UBS Greek Dictionary Article

Form 1

Part of speech: noun, f.

Inflections: πτέρνα; -ης

Sense 1: heel

Semantic entry: 8.52

Semantic domains: Body, Body Parts, and Body Products

Subdomains: Parts of the Body

Definition: the back part of the human foot below the ankle

Notes: πτέρνα occurs in the NT only in OET JHN 13:18 (ὁ τρώγων μου τὸν ἄρτον ἐπῆρεν ἐπ᾽ ἐμὲ τὴν πτέρναν αὐτοῦ ‘the one eating my bread has raised his heel against me’) in an idiomatic expression denoting antagonism and opposition (see 39.3: ἐπαίρω / 39.3: πτέρνα).

Show passage in OET: JHN 13:18

OET-RV JHN 13:18

18 “But I’m not talking about all of you. I know each one that I chose, but this that was written in the scriptures must be fulfilled,
⇔ ‘The one sharing food with me, lifted up his boot against me.’

OET-LV JHN 13:18

18 I _am _speaking not about all of _you.
I have _known whom _all I _chose, but in _order _that the scripture may _be _fulfilled:
The one eating the bread with me, lifted _up the heel of _him against me.

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Sense 2: to turn against, to oppose

Semantic entry: 39.3

Semantic domains: Hostility, Strife

Subdomains: Opposition, Hostility

Definition: (an idiom, literally: to lift one’s heel against) to oppose someone by turning against such a person, possibly with focus upon the initial aspect of becoming opposed to

Notes: In a number of languages a convenient way of rendering ‘to turn against’ may be ‘to become an enemy of.’|πτέρνα occurs in the NT only in OET JHN 13:18 in an idiomatic expression denoting antagonism and opposition.

Collocations: ἐπαίρω τὴν πτέρναν