For an Informed Love of God
Bill Mounce
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Πέτρος
Πέτρος, -ου, ὁ (Petros), GK 4377 (S 4074), 156x.
Πέτρος, -ου, ὁ means “Peter”
“Simon Πέτρος answered, saying, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” (Matt 16:16)
Mounce's Expository Dictionary (abridged):
Petros means a stone; in NT the Greek rendering of the surname Cephas, given to the Apostle Simon, and having, therefore, the same sense as πέτρα