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Koine Greek wordlink #21059

SR GNT Mat 27:51 πέτραι (petrai) ‘was shaken and the rocks were divided’ Strongs=40730 Lemma=petra
Word role=noun case=nominative gender=feminine number=plural

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Only use of identical word form πέτραι (N-NFP) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘πέτραι’ (N-NFP) is always and only glossed as ‘rocks’.

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘petra’ have 3 different glosses: ‘a rock’, ‘rock’, ‘rocks’.

Greek words (2) other than πέτραι (N-NFP) with a gloss related to ‘rocks’

REV 6:15 πέτρας (petras) N-AFP ‘and among the rocks of the mountains’ SR GNT Rev 6:15 word 35

REV 6:16 πέτραις (petrais) N-DFP ‘mountains and to the rocks fall on us’ SR GNT Rev 6:16 word 7

Key: N=noun AFP=accusative,feminine,plural DFP=dative,feminine,plural NFP=nominative,feminine,plural