noun · feminine
plakas
Strong’sG4109
a tablet, flat surface
stem plak-3 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.
πλάξ, -ακός, ἡ,
[in LXX for לוּחַ;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4109 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidplax
a moulding-board, i.e. flat surface ("plate", or tablet, literally or figuratively)
Fromfrom G4111;
King Jamestable.
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
anything flat and broad, especially flat land, plain, πᾶσαν ἠπείρου πλάκα Refs 4th c.BC+; Φλεγραίαν π. Refs; νυχίαν π., of Psyttaleia (perhaps μυχίαν), Refs 5th c.BC+; νεκύων πλάκα Refs 5th c.BC+; also of sea and sky, πόντου πλάξ the ocean-plain, Refs 6th c.BC+; ποντία, πελαγία π., Refs 5th c.BC+; αἰθερία πλάξ Refs 5th c.BC+; flat top of a hill, table-land, Σουνίου, Οἴτης π., Refs 5th c.BC+; ἀπ᾽ ἄκρας πυργώδους πλακός from the flat top of the towering hill, Refs 5th c.BC+
2 flat stone, tablet, ἐργώνας τᾶν πλακῶν τᾶς τομᾶς εἰς τὸν ὀχετόν Refs 3rd c.BC+; π. ἐπιγεγραμμέναι Refs 1st c.AD+; of the LXX+NT+2nd c.AD+; tombstone, Refs: plural, slabs of marble, Chor.p.89 Refs 5th c.BC+; ὥσπερ μαρμάρου π., of ice, Refs 4th c.AD+
2.b πλάκες χρυσίου gold plates, Refs 1st c.BC+; ἡ ἐντὸς π. τῶν κογχυλίων the inner surface.., Refs 4th c.BC+
2.c ἡ π. τοῦ βαλανίου τούτου probably part of the furnace, Refs. d. plural, flakes of ἀρσενικὸν τὸ πλακῶδες, Refs 1st c.AD+
3 in plural, flaps, tail-fins of crustacea, Refs 4th c.BC+
3.b folds within certain parts of the ruminant stomach, Refs
4 κοπτῆς πλάκες,πλακοῦντες, Refs 2nd c.AD+. (Cf. Lett.plakt 'become flat'.)
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 | plakas | plakais1×πλάκες |
| object accusative | plakan | plakain |
| direct address vocative | plakar | plakair |
| of, belonging to genitive | plakau | plakaiu |
| to, for dative | plaka | plakai2×πλαξὶν |
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
plaka 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
plakais“tablets”subjectnominative plural1×
Hebrews 9:4… rabdas Aarōn tas blastarantas kai tais plakais tau diathēkau,… that had budded, and the stone tablets of the covenant.
plakai“tablets”to, fordative plural2×
2 Corinthians 3:3… alla pneume theou zōarōntou, ouk en plakai lithinai alla en plakai kardiai sarkinai.… of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of …
2 Corinthians 3:3… ouk en plakai lithinai alla en plakai kardiai sarkinai.… on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.