gōnia · corner

What it means

gōnia (γωνία) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “corner”.

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. Where two walls meet; the main stone of a building.

From Abbott-Smith (1922)

How it is translated

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

• corner ×6
• corners ×3

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Matthew×2
• Mark×1
• Luke×1
• Acts×2
• 1 Peter×1
• Revelation×2

• Matthew 6:5

  “And when you pray, you shall not be like the hypocrites, for they are fond of praying standing in the synagogues and on the corners of the main streets, so that they may be seen by people. Truly I tell you, they have received in full their reward.

• Matthew 21:42

  Jesus says to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures, ‘The stone that the builders rejected, this has become the head of the corner; this came about from the Lord, and it is marvelous in our eyes’?

• Mark 12:10

  Have you not even read this Scripture: ‘The stone that the builders rejected, this has become the head of the corner;

• Luke 20:17

  But he looked at them and said, “What then is this that is written: ‘The stone that the builders rejected, this has become the head of the corner’?

• Acts 4:11

  This one is the stone that was despised by you, the builders, which has become the head of the corner.

• Acts 26:26

  For the king knows about these things, to whom I also speak boldly; for I am not persuaded that any of these things escapes his notice, for this has not been done in a corner.

• 1 Peter 2:7

  To you then who believe is the honor; but to those who do not believe, The stone that the builders rejected, this has become the head of the corner,

• Revelation 7:1

  After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds of the earth, so that no wind would blow on the earth or on the sea or on any tree.

• Revelation 20:8

  and will come out to deceive the nations that are at the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them for the war; their number is like the sand of the sea.