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Strong's #4418 - πτέρνα

Transliteration

ptérna

Phonetics

pter'-nah

Root Word (Etymology)

of uncertain derivation

Parts of Speech

Noun Feminine

TDNT

None

Definition

Thayer
Strong
Mounce

Thayer's

the heel (of the foot)
to lift up the heel against one
1. to injure one by trickery (figure borrowed either from kicking, or from a wrestler tripping up his antagonist)

Hebrew Equivalent Words:

Strong #: 6119 ‑ עִקְּבָה (aw‑kabe', ik‑keb‑aw');

Frequency Lists

Book
Word
Parsing

Verse Results

KJV (1)

John 1

NAS (1)

John 1

HCS (1)

John 1

BSB (1)

John 1

ESV (1)

John 1

WEB (1)

John 1

KJV (1)

heel 1

NAS (1)

HEEL 1

HCS (1)

heel 1

BSB (1)

heel 1

ESV (1)

heel 1

WEB (1)

heel 1

RAH

N-ASF 3

N-DPF 1

N-GSF 1

N-NPF 2

ANT

N-ASF 1

BEZ

N-ASF 1

BGB

N-AFS 1

BMT

N-ASF 1

BYZ

N-ASF 1

ELZ

N-ASF 1

NA26

N-ASF 1

SBL

N-ASF 1

SCV

N-ASF 1

STV

N-ASF 1

TIS

N-ASF 1

Liddell-Scott-Jones Definitions

πτέρνη ( Hp. Art. 3 , Epid. 5.48 , Phot. ), later πτέρνᾰ ( Lyc. 500, LXX Genesis 3:15 , etc.), ἡ , heel , Il. 22.397 , Hp.Il.cc., Arist. HA 494b7; under part of the heel , A. Ch. 209 (pl.); heel-bone , Gal. 2.776, al.: prov., εἴπερ τὸν ἐγκέφαλον . . μὴ ἐν ταῖς π. φορεῖτε D. 7.45 .

2. hoof , LXX Jd. 5.22 .

3. heel of a shoe, Herod. 7.21 , Phryn. PS p.69B.

4. footstep , LXX Ca. 1.8 .

II metaph., foot or lower part of anything, πύργων Lyc. 442; τῆς μηχανῆς Plb. 8.6.2; of a mast, Asclep.Myrl. ap. Ath. 11.474f (but, waist of a ship, Hero *Stereom. 2.52).

2. butt-end of the ἀγκών of a torsion-engine, Ph. Bel. 59.30 , 66.2; of a surgical machine, Orib. 49.4.9 ,al.

III ham (mock Epicism formed from Lat. perna ), Batr. 37; f.l. for πέρνα in Aët. 15.15 , Paul.Aeg. 7.17.74 ( πέρνα correctly in 4.32 ).

Thayer's Expanded Definition

πτέρνα, πτέρνης, ἡ, the heel (of the foot): ἐπαίρειν τήν πτέρναν ἐπί τινα, to lift up the heel against one, i. e. dropping the figure (which is borrowed either from kicking, or from a wrestler tripping up his antagonist), to injure one by trickery, John 13:18 after Psalm 40:10 (). (Often in Greek writings from Homer down; the Sept. for עָקֵב.)

Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament

πτέρνα , -ης , ἡ ,

[in LXX for H6119;]

the heel: fig., ἐπαίρειν τὴν Papyri ἐπί , John 13:18 (LXX).†

Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament.
Copyright © 1922 by G. Abbott-Smith, D.D., D.C.L.. T & T Clarke, London.

List of Word Forms

επτέρνικε επτερνίσαμέν επτέρνισε πτερά πτέρναι πτέρναις πτερναν πτέρναν πτέρνας πτέρνη πτέρνης πτερνιεί πτερνιζετέ πτερνίζετε πτερνισμόν πτερνισμώ πτεροίς πτεροφυήσουσιν pternan ptérnan