Word Summary
keraia: a little horn
Original Word: κεραίαTransliteration: keraia
Phonetic Spelling: (ker-ah'-yah)
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Short Definition: a little horn
Meaning: a little horn
Strong's Concordance
tittle, stroke
Feminine of a presumed derivative of the base of keras; something horn-like, i.e. (specially) the apex of a Hebrew letter (figuratively, the least particle) -- tittle.
see GREEK keras
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 2762: κεραίακεραία (
WH κέρεα (see their Appendix, p. 151)),
κεραιας,
ἡ (
κέρας),
a little horn; extremity, apex, point; used by the Greek grammarians of the accents and diacritical points. In
Matthew 5:18 ((where see
Wetstein; cf. also Edersheim, Jesus the Messiah, 1:537f));
Luke 16:17 of the little lines, or projections, by which the Hebrew letters in other respects similar differ from each other, as cheth
ח and he
ה, daleth
ד and resh
ר, beth
ב and kaph
כ (
A. V. tittle); the meaning is, 'not even the minutest part of the law shall perish.' ((
Aeschylus,
Thucydides, others.))
STRONGS NT 2762: κέρεα [κέρεα, see κεραία.]