noun · neuter
platem
Strong’sG4114
breadth
stem plat-4 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books1 of 6 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.
πλάτος, -ους, τό,
[in LXX chiefly for רֹחַב;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4114 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidplat'-os
width
Fromfrom G4116;
King Jamesbreadth.
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
(πλατύς)
A breadth, width, σώματος Refs 4th c.BC+ in breadth. Refs 5th c.BC+
A.b in Mathematics texts, breadth, i.e. the second dimension, ἐν μήκει καὶ π. καὶ βάθει Refs 5th c.BC+; κατὰ π., opposed to κατὰ μῆκος, κατὰ βάθος, Refs
A.2 plane surface, Refs 5th c.BC+
A.3 latitude, whether terrestrial or celestial, Refs 1st c.BC+
A.4 metaphorically, plane, ἐν τῷ ψυχικῷ π. Refs 5th c.AD+
A.5 plane of flat fish, Refs 4th c.BC+; flat of the tail, Refs; flat part of the body of the fishing-frog, Refs
A.6 extension, breadth of a subject, Refs 2nd c.AD+
A.7 ={πλάτας}, Judeich Refs
A.II metaphorically, range of variation, latitude, π. ἔχειν Refs 2nd c.AD+
A.III with Preps., ἐν πλάτει in a loose sense, broadly, Refs 2nd c.BC+; opposed to κατ᾽ ἀκρίβειαν, Refs 2nd c.AD+ which we will discuss in detail, Refs 3rd c.AD+; also ἐπὶ πλάτει Ἑλληνίζειν talk loose Greek, Refs 1st c.BC+; κατὰ πλάτος λέγεσθαι to be said loosely, Refs 3rd c.BC+
A.IV ={πλατύτης}Refs 4th c.BC+
A.V π. καρδίας, of Solomon, width of knowledge, LXX
A.VI ἀργυρίου πλάτη, ={δραχμαί}, Refs 2nd 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 or object direct | platem3×πλάτος | plateim |
| of, belonging to genitive | plateu | plateiu |
| to, for dative | plate | platei |
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
plate 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.
4 occurrences, every one of them listed
platem“width”subject or objectdirect singular3×
Ephesians 3:18“breadth”… sun pantoi toi hagioi tinem tem platem kai mēkem kai hupsem kai bathem,… power, together with all the saints, to comprehend the length and width and height and depth
Revelation 21:16… kai tem mēkem autau hosem tem platem. kai metrata tan polan to kalamo …The city lies foursquare, with its width the same as its length. And …
Revelation 21:16… dōdeka chiliadaiu; tem mēkem kai tem platem kai tem hupsem autau iseim atō.… were equal — 12,000 stadia in length and width and height.
platem1×
Revelation 20:9“breadth”kai anabainala epi tem platem tau gēau, kai kukleuala tan parembolan …And they marched across the broad expanse of the earth and surrounded the camp of the …