Strong G4116πλατύς
street
- Transliteration
- platus
- Pronunciation
- plat-oos'
- Morphology
- Greek Noun (Feminine) OR Greek Adjective (Feminine)
Definition
From G4111; spread out flat (plot) that is broad: - wide.
Detailed definition
πλατύς, -εῖα, -ύ
[in LXX for רָחָב;]
broad: Mat.7:13. As subst., ἡ π. (sc. ὁδός),
[in LXX chiefly for רָחָב;]
a street: Mat.6:5 12:19" (LXX), Mrk.6:56, WH, mg., Luk.10:10 13:26 14:21, Act.5:15, Rev.11:8 21:21 22:2.†
(AS)
[in LXX for רָחָב;]
broad: Mat.7:13. As subst., ἡ π. (sc. ὁδός),
[in LXX chiefly for רָחָב;]
a street: Mat.6:5 12:19" (LXX), Mrk.6:56, WH, mg., Luk.10:10 13:26 14:21, Act.5:15, Rev.11:8 21:21 22:2.†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G4116 appears in 1 verse of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- wide1
First verses
- Matthew 7:13Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:
Occurrences by book
Related words
Same identity
Detailed Greek dictionary
πλᾰτύς, εῖα, ύ,
Ionic dialect feminine πλατέα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.156: _accusative_ _plural_ _feminine_ πλατέας “PMag.Par.” 1.1086)]:—wide, broad, τελαμών [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.796; πτύον 13.588)]; αἰπόλια πλατέ᾽ αἰγῶν broad herds, i.e. large or spread over a wide space,[Refs 8th c.BC+ (2.474, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 14.101, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 445; π. πρόσοδοι 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 6.45; ὁδοί 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.6.43, “IG” 22.380.20)]; τὴν ὁδὸν τὴν π. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (“Broad” Street, “SIG” 57.27 (Milet., 5th c.BC))]; similarly, π. ὁδὸς τῶν θεῶν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (“PStrassb.” 85.22 (2nd c.BC) compare(below 11); κιβώτιον π. “IG” 12.330.20; τάφρος ὡς πλατυτάτη καὶ βαθυτάτη 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 7.5.9.)]
2 flat, level, χῶρος π. καὶ πολλός [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.39; πλατυτάτης.. γῆς οὔσης Θετταλίας 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 6.1.9; πότερον ἡ γῆ π. ἐστιν ἢ στρογγύλη 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 97d)]; κάρυα τὰ π., i.e. chestnuts, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ διαίτης” 2.55, Diocl.fragment 126, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 5.4.29)]; σελάχη, ἰχθύες, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 489b31, “PA” 695b7; ποτήρια πλατέα, τοίχους οὐκ ἔχοντ᾽ 5th c.BC: Pherecrates Comicus 143.2.)]
3 of a man, broad-shouldered, οὐ γὰρ οἱ πλατεῖς, οὐδ᾽ εὐρύνωτοι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 1250, compare “UPZ” 121.19 (2nd c.BC).)]
4 of seasons, far advanced, ἔαρ Procl.ad [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 483.)]
5 metaphorically, π. ὅρκος a broad strong oath, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Empedocles Poeta Philosophus 30.3, compare 115.2)]; κατάγελως π. flat (i.e. downright) mockery, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 1126)]; π. φλήναφος Amelius cited in [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (3rd c.AD: Porphyrius Tyrius Philosophus “Vita Plotini” 17, 18)]; but πλατὺ γελάσαι, καταγελᾶν, laugh loud and rudely, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Vita Apollonii” 7.39, “VS” 1.20.2; καταχρεμψαμένη πλατύ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 815, compare 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Cat.” 12.)]
6 broad, of pronunciation, π. λέξις [Refs 4th c.BC+ (2nd c.AD: Hermogenes Rhetor “περὶ ἰδεῶν” 1.6; φωνή 2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 2.116; πλατέα λαλοῦσι πάντα οἱ Δωριεῖς 4th c.BC: Demetrius Phalereus Rhetor “Demetrius on Style” 177.)]
7 diffuse, λέξις [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Demosthene” 19.)] adverb -έως[Refs ([prev. passage]: _comparative_ -ύτερον)] in fuller detail, διαλεξόμεθα [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “Πυρρώνειοι ὑποτυπώσεις” 2.219, compare 2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus 2.5, 2nd c.AD: Herodianus Grammaticus 2.15.6)]; -υτέρως Tz.ad [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Lycophron Tragicus 177)]: superlative -υτάτως[Refs ([prev. author] “H.” 12.890.)]
