Greek noun (feminine) · G4073
πέτρα
petrapet'-ra
rock
15 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: pétra
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G4073is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 7 of 27New Testament books
- 7spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G4073
a (mass of) rock (literally or figuratively)
The King James renders it: rock.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
petra is rendered "rock". It stands 15 times in the Greek text, across seven books.
- Five of the uses stand in Matthew, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 7:24Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.
- The Greek text spells it seven different ways.
The first use
Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.
Matthew 7:24πέτραν
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Five of the word's fifteen uses are in Matthew.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- rock9
- a rock3
- rocks3
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| πετρώδης | petrodes | rocky | Uses4 |
All 15, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
7 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- πέτραν4
- πέτρας4
- πέτρα2
- πέτρᾳ2
- πέτραι1
- πέτραις1
- πέτραν.¶1
The grammar of each form
- noun · accusative (object) · feminine singular5N-ASF
- noun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singular3N-GSF
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singular2N-DSF
- noun · nominative (subject) · feminine singular2N-NSF
- noun · accusative (object) · feminine plural1N-APF
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine plural1N-DPF
- noun · nominative (subject) · feminine plural1N-NPF
Matthew
five uses
Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.
- πέτρανpetrannoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: rock
The rain fell, the torrents raged, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because its foundation was on the rock.
- πέτραν.¶petrannoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: rock
And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.
- πέτρᾳpetranoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: rock
At that moment the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth quaked and the rocks were split.
- πέτραιpetrainoun · nominative (subject) · feminine pluraltagged: rocks
and placed it in his own new tomb that he had cut into the rock. Then he rolled a great stone across the entrance to the tomb and went away.
- πέτρᾳpetranoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: rock
Mark
one use
So Joseph bought a linen cloth, took down the body of Jesus, wrapped it in the cloth, and placed it in a tomb that had been cut out of the rock. Then he rolled a stone against the entrance to the tomb.
- πέτραςpetrasnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: a rock
Luke
three uses
He is like a man building a house, who dug down deep and laid his foundation on the rock. When the flood came, the torrent crashed against that house but could not shake it, because it was well built.
- πέτρανpetrannoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: rock
Some fell on rocky ground, and when it came up, the seedlings withered because they had no moisture.
- πέτρανpetrannoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: rock
The seeds on rocky ground are those who hear the word and receive it with joy, but they have no root. They believe for a season, but in the time of testing, they fall away.
- πέτραςpetrasnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: rock
Romans
one use
as it is written: “See, I lay in Zion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense; and the one who believes in Him will never be put to shame.”
- πέτρανpetrannoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: a rock
1 Corinthians
two uses
and drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank from the spiritual rock that accompanied them, and that rock was Christ.
- πέτραςpetrasnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: rock
- πέτραpetranoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: rock
1 Peter
one use
and, “A stone of stumbling and a rock of offense.” They stumble because they disobey the word—and to this they were appointed.
- πέτραpetranoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: a rock
Revelation
two uses
Then the kings of the earth, the nobles, the commanders, the rich, the mighty, and every slave and free man hid in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains.
- πέτραςpetrasnoun · accusative (object) · feminine pluraltagged: rocks
And they said to the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of the One seated on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb.
- πέτραιςpetraisnoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine pluraltagged: rocks
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.