Strong G4237πρασιά
group
- Transliteration
- prasia
- Pronunciation
- pras-ee-ah'
- Morphology
- Greek Noun (Feminine)
Definition
Perhaps from πράσον prason (a leek and so an onion patch); a garden plot that is (by implication of regular beds) a row (repeated in plural by Hebraism to indicate an arrangement): - in ranks.
Detailed definition
πρασιά, -ᾶς, ἡ
[in LXX: Sir.24:31 *;]
a garden-bed; metaphorically, of ranks or orderly groups of persons: Mrk.6:40.†
(AS)
[in LXX: Sir.24:31 *;]
a garden-bed; metaphorically, of ranks or orderly groups of persons: Mrk.6:40.†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G4237 appears in 1 verse of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- rank1
First verses
- Mark 6:40And they sat down in ranks, by hundreds, and by fifties.
Occurrences by book
Detailed Greek dictionary
πρᾰσι-ά,
Ionic dialect πρᾰσ-ιή, ἡ, bed in a garden, garden-plot, [LXX+8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 7.127, 24.247, 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 4.4.3, 2nd c.BC: Nicander Epicus “Alexipharmaca” 532, LXX.Sir.24.31, 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 4.17, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus “de Usu Partium” 9.6; ἀνθῶν πρασιαί 3rd c.AD(?): Longus Scriptor Eroticus 4.2: _metaphorically_, πρασιαὶ πρασιαί)] in companies or groups, [NT (NT.Mark.6.40. (Prob. from πράσον,)] and so properly bed of leeks.)
II a surgical instrument, [Refs (“Hermes” 38.283.)]
Ionic dialect πρᾰσ-ιή, ἡ, bed in a garden, garden-plot, [LXX+8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 7.127, 24.247, 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 4.4.3, 2nd c.BC: Nicander Epicus “Alexipharmaca” 532, LXX.Sir.24.31, 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 4.17, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus “de Usu Partium” 9.6; ἀνθῶν πρασιαί 3rd c.AD(?): Longus Scriptor Eroticus 4.2: _metaphorically_, πρασιαὶ πρασιαί)] in companies or groups, [NT (NT.Mark.6.40. (Prob. from πράσον,)] and so properly bed of leeks.)
II a surgical instrument, [Refs (“Hermes” 38.283.)]