Lexicon pterna: the heel Original Word: πτέρνα, ης, ἡPart of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: pterna Phonetic Spelling: (pter'-nah) Short Definition: the heel Definition: the heel. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Origina prim. word Definitionthe heel NASB Translationheel (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 4418: πτέρναπτέρνα, πτέρνης, ἡ, the heel (of the foot): ἐπαίρειν τήν πτέρναν ἐπί τινα, to lift up the heel against one, i. e. dropping the figure (which is borrowed either from kicking, or from a wrestler tripping up his antagonist), to injure one by trickery, John 13:18 after Psalm 40:10 (). (Often in Greek writings from Homer down; the Sept. for עָקֵב.)
Strong's heel. Of uncertain derivation; the heel (figuratively) -- heel. |
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