[B-Greek] petros and petras

Richard Ghilardi qodeshlayhvh at juno.com
Fri Sep 5 12:48:13 EDT 2003


Hi Everyone,

> -- "Kevin Riley" <klriley at alphalink.com.au> wrote:
> So if you wanted to use 'Petra' as the name for a man -  to show he 
> was a
> 'massive rock', how would that be turned into a masculine Greek 
> name?

That's easy.

If you wanted a masculine name that reflected the meaning of PETRA you
would use PETRAS, -OU or -A.

Here are a few in the NT with the genitive in -OU:

AINEAS
ANDREAS
HLIAS
IWSIAS
LUSIAS
OURIAS
SIMAIAS

And some with a genitive in -A:

AGRIPPAS
BARABBAS
DHMAS
EPAFRAS
hERMAS
ZHNAS
SILAS

BUT if you wanted a masculine name that reflected the meaning of PETROS,
you would simply use the word PETROS unchanged! PETROS, of course, means
a piece of rock small enough for a man to move.

Yours in His grace,

Richard Ghilardi -- qodeshlayhvh at juno.com
New Haven, CT USA



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