noun · feminine
rafisas
Strong’sG4476
a needle
stem rafis-2 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.
* ῥαφίς, -ίδος, ἡ
(ῥάπτω, to sew),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4476 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidhraf-ece'
perhaps rather akin to the base of G4474 through the idea of puncturing); a needle
Fromfrom a primary ῥάπτω (to sew;
King Jamesneedle.
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
Doric dialect ῥᾰπίς Refs 5th c.BC+, ίδος, ἡ, (ῥάπτω) needle, Refs 5th c.BC+; διὰ τρυπήματος (variant{τρήματος}) ῥαφίδος διελθεῖν (variant{εἰσελθεῖν}) NT+2nd c.AD+
II garfish, Refs 5th 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 | rafisas | rafisais |
| object accusative | rafisan | rafisain |
| direct address vocative | rafisar | rafisair |
| of, belonging to genitive | rafisau2×ῥαφίδος | rafisaiu |
| to, for dative | rafisa | rafisai |
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
rafisa 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.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
rafisau“needle”of, belonging togenitive singular2×
Matthew 19:24… vi, eukopoterem atō kamēlan dia trupēmeu rafisau eiserchara ē plousion eis tan basileian …… pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to …
Mark 10:25… atō kamēlan dia tau trumaliau tau rafisau dierchara ē plousion eis tan basileian …… pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to …