plateia · street, square

What it means

plateia (πλατεῖα) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “street, square”.

Wide street, main street, square.

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 wide city road.
2. Having much room from side to side.

From Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

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

• street ×3
• streets ×3
• wide ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Matthew×1
• Luke×2
• Acts×1
• Revelation×3

• Matthew 7:13

  “Enter through the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and spacious the way that leads to destruction, and many are those who enter through it;

• Luke 10:10

  But whatever city you enter and they do not receive you, go out into its streets and say,

• Luke 14:21

  And the slave came and reported these things to his master. Then the master of the house, angry, said to his slave, ‘Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in here the poor and crippled and blind and lame.’

• Acts 5:15

  so that they even carried out the sick into the streets and laid them on cots and mats, so that when Peter came by, at least his shadow might fall on some of them.

• Revelation 11:8

  And their corpse will lie in the street of the great city, which is called spiritually Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified.

• Revelation 21:21

  And the twelve gates were twelve pearls; each of the gates was made from a single pearl. And the street of the city was pure gold, like transparent glass.

• Revelation 22:2

  in the middle of its street. And on either side of the river was the tree of life, producing twelve crops of fruit, yielding its fruit each month; and the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations.