Lexical Summary keraia: a little horn Original Word: κεραίαTransliteration: keraia Phonetic Spelling: (ker-ah'-yah) Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Short Definition: a little horn Meaning: a little horn Strong's Concordance tittle, strokeFeminine 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 Thayer's Greek Lexicon 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.] |
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