Lexicon gónia: an angle, a corner Original Word: γωνία, ας, ἡPart of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: gónia Phonetic Spelling: (go-nee'-ah) Short Definition: a corner, a secret place Definition: a corner; met: a secret place. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom gonuDefinitionan angle, a corner NASB Translationcorner (6), corners (3).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 1137: γωνίαγωνία, γωνίας, ἡ (from Herodotus down), an angle, i. e. a. an external angle, corner (German Ecke): τῶν πλατειῶν, Matthew 6:5; κεφαλή γωνίας, Matthew 21:42; Mark 12:10; Luke 20:17; Acts 4:11; 1 Peter 2:7 (פִּנָּה רֹאשׁ, Psalm 117:22 (), the head of the corner, i. e. the cornerstone (ἀκρογωνιαῖος, which see); αἱ τέσσαρες γωνίαι τῆς γῆς, the four extreme limits of the earth, Revelation 7:1; Revelation 20:8. b. like German Winkel, Latinangulus, English (internal) corner, equivalent to a secret place: Acts 26:26 (so Plato, Gorgias, p. 485 d. βίον βιωναι ἐν γωνία, Epictetus diss. 2, 12, 17; (for other examples see Wetstein on Acts, the passage cited; Stallbaum on Plato, the passage cited)).
Strong's angle, corner, quarter. Probably akin to gonu; an angle -- corner, quarter. see GREEK gonu |
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