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G4237

πρασιά

prasia

Feminine noun · Perhaps from prason (a leek, and so an onion-patch)

Perhaps from πράσον práson (a leek, and so an onion-patch); a garden plot, i.e. (by implication, of regular beds) a row (repeated in plural by Hebraism, to indicate an arrangement):—in ranks.

Outline

  1. a plot of ground, a garden bed
  2. Hebrew idiom i.e. they reclined in ranks or divisions, so that several ranks formed, as it were separate plots

Usages

Mark 6:40

And they sat down in ranks, by hundreds, and by fifties.

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