noun · feminine
pleuras
Strong’sG4125
the side of the body
stem pleur-5 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books1 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.
πλευρά, -ᾶς, ἡ,
[in LXX (freq. pl. as in Hom.) chiefly for צֵלָע;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4125 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidplyoo-rah'
a rib, i.e. (by extension) side
Fromof uncertain affinity;
King Jamesside.
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
={πλευρόν}, rib, rare in singular, βοὸς π. Refs 5th c.BC+: plural, ribs, Refs
2 plural, generally, side of a man or animal, ἄλλοτ᾽ ἐπὶ πλευρὰς κατακείμενος, ἄλλοτε δ᾽ αὖτε ὕπτιος Refs 8th c.BC+; of both sides, ἀνὰ πλευράς τε καὶ ὤμους Refs 8th c.BC+: singular, also, of one side, Refs 5th c.BC+; a side of beef, etc., Refs 3rd c.BC+: the plural form is variant in Refs 5th c.BC+
II side, of things and places, νηὸς πλευραί Refs 6th c.BC+; [Πακτωλοῦ] Refs 2nd c.AD+; of an army, αἱ π. τοῦ πλαισίου Refs 5th c.BC+; παρὰ π., opposed to κατὰ κεφαλήν, Refs
III in Mathematics texts, side of a triangle or other figure, Refs 5th c.BC+
III.b side of a rectangle, Refsone factor of any product, Refs 4th c.BC+
III.c side of a square of cube, and root of a square of cubic number, Refs; κυβικὴ π. cube root, Refs 3rd c.BC+
III.d generator of a cone or cylinder, Refs 3rd 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 | pleuras | pleurais |
| object accusative | pleuran5×πλευρὰν | pleurain |
| direct address vocative | pleurar | pleurair |
| of, belonging to genitive | pleurau | pleuraiu |
| to, for dative | pleura | pleurai |
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
pleura 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.
5 occurrences, every one of them listed
pleuran“side”objectaccusative singular5×
John 19:34… henos toiu stratiōtoiu loncha autou tan pleuran nussata, kai exerchata euthuos haimem kai …… one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear, and immediately blood …
John 20:20… legarantos deikata tain cheirain kai tan pleuran autoi. chairila oun tois mathētois horarantois …… showed them His hands and His side. The disciples rejoiced when they saw …
John 20:25… balameia mu tan cheiran eis tan pleuran autou, ouk mē pisteuameia.… and put my hand into His side, I will never believe.”
John 20:27… cheiran su kai balasar eis tan pleuran mu, kai mē genosōr apistos alla …… hand and put it into My side. Stop doubting and believe.”
Acts 12:7… en te oikēme; pataxarantos de tan pleuran tou Petrou egerata auton legarōntos; Anastēasar …… cell. He tapped Peter on the side and woke him up, saying, “Get …