Word Summary
petrōdēs: rock-like
Original Word: πετρώδηςTransliteration: petrōdēs
Phonetic Spelling: (pet-ro'-dace)
Part of Speech: Adjective
Short Definition: rock-like
Meaning: rock-like
Strong's Concordance
stony.
From petra and eidos; rock-like, i.e. Rocky -- stony.
see GREEK petra
see GREEK eidos
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 4075: πετρώδηςπετρώδης,
πετρῶδες (from
πέτρα and
εἶδος; hence, properly, 'rocklike,' 'having the appearance of rock'),
rocky, stony:
τό πετρῶδες and
τά πετρώδη, of ground full of rocks,
Matthew 13:5, 20;
Mark 4:5, 16. (
Sophocles,
Plato,
Aristotle,
Diodorus 3, 45 (44),
Plutarch, others.)