adjective
plateias
Strong’sG4113
a street
stem platei-7 times in the New Testamentin 4 of 27 books3 of 26 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.
πλατεία, -ας, ἡ, v.s. πλατύς.
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4113 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidplat-i'-ah
a wide "plat" or "place", i.e. open square
Fromfeminine of G4116;
King Jamesstreet.
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 feminine πλατέα Refs 5th c.BC+:—wide, broad, τελαμών Refs 8th c.BC+; αἰπόλια πλατέ᾽ αἰγῶν broad herds, i.e. large or spread over a wide space,Refs 8th c.BC+; τὴν ὁδὸν τὴν π. Refs 5th c.BC+; similarly, π. ὁδὸς τῶν θεῶν Refs 5th c.BC+
2 flat, level, χῶρος π. καὶ πολλός Refs 5th c.BC+; κάρυα τὰ π., i.e. chestnuts, Refs 5th c.BC+; σελάχη, ἰχθύες, Refs 5th c.BC+
3 of a man, broad-shouldered, οὐ γὰρ οἱ πλατεῖς, οὐδ᾽ εὐρύνωτοι Refs 5th c.BC+
4 of seasons, far advanced, ἔαρ Procl.ad Refs 8th c.BC+
5 metaphorically, π. ὅρκος a broad strong oath, Refs 5th c.BC+; κατάγελως π. flat (i.e. downright) mockery, Refs 5th c.BC+; π. φλήναφος Amelius cited in Refs 3rd c.AD+; but πλατὺ γελάσαι, καταγελᾶν, laugh loud and rudely, Refs 5th c.BC+
6 broad, of pronunciation, π. λέξις Refs 4th c.BC+
7 diffuse, λέξις Refs 1st c.BC+ adverb -έωςRefs in fuller detail, διαλεξόμεθα Refs 2nd c.AD+; -υτέρως Tz.ad Refs 3rd c.BC+: superlative -υτάτωςRefs
7.b adverb -έως loosely, opposed to ἀκριβῶς, Refs 5th c.BC+
8 widespread, frequent, χρῆσις Refs 4th c.AD+
9 π. δρόμος, = Latin cursus clabularis, Refs 6th c.AD+
II substantive πλατεῖα (i.e. ὁδός,Refs 2nd c.AD+, ἡ, street, NT+4th c.BC+; ἡ ἱερωτάτη π. Refs
II.b (i.e. χείρ) flat of the hand, ταῖσι πλατείαις τυπτόμενος Refs 5th c.BC+
II.c a kind of dish or cup, Refs 3rd c.BC+
II.d broad stripe or border, Refs 4th c.BC+
III salt, brackish, πλατυτέροισι ἐχρέωντο τοῖσι πόμασι Refs 5th c.BC+; πλατέα or πλατύτερα ὕδατα, Refs 8th c.BC+, is not the salt, but the broad, Hellespont,Refs 4th c.BC+. (Cf. Sanskrit pṛthú- 'broad', práthati 'spread out', etc. But in signification Refspa[tnull]u- 'sharp', 'pungent', tripa[tnull]u 'the three saline substances'.)
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 | masculine singular | feminine singular | neuter singular | masculine plural | feminine plural | neuter plural |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | plateios | plateias2×πλατεῖα | plateiem | plateiois | plateiais | plateieim |
| object accusative | plateion | plateian | plateioin | plateiain3×πλατείας | ||
| direct address vocative | plateior | plateiar | plateioir | plateiair | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | plateiou | plateiau2×πλατείας | plateieu | plateioiu | plateiaiu | plateieiu |
| to, for dative | plateio | plateia | plateie | plateioi | plateiai | plateiei |
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
platei 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.
7 occurrences, every one of them listed
plateias“wide”subjectnominative singular2×
Matthew 7:13Eiserchavar dia tau stenau pulau; hoti plateias tas pulas kai euruchōras tas hodas …Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is …
Revelation 21:21… ate ek henou margaritou; kai tas plateias tau polau chrusiem katharem hōs hualos …… of a single pearl. The main street of the city was pure gold …
plateiau“street”of, belonging togenitive singular2×
Revelation 11:8kai tem ptōmem autoiu epi tau plateiau tau polau tau megau, hotinas kalotō …Their bodies will lie in the street of the great city — figuratively called …
Revelation 22:2en mese tau plateiau autau; kai tou potamou enteuthen kai …down the middle of the main street of the city. On either side …
plateiain“streets”objectaccusative plural3×
Luke 10:10… mē decholeiō vin, exercharantois eis tain plateiain autau legavar;… not welcome you, go into the streets and declare,
Luke 14:21… doulo autou; Exerchasar tacheōs eis tain plateiain kai rumain tau polau, kai toin …… servant, ‘Go out quickly into the streets and alleys of the city, and …
Acts 5:15hōste kai eis tain plateiain ekferarō toin asthenoin kai titharō epi …… people brought the sick into the streets and laid them on cots and …