adjective
platuas
Strong’sG4116
broad
stem platu-3 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books2 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.
πλατύς, -εῖα, -ύ,
[in LXX for רָחָב;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4116 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidplat-oos'
spread out "flat" ("plot"), i.e. broad
Fromfrom G4111;
King Jameswide.
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 | platuos | platuas | platuem | platuois | platuais | platueim |
| object accusative | platuon | platuan | platuoin | platuain | ||
| direct address vocative | platuor | platuar | platuoir | platuair | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | platuou | platuau | platueu | platuoiu | platuaiu1×πλατειῶν | platueiu |
| to, for dative | platuo | platua | platue | platuoi | platuai2×πλατείαις | platuei |
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
platu 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.
3 occurrences, every one of them listed
platuaiu“street”of, belonging togenitive plural1×
Matthew 6:5… sunagōgai kai en tai gōniai taiu platuaiu stēarēntois proseuchorō, hopōs fanileia toi anthrōpoi; …… in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men …
platuai“streets”to, fordative plural2×
Matthew 12:19… kraugazati, oude akouati tinos en tai platuai tan fōnan autou.… will hear His voice in the streets.
Luke 13:26… su kai pinana, kai en tai platuai nu didaskasa;… you, and you taught in our streets.’