Lexicon probatikos: of sheep Original Word: προβατικός, ή, όνPart of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: probatikos Phonetic Spelling: (prob-at-ik-os') Short Definition: pertaining to sheep Definition: pertaining to sheep. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom probatonDefinitionof sheep NASB Translationsheep (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 4262: προβατικόςπροβατικός, προβατικῇ, προβατικον ( πρόβατον), pertaining to sheep: ἡ προβατικῇ, SC. πύλη (which is added in Nehemiah 3:1, 32; Nehemiah 12:39, for הַצֹּאן שַׁעַר), the sheep gate, John 5:2 (( Winers Grammar, 592 (551); Buttmann, § 123, 8); but some (as Meyer, Weiss, Milligan and Moulton, cf. Treg. marginal reading and see Tdf.'s note at the passage) would connect προβατικός with the immediately following κολυμβήθρα (pointed as a dative); see Tdf. as above; WHs Appendix, at the passage. On the supposed locality see B. D. under the phrase, Sheep Gate (Sheep-Market)). STRONGS NT 4262a: προβάτιονπροβάτιον, προβατιου, τό (diminutive of the following word), a little sheep: John 21:(16 T Tr marginal reading WH text), 17 T Tr WH text (Hippocrates, Aristophanes, Plato.)
Strong's sheep market. From probaton; relating to sheep, i.e. (a gate) through which they were led into Jerusalem -- sheep (market). see GREEK probaton |
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