7.b adverb -έως loosely, opposed to ἀκριβῶς, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Rh.” 1.248 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus)]
8 widespread, frequent, χρῆσις [Refs 4th c.AD+ (4th-5th c.AD: Choeroboscus Grammaticus “Scholia in Theodosii Canones” 1.332: _comparative_, [prev. work] 267.)]
9 π. δρόμος, = Latin cursus clabularis, [Refs 6th c.AD+ (6th c.AD: Lydus, Joannes Laurentius Historicus “Mag.” 3.61.)]
II substantive πλατεῖα (i.e. ὁδός,[Refs 2nd c.AD+ (compare 2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “Πυρρώνειοι ὑποτυπώσεις” 1.188, and see.above 1.1))], ἡ, street, [NT+4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Philemo Comicus 58, 3rd c.BC: Herodas Mimographus 6.53, “OGI” 491.9 (Pergam.), LXX.Gen.19.2, 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 17.52, 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 17.1.10, NT.Matt.12.19; οἱ ἐν τῇ Σκυτικῇ π. τεχνεῖται “IGRom.” 4.790, compare 791, +others (from Apamea); hence Σεβαστὴ π. name of a guild, [prev. work]3.711 (from Sura))]; ἡ ἱερωτάτη π. [Refs (“CIG” “Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum” “Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum” 3960b6 (from Apamea).)]
II.b (i.e. χείρ) flat of the hand, ταῖσι πλατείαις τυπτόμενος [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 1096; πλατείᾳ τῇ χειρί 3rd c.AD: Philumenus Medicus “de Venenatis Animalibus” 5.3.)]
II.c a kind of dish or cup, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (Inscriptiones Graecae 11(2).110.22, +others (Delos, 3rd c.BC).)]
II.d broad stripe or border, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demetrius Phalereus Rhetor “Demetrius on Style” 108.)]
III salt, brackish, πλατυτέροισι ἐχρέωντο τοῖσι πόμασι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.108)]; πλατέα or πλατύτερα ὕδατα, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Meteorologica” 358b4, 358a28 (but πλατὺς Ἑλλήσποντος 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 7.86, 17.432)], is not the salt, but the broad, Hellespont,[Refs 4th c.BC+ (compare 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 875 (Lyric poetry), wrongly explained by 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 2.41b))]. (Cf. Sanskrit pṛthú- 'broad', práthati 'spread out', etc. But in signification [Refs (111 _cognate_ with Sanskrit)]pa[tnull]u- 'sharp', 'pungent', tripa[tnull]u 'the three saline substances'.)
Ionic dialect feminine πλατέα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.156: _accusative_ _plural_ _feminine_ πλατέας “PMag.Par.” 1.1086)]:—wide, broad, τελαμών [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.796; πτύον 13.588)]; αἰπόλια πλατέ᾽ αἰγῶν broad herds, i.e. large or spread over a wide space,[Refs 8th c.BC+ (2.474, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 14.101, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 445; π. πρόσοδοι 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 6.45; ὁδοί 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.6.43, “IG” 22.380.20)]; τὴν ὁδὸν τὴν π. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (“Broad” Street, “SIG” 57.27 (Milet., 5th c.BC))]; similarly, π. ὁδὸς τῶν θεῶν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (“PStrassb.” 85.22 (2nd c.BC) compare(below 11); κιβώτιον π. “IG” 12.330.20; τάφρος ὡς πλατυτάτη καὶ βαθυτάτη 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 7.5.9.)]
2 flat, level, χῶρος π. καὶ πολλός [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.39; πλατυτάτης.. γῆς οὔσης Θετταλίας 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 6.1.9; πότερον ἡ γῆ π. ἐστιν ἢ στρογγύλη 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 97d)]; κάρυα τὰ π., i.e. chestnuts, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ διαίτης” 2.55, Diocl.fragment 126, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 5.4.29)]; σελάχη, ἰχθύες, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 489b31, “PA” 695b7; ποτήρια πλατέα, τοίχους οὐκ ἔχοντ᾽ 5th c.BC: Pherecrates Comicus 143.2.)]
