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Strong's #4073: petra (pronounced pet'-ra)

feminine of the same as 4074; a (mass of) rock (literally or figuratively):--rock.




Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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petra

1) a rock, cliff or ledge

1a) a projecting rock, crag, rocky ground

1b) a rock, a large stone

1c) metaphorically a man like a rock, by reason of his firmness and strength of soul

Part of Speech: noun feminine

Relation: from the same as G4074

Citing in TDNT: 6:95, 834




Usage:

This word is used 16 times:

Matthew 7:24: "built his house upon a rock:"
Matthew 7:25: "for it was founded upon a rock."
Matthew 16:18: "Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church;"
Matthew 27:51: "did quake, and the rocks rent;"
Matthew 27:60: "he had hewn out in the rock: and he rolled a great stone"
Mark 15:46: "which was hewn out of a rock, and rolled a stone"
Luke 6:48: "laid the foundation on a rock: and when the flood arose, the"
Luke 6:48: "for it was founded upon a rock."
Luke 8:6: "some fell upon a rock; and as soon as it was sprung up, it withered away, because it lacked"
Luke 8:13: "They on the rock are they, which, when they hear, receive"
Romans 9:33: "Zion a stumblingstone and rock of offense: and whosoever"
1 Corinthians 10:4: "they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was"
1 Corinthians 10:4: "Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ."
1 Peter 2:8: "a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense, even to them which stumble at the"
Revelation 6:15: "and in the rocks of the mountains;"
Revelation 6:16: "to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and"









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