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
κεραία (keraía): The smallest distinguishing mark in Hebrew letters, emphasizing Scripture's permanence to minutest detail.
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κεραίαG2762
Pronunciationkeraía
What does κεραία (keraía) mean in the Bible?
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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 Itstroke of a pen2×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 rowMatthew 5:18
Aligned rows2
Books represented2
Matthew1Luke1
Source forms
κεραία1xkeraiaMatthew 5:18
κεραίαν1xkeraianLuke 16:17
Parsing patterns
Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular1xLuke 16:17
Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular1xMatthew 5:18
Evidence Summary
Greek word. The smallest distinguishing mark in Hebrew letters, emphasizing Scripture's permanence to minutest detail.
Strong'sG2762
Lexical occurrences2 versesGreek text appearances2 timesWord forms2 forms2 referencesVerse guides0 guides
Study linkLuke 16:14–18Source Gloss
tittle
Extended definitionSource: 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 corpusGreek 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 5:18Noun Nominative Singular Feminine
κεραίαkeraia
an apostrophe
Read verseLuke 16:17Noun Accusative Singular Feminine
κεραίανkeraian
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 patterns2Aligned forms2Case patternAccusative (1)Number patternSingular (2)
Verse guides are not available for this word yet, so verse references remain plain evidence markers.
Nominative · Singular · FeminineMatt 5:181×
Accusative · Singular · FeminineLuke 16:171×
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 16:14–18κεραίαkeraía
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