noun · feminine
pternas
Strong’sG4418
the heel
stem ptern-once in the New Testament1 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.
πτέρνα, -ης, ἡ,
[in LXX for עָקֵב;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4418 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidpter'-nah
the heel (figuratively)
Fromof uncertain derivation;
King Jamesheel.
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
Refs 5th c.BC+, later πτέρνᾰ LXX+3rd c.BC+, ἡ, heel, Refs 8th c.BC+; under part of the heel, Refs 4th c.BC+; heel-bone, Refs 4th c.BC+
2 hoof, LXX
3 heel of a shoe, Refs 3rd c.BC+
4 footstep, LXX
II metaphorically, foot or lower part of anything, πύργων Refs 3rd c.BC+; of a mast, Refs 2nd c.BC+ (but, waist of a ship, Refs 2nd c.BC+
II.2 butt-end of the ἀγκών of a torsion-engine, Refs 3rd c.BC+; of a surgical machine, Refs 4th c.AD+
III ham (mock Epicism formed from Latin perna), Refs; falsa lectio for{πέρνα} in Refs 6th 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 nominative | pternas | pternais |
| object accusative | pternan1×πτέρναν | pternain |
| direct address vocative | pternar | pternair |
| of, belonging to genitive | pternau | pternaiu |
| to, for dative | pterna | pternai |
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
pterna 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.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
pternan“heel”objectaccusative singular1×
John 13:18… ton arton eparata epi min tan pternan autou.… My bread has lifted up his heel against Me.’