3 of a man, broad-shouldered, οὐ γὰρ οἱ πλατεῖς, οὐδ᾽ εὐρύνωτοι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 1250, compare “UPZ” 121.19 (2nd c.BC).)]
4 of seasons, far advanced, ἔαρ Procl.ad [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 483.)]
5 metaphorically, π. ὅρκος a broad strong oath, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Empedocles Poeta Philosophus 30.3, compare 115.2)]; κατάγελως π. flat (i.e. downright) mockery, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 1126)]; π. φλήναφος Amelius cited in [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (3rd c.AD: Porphyrius Tyrius Philosophus “Vita Plotini” 17, 18)]; but πλατὺ γελάσαι, καταγελᾶν, laugh loud and rudely, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Vita Apollonii” 7.39, “VS” 1.20.2; καταχρεμψαμένη πλατύ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 815, compare 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Cat.” 12.)]
6 broad, of pronunciation, π. λέξις [Refs 4th c.BC+ (2nd c.AD: Hermogenes Rhetor “περὶ ἰδεῶν” 1.6; φωνή 2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 2.116; πλατέα λαλοῦσι πάντα οἱ Δωριεῖς 4th c.BC: Demetrius Phalereus Rhetor “Demetrius on Style” 177.)]
7 diffuse, λέξις [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Demosthene” 19.)] adverb -έως[Refs ([prev. passage]: _comparative_ -ύτερον)] in fuller detail, διαλεξόμεθα [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “Πυρρώνειοι ὑποτυπώσεις” 2.219, compare 2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus 2.5, 2nd c.AD: Herodianus Grammaticus 2.15.6)]; -υτέρως Tz.ad [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Lycophron Tragicus 177)]: superlative -υτάτως[Refs ([prev. author] “H.” 12.890.)]
7.b adverb -έως loosely, opposed to ἀκριβῶς, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Rh.” 1.248 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus)]
8 widespread, frequent, χρῆσις [Refs 4th c.AD+ (4th-5th c.AD: Choeroboscus Grammaticus “Scholia in Theodosii Canones” 1.332: _comparative_, [prev. work] 267.)]
9 π. δρόμος, = Latin cursus clabularis, [Refs 6th c.AD+ (6th c.AD: Lydus, Joannes Laurentius Historicus “Mag.” 3.61.)]
II substantive πλατεῖα (i.e. ὁδός,[Refs 2nd c.AD+ (compare 2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “Πυρρώνειοι ὑποτυπώσεις” 1.188, and see.above 1.1))], ἡ, street, [NT+4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Philemo Comicus 58, 3rd c.BC: Herodas Mimographus 6.53, “OGI” 491.9 (Pergam.), LXX.Gen.19.2, 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 17.52, 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 17.1.10, NT.Matt.12.19; οἱ ἐν τῇ Σκυτικῇ π. τεχνεῖται “IGRom.” 4.790, compare 791, +others (from Apamea); hence Σεβαστὴ π. name of a guild, [prev. work]3.711 (from Sura))]; ἡ ἱερωτάτη π. [Refs (“CIG” “Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum” “Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum” 3960b6 (from Apamea).)]
II.b (i.e. χείρ) flat of the hand, ταῖσι πλατείαις τυπτόμενος [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 1096; πλατείᾳ τῇ χειρί 3rd c.AD: Philumenus Medicus “de Venenatis Animalibus” 5.3.)]
II.c a kind of dish or cup, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (Inscriptiones Graecae 11(2).110.22, +others (Delos, 3rd c.BC).)]
II.d broad stripe or border, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demetrius Phalereus Rhetor “Demetrius on Style” 108.)]
III salt, brackish, πλατυτέροισι ἐχρέωντο τοῖσι πόμασι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.108)]; πλατέα or πλατύτερα ὕδατα, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Meteorologica” 358b4, 358a28 (but πλατὺς Ἑλλήσποντος 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 7.86, 17.432)], is not the salt, but the broad, Hellespont,[Refs 4th c.BC+ (compare 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 875 (Lyric poetry), wrongly explained by 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 2.41b))]. (Cf. Sanskrit pṛthú- 'broad', práthati 'spread out', etc. But in signification [Refs (111 _cognate_ with Sanskrit)]pa[tnull]u- 'sharp', 'pungent', tripa[tnull]u 'the three saline substances'.)