mēte arton mēte arguriem, mēte ana …… He told them, “no staff, no bag, no bread, no money, no second …
Luke 10:4mē bastazavōr ballantiem, mē pēran, mē hupodēmeim, kai mēdenon kata tan …Carry no purse or bag or sandals. Do not greet anyone …
Luke 22:36… tos echarōntos ballantiem airatar, homoiōs kai pēran, kai tos mē echarōntos pōlatar tem …… should take it, and likewise a bag; and the one without a sword …
pērau“bag”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
Luke 22:35… Hote apostelama vin ater ballantieu kai pērau kai hupodēmeiu, mē tineu husterava? tois …… sent you out without purse or bag or sandals, did you lack anything …