kraspedon · tassel, edge

What it means

kraspedon (κράσπεδον) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “tassel, edge”.

Tassel of a cloak, which the Law commanded to be worn on its corners (Numbers 15:38); also an edge.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. The hem of a cloak with hanging threads.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• fringe ×4
• tassels ×1

Where it appears

• Matthew×3
• Mark×1
• Luke×1

• Matthew 9:20

  And look, a woman who had been suffering from bleeding for twelve years came up behind him and touched the fringe of his cloak;

• Matthew 14:36

  and they were begging him that they might only touch the fringe of his cloak; and all who touched it were made well.

• Matthew 23:5

  And they do all their works to be seen by people; for they make wide their phylacteries and make long the tassels,

• Mark 6:56

  And wherever he went, into villages or into towns or into the countryside, they were laying the sick in the marketplaces, and begging him that they might touch even the fringe of his cloak; and all who touched him were made well.

• Luke 8:44

  came up behind him and touched the fringe of his cloak, and immediately her flow of blood stopped.