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Koine Greek wordlink #158484

SR GNT Rev 6:16 πέτραις (petrais) ‘mountains and to the rocks fall on us’ Strongs=40730 Lemma=petra
Word role=noun case=dative gender=feminine number=plural
Year=96 AD Referred to from Word #158485 Referred to from Word #158489

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Only use of identical word form πέτραις (N-DFP) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘πέτραις’ (N-DFP) 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 πέτραις (N-DFP) with a gloss related to ‘rocks’

MAT 27:51 πέτραι (petrai) N-NFP ‘was shaken and the rocks were divided’ SR GNT Mat 27:51 word 25

OET-LV: 51 And see, the curtain of _the temple was _torn into two from top to bottom, and the earth was _shaken and the rocks were _divided, (MAT_27:51)

OET-RV: 51 Then, wow, the curtain inside the temple was torn apart from the top to the bottom, and there was an earthquake and splitting of rocks. (MAT 27:51)

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

OET-LV: 15 And the kings of _the earth, and the magnates, and the commanders, and the rich, and the mighty, and every slave and free man, hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of _the mountains, (REV_6:15)

OET-RV: 15 Then the kings on the earth, and high-ranking officials, military officers, rich people and influential individuals, all slaves and free people hid in caves and among rocks on the mountains. (REV 6:15)

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