Strong's Greek · G1137
γωνία
gōnía
corner, quarter
Definition
an angle
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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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).