πρασιά, πρασιας, ἡ, a plot of ground, a garden-bed, Homer, Odyssey 7, 127; 24, 247; Theophrastus, hist. plant. 4, 4, 3; Nicander, Dioscorides (?), others; Sir_24:31; ἀνέπεσον πρασιαί πρασιαί (a Hebraism), i. e. they reclined in ranks or divisions, so that the several ranks formed, as it were, separate plots, Mar_6:40; cf. Gesenius, Lehrgeb., p. 669; (Hebrew Gram. § 106, 4; Buttmann, 30 (27); Winer's Grammar, 464 (432) also) § 37, 3; (where add from the O. T. συνήγαγον αὐτούς θημωνιας θημωνιας, Exo_8:14).

πρασιά prasia 2x a small area or bed in a garden; trop. a company of persons disposed in squares; from the Hebrew, πρασιαὶ πρασιαί , by areas, by squares, like beds in a garden, Mar_6:40

** πρασιά , -ᾶς , ἡ , [in LXX : Sir_24:31 * ;] a garden-bed; metaph ., of ranks or orderly groups of persons: Mar_6:40 .†

πρασιά [page 533] properly a bed of garden herbs, or of leeks (if derived from πράσον ) : cf. BGU II. 530 .27 (i/A.D.) (= Selections , p. 62) μόλις γὰρ μίαν πρασεὰν ποτίζι τὸ ὕδωρ , for there is hardly a single plot which the water irrigates. In the colloquial πρασιαὶ πρασιαί of Mar_6:40 the reference is to regularity of arrangement rather than to variety of colouring : Hesych. πρασιαί· αἱ ἐν τοῖς κήποις τετράγωνοι λαχανιαί . For the reiteration πρασιαὶ πρασιαί (cf. also Mar_6:7 ; Mar_6:39 ) see Proleg. p. 97 and Headlam s note to Herodas IV. 61 θερμὰ θερμὰ πηδεῦσαι . A Rabbinic explanation of Mar_6:40 will be found in Exp. VIII. vii. p. 89 f.

πρασιά πρα^σιά, ionic -ιή, ἡ, [Etym: πράσον] properly "a bed of leeks": generally, "a garden-plot", Od. :—metaph., πρασιαὶ πρασιαί "in companies or groups", NTest.

πρασιά, -ᾶς, ἡ [in LXX: Sir.24:31 * ;] a garden-bed; metaphorically, of ranks or orderly groups of persons: Mrk.6:40.† (AS)