petra · rock

What it means

petra (πέτρα) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “rock”.

Bedrock.

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. A large, hard stone, a firm base to build on.

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

How it is translated

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

• rock ×12
• rocks ×3

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Matthew×5
• Mark×1
• Luke×3
• Romans×1
• 1 Corinthians×2
• 1 Peter×1
• Revelation×2

• Matthew 7:24

  “So everyone who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock.

• Matthew 7:25

  And the rain came down, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it did not fall, for it had been founded on the rock.

• Matthew 16:18

  And I also tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my assembly, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.

• Matthew 27:51

  And look, the curtain of the sanctuary was torn in two, from top to bottom; and the earth was shaken, and the rocks were split;

• Matthew 27:60

  and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had cut in the rock; and after rolling a large stone to the door of the tomb, he went away.

• Mark 15:46

  And having bought a linen cloth, he took him down, wrapped him in the linen cloth, and laid him in a tomb that had been hewn out of the rock; and he rolled a stone against the entrance of the tomb.

• Luke 6:48

  he is like a man building a house, who dug and went deep and laid a foundation on the rock; and when a flood came, the river burst against that house and could not shake it, because it had been well built.

• Luke 8:6

  And other seed fell on the rock, and when it had grown, it withered because it had no moisture.

• Luke 8:13

  And those on the rock are the ones who, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root; they believe for a while, and in a time of testing fall away.

• Romans 9:33

  as it is written: Look, I am laying in Zion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense, and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame.

• 1 Corinthians 10:4

  and all drank the same spiritual drink; for they were drinking from a spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was the Messiah.

• 1 Peter 2:8

  and A stone of stumbling and a rock of offense. They stumble because they disobey the word, and to this they were also destined.

• Revelation 6:15

  And the kings of the earth and the great ones and the commanders and the rich and the strong and every slave and free person hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains;

• Revelation 6:16

  and they say to the mountains and to the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of the one who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb;

And 1 more times.