An angle
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G1137 names a corner or angle. It can identify a public street corner, an out-of-the-way corner, the symbolic extremities of the earth, or the corner in the scriptural phrase about the rejected stone becoming the cornerstone.
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G1137 names a corner or angle. It can identify a public street corner, an out-of-the-way corner, the symbolic extremities of the earth, or the corner in the scriptural phrase about the rejected stone becoming the cornerstone.
The BSB source-word alignment has 9 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include corners (3), . . . (2), cornerstone (2), a corner (1), the cornerstone (1).
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Matthew 6:5. Its strongest book concentrations include Acts (2), Matthew (2), Revelation (2), 1 Peter (1).
G1137 names a corner or angle. It can identify a public street corner, an out-of-the-way corner, the symbolic extremities of the earth, or the corner in the scriptural phrase about the rejected stone becoming the cornerstone. In Matt. 6. 5, Jesus warns against praying on street corners in order to be seen, condemning performance before people rather than public prayer itself.
In Acts. 4. 11, Peter identifies Jesus as the rejected stone who has become the cornerstone, placing the term within Israel's Scripture and the apostolic proclamation of salvation. In Rev. 7. 1, four corners portray the whole earth within apocalyptic vision, not a lesson in planetary geometry. G1137 opens teaching on visibility, rejection, worldwide scope, and Christ's decisive place in God's saving work.
It does not make every corner sacred, prove a particular architectural theory, or authorize reading visionary geography as scientific description.
G1137 occurs in ordinary spatial expressions, the idiom of events not done in a corner, apocalyptic four-corners imagery, and the scriptural cornerstone confession. Genre and construction distinguish public location, obscurity, total geographic scope, and christological fulfillment.
And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites. For they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men. Truly I tell you, they already have their full reward.
Jesus exposes hypocrites who select conspicuous prayer locations to gain human notice and receive that public approval as their reward.
This Jesus is ‘the stone you builders rejected, which has become the cornerstone.’
Peter applies the rejected-stone Scripture to Jesus before Israel's rulers and joins His exalted role to the unique saving name.
After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back its four winds so that no wind would blow on land or sea or on any tree.
John sees four angels at the earth's four corners restraining four winds before God's servants receive the protective seal.
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Greek word. Physical corner or angle, especially of buildings; metaphorically, a position of structural importance or prominence.
Physical corner or angle, especially of buildings; metaphorically, a position of structural importance or prominence.
(γόνυ), [in LXX chiefly for פִּנָּה ;] an angle, a corner: Mat.6:5, Act.26:26; τ. τέσσαρας γ. τ. γῆς, Rev.7:1, 20:8; κεφαλὴ γνωνίας (רֹאשׁ פִּנָּה, Ps 117(118):22, LXX), Mat.21:42, Mrk.12:10, Luk.20:17, Act.4:11, 1Pe.2:7.
Textus Receptus witness, full corpusGreek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
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G1137 is simple spatial language that serves sharply different claims. In the Sermon on the Mount, the street corner offers visibility, and Jesus addresses the desire to be seen and rewarded by people. In Acts, the corner belongs to the Scripture of the rejected stone: leaders rejected Jesus, but God raised and exalted Him, and Peter announces salvation in His name alone.
Revelation's four corners place the whole earth within a visionary scene where angels restrain the winds under divine command. The lexical item does not merge secrecy, architecture, and cosmology. Instead, each context uses a corner to clarify motive, reversal, or comprehensive scope. Teaching it well directs hearers toward sincere prayer before the Father, humble submission to the crucified and risen Christ, and confidence that the entire created order remains under God's authority.
It also models genre-sensitive reading: an apocalypse can picture totality without supplying a diagram, and a christological citation can proclaim Jesus' decisive honor without requiring certainty about every ancient building technique.
Acts.4.11
G1137 is a Greek feminine noun for an angle or corner. Prepositional phrases and modifiers activate senses such as a street corner, an obscure corner, four extremities, or the scriptural head-of-corner expression.
The cornerstone saying cites Israel's rejected-stone Scripture and is applied by Jesus and the apostles to His rejection and vindication. Revelation's four-corners imagery participates in biblical language for the world's full extent, while Matthew keeps public piety accountable to the Father's gaze.