Strong's Greek · G1137
G1137 gōnía
γωνία
go-nee'-ah
corner
Looking for Hebrew H1137 Bânîy? It has the same number in Strong's Hebrew lexicon but is a different word, not a translation of G1137. Strong's numbering starts again for each language.
gōnía appears 9 times in Scripture, in Matthew, Mark, Luke, Acts, 1 Peter and Revelation. In the Doxa app, open any verse that uses it, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.
Definition
an angle
In the King James Version
corner, quarter
Derivation
probably akin to G1119 (γόνυ);
Appears 9 times in Scripture
“and will go out to deceive the nations in the four corners of the earth—Gog and Magog—to assemble them for battle. Their number is like the sand of the seashore.”
“And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites. For they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men. Truly I tell you, they already have their full reward.”
“After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back its four winds so that no wind would blow on land or sea or on any tree.”
“Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures: ‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone. This is from the Lord, and it is marvelous in our eyes’?”
“For the king knows about these matters, and I can speak freely to him. I am confident that none of this has escaped his notice, because it was not done in a corner.”
“To you who believe, then, this stone is precious. But to those who do not believe, “The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone,””
“But Jesus looked directly at them and said, “Then what is the meaning of that which is written: ‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone’?”
“Have you never read this Scripture: ‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.”
“This Jesus is ‘the stone you builders rejected, which has become the cornerstone.’”
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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).
