Lexicon keraia: a little horn Original Word: κεραία, ας, ἡPart of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: keraia Phonetic Spelling: (ker-ah'-yah) Short Definition: an apostrophe Definition: a little hook, an apostrophe on letters of the alphabet, distinguishing them from other little letters, or a separation stroke between letters. HELPS word-Studies 2762 keraía – properly, a little "horn," i.e. " 'a little hook, an apostrophe' on letters of the alphabet, distinguishing them from other like-letters, or a 'separation stroke' between letters" (Souter); a tittle (KJV). ["Tittle" comes from the Latin, titulus – the stroke above an abbreviated word – and later, any small mark. "In Vay. R. 19 the guilt of altering one of them is pronounced so great that if it were done the world would be destroyed" (so McNeile).] NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom kerasDefinitiona little horn NASB Translationstroke (1), stroke of a letter (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 2762: κεραίακεραία ( WH κέρεα (see their Appendix, p. 151)), κεραιας, ἡ ( κέρας), a little horn; extremity, apex, point; used by the Greek grammarians of the accents and diacritical points. In Matthew 5:18 ((where see Wetstein; cf. also Edersheim, Jesus the Messiah, 1:537f)); Luke 16:17 of the little lines, or projections, by which the Hebrew letters in other respects similar differ from each other, as cheth ח and he ה, daleth ד and resh ר, beth ב and kaph כ ( A. V. tittle); the meaning is, 'not even the minutest part of the law shall perish.' (( Aeschylus, Thucydides, others.)) STRONGS NT 2762: κέρεα [κέρεα, see κεραία.]
Strong's tittle, stroke Feminine of a presumed derivative of the base of keras; something horn-like, i.e. (specially) the apex of a Hebrew letter (figuratively, the least particle) -- tittle. see GREEK keras |
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