Lexical Summary peras: a limit Original Word: πέραςTransliteration: peras Phonetic Spelling: (per'-as) Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter Short Definition: a limit Meaning: a limit Strong's Concordance end, limitFrom the same as peran; an extremity -- end, ut-(ter-)most participle see GREEK peran Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 4009: πέραςπέρας, πέρατος, τό (πέρα beyond), from Aeschylus down, extremity, bound, end (see τέλος, 1 a. at the beginning); a. of a portion of space ("boundary, frontier): πέρατα τῆς γῆς (the ends of the earth), equivalent to the remotest lands, Matthew 12:42; Luke 11:31 (Homer, Iliad 8, 478 (πεῖραρ); Thucydides 1, 69; Xenophon, Ages. 9, 4; the Sept. for אֶרֶץ אַפְסֵי (Winer's Grammar, 30)); also τῆς οἰκουμένης, Romans 10:18 (Psalm 71:8 b. of a thing extending through a period of time (termination): ἀντιλογίας, Hebrews 6:16 (τῶν κακῶν, Aeschylus Pers. 632; Josephus, b. j. 7, 5, 6, and other examples in other writings). |
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