πλατύς
broad
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Adjective
- A word that describes or qualifies a noun.
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G4116 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Matthew 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
At its core, πλατυς (platýs) means “broad.” The Greek New Testament uses it only 1 verse. Its uses cluster heavily in Matthew (100% of all occurrences). Its lone occurrence is Matthew 7:13. Sharing its root, it stands alongside πλασσω, πλαξ and πλασμα. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G4116 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 1 of 27 New Testament books.
- #3,503
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 3,503 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Matthew 1 verse 100%
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 1 distinct verse.
- Gospels 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Wide 1×
- American Standard Version: Wide 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Wide 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Wide 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G4116 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G4116 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G4116 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G4116 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 1 sense Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- broad
Word origin
Derived from πλασσω (plássō) (G4111) — to form.
From G4111 ; spread out flat (plot) that is broad : - wide.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G4116, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- πλαξ pláx G4109 flat surface
- πλασμα plásma G4110 formed object
- πλαστος plastós G4112 formed
- πλησσω plḗssō G4141 to strike
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 9 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word πλατυς appears 51 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 50 verses in 19 books.
- 51
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 50
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 19 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 19 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 19:2 πλατύς
- Judges 19:15 πλατύς
- 2 Samuel 21:12 πλατύς
- 1 Kings 7:43 πλατύς
- 2 Chronicles 32:6 πλατύς
- Ezra 10:9 πλατύς
- Esther 4:1 πλατύς
- Job 29:7 πλατύς
- Psalms 17:43 πλατύς
- Proverbs 1:20 πλατύς
- Song of Solomon 3:2 πλατύς
- Isaiah 15:3 πλατύς
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G4116) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 19:2 πλατύς and he said, "See now, my lords, please turn aside into your servant's house, stay all night, wash your feet, and you will rise up early, and go on your way." They said, "No, but we will stay in the street all night."
- Genesis 34:10 πλατύς You shall dwell with us: and the land will be before you. Live and trade in it, and get possessions in it."
- Genesis 34:21 πλατύς "These men are peaceful with us. Therefore let them live in the land and trade in it. For, behold, the land is large enough for them. Let us take their daughters to us for wives, and let us give them our daughters.
- Judges 19:15 πλατύς They turned aside there, to go in to lodge in Gibeah: and he went in, and sat him down in the street of the city; for there was no man who took them into his house to lodge.
- Judges 19:17 πλατύς He lifted up his eyes, and saw the wayfaring man in the street of the city; and the old man said, Where go you? and whence come you?
- Judges 19:20 πλατύς The old man said, Peace be to you; howsoever let all your wants lie on me; only don't lodge in the street.
- 2 Samuel 21:12 πλατύς David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabesh Gilead, who had stolen them from the street of Beth-shan, where the Philistines had hanged them, in the day that the Philistines killed Saul in Gilboa;
- 1 Kings 7:43 πλατύς and the ten bases, and the ten basins on the bases;
- 2 Chronicles 32:6 πλατύς He set captains of war over the people, and gathered them together to him in the broad place at the gate of the city, and spoke comfortably to them, saying,
- Ezra 10:9 πλατύς Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves together to Jerusalem within the three days; it was the ninth month, on the twentieth [day] of the month: and all the people sat in the broad place before the house of God, trembling because of this matter, and for the great rain.
- Ezra 13:8 πλατύς
- Ezra 14:13 πλατύς
- Ezra 17:4 πλατύς
- Ezra 18:16 πλατύς
- Ezra 19:35 πλατύς
- Ezra 22:38 πλατύς
- Esther 4:1 πλατύς Now when Mordecai knew all that was done, Mordecai tore his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and cried with a loud and a bitter cry;
- Job 29:7 πλατύς When I went forth to the city gate, When I prepared my seat in the street,
- Psalms 17:43 πλατύς
- Psalms 54:12 πλατύς
- Psalms 143:14 πλατύς
- Proverbs 1:20 πλατύς Wisdom calls aloud in the street. She utters her voice in the public squares.
