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noun · feminine

prasias

Greekπρασιά (prasia)

Strong’sG4237

a company formed into divisions

stem prasi-2 times in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur

Translated as

* by group* group …

What it means

** πρασιά, -ᾶς, ἡ,

[in LXX: Si 24:31*;]

a garden-bed; metaph., of ranks or orderly groups of persons: Mk 6:40.†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G4237 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidpras-ee-ah'

a garden plot, i.e. (by implication, of regular beds) a row (repeated in plural by Hebraism, to indicate an arrangement)

Fromperhaps from πράσον (a leek, and so an onion-patch);

King Jamesin ranks.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Every form

Job in the sentence caseone singularmore than one plural
subject nominativeprasiasprasiaisπρασιαὶ
object accusativeprasianprasiain
direct address vocativeprasiarprasiair
of, belonging to genitiveprasiauprasiaiu
to, for dativeprasiaprasiai

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
prasistem+agender+snruits job in the sentence case+ione · more than one number

prasia 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

2 occurrences, every one of them listed

prasiais“* group …”subjectnominative plural

Mark 6:40“* group …”kai anapiptala prasiais prasiais kata hekaton kai kata pentēkonta.So they sat down in groups of hundreds and fifties.

Mark 6:40“* by group”kai anapiptala prasiais prasiais kata hekaton kai kata pentēkonta.So they sat down in groups of hundreds and fifties.