What does κεραία (keraía) mean in the Bible?
κεραία (keraía): The smallest distinguishing mark in Hebrew letters, emphasizing Scripture's permanence to minutest detail.
Greek · G2762
κεραία
Tittle
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κεραία G2762
Pronunciation keraía
What does κεραία (keraía) mean in the Bible?
κεραία (keraía): The smallest distinguishing mark in Hebrew letters, emphasizing Scripture's permanence to minutest detail.
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Questions this entry answers
How does the BSB render G2762?
The BSB source-word alignment has 2 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include stroke of a pen (2).
Where does κεραία (keraía) appear in Scripture?
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Matthew 5:18. Its strongest book concentrations include Luke (1), Matthew (1).
Source Word Evidence
BSB source-word alignment connects this entry to exact verse rows, English rendering, source form, transliteration, and parsing.
How English Renders It stroke of a pen 2× Matthew 5:18, Luke 16:17
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Usage map
A compact distribution from source-word alignment before the full evidence tables.
First aligned row Matthew 5:18
Aligned rows 2
Books represented 2
Matthew 1 Luke 1
Source forms
κεραία 1x keraia Matthew 5:18
κεραίαν 1x keraian Luke 16:17
Parsing patterns
Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular 1x Luke 16:17
Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular 1x Matthew 5:18
Evidence Summary
Greek word. The smallest distinguishing mark in Hebrew letters, emphasizing Scripture's permanence to minutest detail.
Strong's G2762
Lexical occurrences 2 verses Greek text appearances 2 times Word forms 2 forms 2 references Verse guides 0 guides
Study link Luke 16:14–18 Source Gloss
tittle
Extended definition Source: STEPBible TBESG + Abbott-Smith
The smallest distinguishing mark in Hebrew letters, emphasizing Scripture's permanence to minutest detail.
(κέρας), a little horn: of the point or extremity which distinguishes some Heb. letters from others (e.g. ד from ר; DCG, ii, 733), Mat.5:18, Luk.16:17.
Greek Text Appearances
Textus Receptus witness, full corpus Greek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
2 Greek text appearances shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
Matthew 5:18 Noun Nominative Singular Feminine
κεραία keraia
an apostrophe
Read verse Luke 16:17 Noun Accusative Singular Feminine
κεραίαν keraian
an apostrophe
Read verseFull New Testament corpus: 260 chapters, 7,957 verses, 140,628 tokens. Data source: honza/textus-receptus (data only), with authority check against byztxt/greektext-textus-receptus.
Grammatical Forms
How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
This word appears as a noun across 2 case and number patterns. The form changes show how the word functions in a sentence; they do not change the basic lexical meaning by themselves.
Form patterns 2 Aligned forms 2 Case pattern Accusative (1) Number pattern Singular (2)
Verse guides are not available for this word yet, so verse references remain plain evidence markers.
Nominative · Singular · Feminine Matt 5:18 1×
Accusative · Singular · Feminine Luke 16:17 1×
Where It Appears in Scripture
Where this word appears in Scripture: passage, original form, and sense in context.
New Testament Witnesses
smallest letter stroke
Additional Occurrences
Luke 16:14–18 κεραία keraía
Stroke, smallest letter part
Word Origins
κεραία is built from this root:
Why This Word Matters
Emphasizes the permanence and precision of Scripture. Luke 16:14–18
Sources
MorphGNT Strong's Dictionary XML — CC0 1.0 Public Domain
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible (morphhb/OSHB) — CC BY 4.0
Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon — CC BY 4.0
Berean Standard Bible (BSB) source-word alignment - CC0 Public Domain