Lexical Summary hedraios: sitting, steadfast Original Word: ἑδραῖοςTransliteration: hedraios Phonetic Spelling: (hed-rah'-yos) Part of Speech: Adjective Short Definition: sitting, steadfast Meaning: sitting, steadfast Strong's Concordance settled, steadfast. From a derivative of hezomai (to sit); sedentary, i.e. (by implication) immovable -- settled, stedfast. Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 1476: ἑδραῖοςἑδραῖος (rarely feminine ἑδραια (Winer's Grammar, § 11, 1)), ἑδραιον (ἕδρα, seat, chair); 1. sitting, sedentary, (Xenophon, Plato, others). 2. firm, immovable, steadfast, (Euripides, Plato, others); in the N. T. metaphorically, of those who are fixed in purpose: 1 Corinthians 15:58; Colossians 1:23; ἕστηκεν ἐν τῇ καρδία, 1 Corinthians 7:37. |
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