Lexicon :: Strong's G4237 - prasia

πρασιά
Transliteration
prasia (Key)
Pronunciation
pras-ee-ah'
Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Perhaps from prason (a leek, and so an onion-patch)
mGNT
2x in 1 unique form(s) TR
2x in 1 unique form(s) LXX
0x in 0 unique form(s)
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Strong’s Definitions

πρασιά prasiá, pras-ee-ah'; perhaps from πράσον práson (a leek, and so an onion-patch); a garden plot, i.e. (by implication, of regular beds) a row (repeated in plural by Hebraism, to indicate an arrangement):—in ranks.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 2x

The KJV translates Strong's G4237 in the following manner: in ranks (1x), not tr. (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 2x
The KJV translates Strong's G4237 in the following manner: in ranks (1x), not tr. (1x).

  1. a plot of ground, a garden bed

  2. Hebrew idiom i.e. they reclined in ranks or divisions, so that several ranks formed, as it were separate plots

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
πρασιά prasiá, pras-ee-ah'; perhaps from πράσον práson (a leek, and so an onion-patch); a garden plot, i.e. (by implication, of regular beds) a row (repeated in plural by Hebraism, to indicate an arrangement):—in ranks.
STRONGS G4237:
πρασιά, πρασιας, ἡ, a plot of ground, a garden-bed, Homer, Odyssey 7, 127; 24, 247; Theophrastus, hist. plant. 4, 4, 3; Nicander, Dioscorides (?), others; Sir. 24:31; ἀνέπεσον πρασιαί πρασιαί (a Hebraism), i. e. they reclined in ranks or divisions, so that the several ranks formed, as it were, separate plots, Mark 6:40; cf. Gesenius, Lehrgeb., p. 669; (Hebrew Gram. § 106, 4; Buttmann, 30 (27); Winer's Grammar, 464 (432) also) § 37, 3; (where add from the O. T. συνήγαγον αὐτούς θημωνιας θημωνιας, Exodus 8:14).
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Exodus
8:14
Mark
6:40
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