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To: CpnHook
Your grasping. Look at that site you sent me to again. Thayer lists Petros as a root word then includes the two extra letters in his definition including the cliff definition. And I think you should read further in even Thayer to see where the different words are used.

We are told who that πέτρᾳ (petra) is.

1 Corinthians 10:4 And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock (petra) was Christ.

That is from the Holy Spirit through Paul. If you want to argue with the Holy Spirit you go right ahead. I will not.

415 posted on 02/17/2015 5:48:24 AM PST by CynicalBear (For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus)
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To: CynicalBear
Thayer lists Petros as a root word

You are a thick one.

No, it is NOT listed as a root word. Look up above the photographic image I pasted in part to the Strong's portion for 4074 - Petros:

"Root Word (Etymology)

Apparently a primary word

See that? "Petros" is a primary word. It has 6 letters.

In the Thayer's lexicon section it is written as: Πέτρος

That's 6 letters: Pi (P), Epsilon (e), Tau (t), Rho (r), Omicron (o), Sigma (s). No letters were later added in that lexicon entry. It's defining "Petros," a primary word. And it defines "Petros" to include the meaning "rock . . unyielding, and so resembling a rock."

It is laughable that you -- a person whose Greek knowledge is so limited as not to be able even to understand root versus primary word, who can't count to 6 letters in a lexicon entry -- proclaim that these Bible scholars (who very likely have a good to superb knowledge of Greek) are just all wrong.

Right. Got it.

420 posted on 02/17/2015 11:25:06 AM PST by CpnHook
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