Quick Definition
a needle
Strong's Definition
perhaps rather akin to the base of G4474 (ῥαπίζω) through the idea of puncturing); a needle
Derivation: from a primary (to sew;
KJV Usage: needle
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ῤαφίς, ῤαφίδος, ἡ (ῤάπτω to sew), a needle: Mat_19:24; Mar_10:25; Luk_18:25 Rec. ((cf. κάμηλος)). Class. Greek more common uses βελόνη (which see); see Lob. ad Phryn., p. 90; (Winer's Grammar, 25).
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ῥαφίς rhaphis 2x
a needle, Mat_19:24 ; Mar_10:25
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
* ῥαφίς , -ίδος , ἡ
(ῥάπτω , to sew ),
a needle: Mat_19:24 , Mar_10:25 ( cf. βελόνη ).†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ῥαφίς / βελόνη [pages 563, 108]
ῥαφίς
needle, is found in a series of accounts P Oxy IV. 736 .75 ( c . A.D. 1) λίνου καὶ ῥαφίδος (ὀβολός ), thread and needle I ob. : cf. Mat_19:24 , Mar_10:25 . On the relation of ῥαφίς to βελόνη ( Luk_18:25 ), see Rutherford NP p. 174 f.
βελόνη
This medical term for the needle used in surgical operations (see Hobart, Medical Language of St Luke , p. 61) is substituted by Luke for ῥαφίς in Luk_18:25 , but does not occur elsewhere in Bibl. Grk. See for its more general use the magic papyrus P Lond 121 .442 (iii/A.D.) (= I. p. 98) χαλκῷ βελόνῃ ἀκεφάλῳ . MGr βελόνι .
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
ῥαφίς ῥα^φίς, doric ῥαπίς, ίδος, ἡ, [Etym: ῥάπτω] "a needle", Anth.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
ῥαφίς, -ίδος, ἡ
(ῥάπτω, to sew),
a needle: Mat.19:24, Mrk.10:25 (cf. βελόνη).†
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