- Proverbs 5:16 πλατύς Should your springs overflow in the streets, Streams of water in the public squares?
- Proverbs 7:6 πλατύς For at the window of my house, I looked out through my lattice.
- Proverbs 7:12 πλατύς Now she is in the streets, now in the squares, And lurking at every corner.
- Proverbs 9:14 πλατύς She sits at the door of her house, On a seat in the high places of the city,
- Proverbs 22:13 πλατύς The sluggard says, "There is a lion outside! I will be killed in the streets!"
- Song of Solomon 3:2 πλατύς I will get up now, and go about the city; In the streets and in the squares I will seek him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I didn't find him.
- Isaiah 15:3 πλατύς In their streets they gird themselves with sackcloth; on their housetops, and in their broad places, everyone wails, weeping abundantly.
- Isaiah 33:21 πλατύς But there Yahweh will be with us in majesty, a place of broad rivers and streams, in which shall go no galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship pass thereby.
- Jeremiah 5:1 πλατύς Run you back and forth through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places of it, if you can find a man, if there are any who does justly, who seeks truth; and I will pardon her.
- Jeremiah 9:20 πλατύς Yet hear the word of Yahweh, you women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth; and teach your daughters wailing, and everyone her neighbor lamentation.
- Jeremiah 27:30 πλατύς
- Jeremiah 30:32 πλατύς
- Jeremiah 31:38 πλατύς Behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that the city shall be built to Yahweh from the tower of Hananel to the gate of the corner.
- Lamentations 2:11 πλατύς My eyes do fail with tears, my heart is troubled; My liver is poured on the earth, because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, Because the young children and the infants swoon in the streets of the city.
- Lamentations 2:12 πλατύς They tell their mothers, Where is grain and wine? When they swoon as the wounded in the streets of the city, When their soul is poured out into their mothers' bosom.
- Lamentations 4:18 πλατύς They hunt our steps, so that we can't go in our streets: Our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.
- Ezekiel 7:19 πλατύς They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be as an unclean thing; their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of Yahweh: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels; because it has been the stumbling block of their iniquity.
- Ezekiel 16:24 πλατύς that you have built to you a vaulted place, and have made you a lofty place in every street.
- Ezekiel 16:31 πλατύς in that you build your vaulted place at the head of every way, and make your lofty place in every street, and have not been as a prostitute, in that you scorn pay.
- Ezekiel 23:32 πλατύς Thus says the Lord Yahweh: You shall drink of your sister's cup, which is deep and large; you shall ridiculed and had in derision; it contains much.
- Ezekiel 26:11 πλατύς With the hoofs of his horses shall he tread down all your streets; he shall kill your people with the sword; and the pillars of your strength shall go down to the ground.
- Ezekiel 28:23 πλατύς For I will send pestilence into her, and blood into her streets; and the wounded shall fall in the midst of her, with the sword on her on every side; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
- Ezekiel 48:15 πλατύς The five thousand that are left in the breadth, in front of the twenty-five thousand, shall be for common use, for the city, for dwelling and for suburbs; and the city shall be in the midst of it.
- Daniel 12:2 πλατύς Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
- Amos 5:16 πλατύς Therefore thus says Yahweh, the God of hosts, the Lord: "Wailing will be in all the broad ways; And they will say in all the streets, 'Alas! Alas!' And they will call the farmer to mourning, And those who are skillful in lamentation to wailing.
- Nahum 2:5 πλατύς He summons his picked troops. They stumble on their way. They dash to its wall, and the protective shield is put in place.
- Zechariah 8:4 πλατύς Thus says Yahweh of Hosts: "Old men and old women will again dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, every man with his staff in his hand for very age.
- Zechariah 8:5 πλατύς The streets of the city will be full of boys and girls playing in its streets."
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G4116) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.