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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1"/><title>Strong's Greek: 4237. πρασιά (prasia) -- Group, Row, Division</title></title><link rel="canonical" href="http://biblehub.com/greek/4237.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/strongsnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /><script type="application/javascript" src="https://scripts.webcontentassessor.com/scripts/8a2459b64f9cac8122fc7f2eac4409c8555fac9383016db59c4c26e3d5b8b157"></script><script src='https://qd.admetricspro.com/js/biblehub/biblehub-layout-loader-revcatch.js'></script><script id='HyDgbd_1s' src='https://prebidads.revcatch.com/ads.js' type='text/javascript' async></script><script>(function(w,d,b,s,i){var cts=d.createElement(s);cts.async=true;cts.id='catchscript'; cts.dataset.appid=i;cts.src='https://app.protectsubrev.com/catch_rp.js?cb='+Math.random(); document.head.appendChild(cts); }) (window,document,'head','script','rc-anksrH');</script></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="/interlinear/vmenus/matthew/5-48.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="//biblehu.com/bmstrongs/greek/4237.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/">Bible</a> > <a href="/strongs.htm">Strong's</a> > <a href="/englishmans_greek.htm">Greek</a> > 4237</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../greek/4236.htm" title="4236">◄</a> 4237. prasia <a href="../greek/4238.htm" title="4238">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Strong's Lexicon</div><div align="left"><span class="toptitle2">prasia: Group, Row, Division</span></div><p><span class="tophdg">Original Word: </span><span class="greek">πρασιά</span><br><span class="tophdg">Part of Speech: </span>Noun, Feminine<br><span class="tophdg">Transliteration: </span>prasia<br><span class="tophdg">Pronunciation: </span>prah-see-AH<br><span class="tophdg">Phonetic Spelling: </span>(pras-ee-ah')<br><span class="tophdg">Definition: </span>Group, Row, Division<br><span class="tophdg">Meaning: </span>a company formed into divisions (like garden-beds).<p><span class="tophdg">Word Origin: </span>Derived from the Greek word "prasinos," meaning "green."<p><span class="tophdg">Corresponding Greek / Hebrew Entries: </span>While there is no direct Hebrew equivalent for "prasia," the concept of orderly arrangement can be related to terms like "machaneh" (Strong's Hebrew 4264), meaning "camp" or "encampment," which also implies organization and structure.<p><span class="tophdg">Usage: </span>The term "prasia" is used in the New Testament to describe an orderly arrangement or grouping, particularly in the context of people being organized into groups or rows. It conveys the idea of structured organization, often for the purpose of facilitating an activity or event.<p><span class="tophdg">Cultural and Historical Background: </span>In the ancient world, particularly in Jewish and Greco-Roman contexts, organizing people into groups was a common practice for managing large crowds. This was especially relevant during public gatherings, feasts, or teaching sessions. The orderly arrangement allowed for efficient distribution of resources or information, reflecting a sense of order and community.<div class="vheading2">NAS Exhaustive Concordance</div><span class="hdg">Word Origin</span><br>from prason (a leek)<br><span class="hdg">Definition</span><br>a garden bed<br><span class="hdg">NASB Translation</span><br>groups (1).<p><div align="center"><span class="smalltext"><iframe width="100%" height="85" scrolling=no src="/nasec.htm" frameborder=0 cellpadding=0></iframe></span></div><div class="vheading2">Thayer's Greek Lexicon</div><span class="maintitle">STRONGS NT 4237: πρασιά</span><br><br><span class="arttitle"><span class="grktitle">πρασιά</span></span>, <span class="greek2">πρασιας</span>, <span class="greek2">ἡ</span>, <span class="accented">a plot of ground, a garden-bed,</span> <span class="abbreviation">Homer</span>, Odyssey 7, 127; 24, 247; <span class="abbreviation">Theophrastus</span>, hist. plant. 4, 4, 3; <span class="abbreviation">Nicander</span>, <span class="abbreviation">Dioscorides</span> (<DATE_RANGE:100 A.D.>?), others; Sir. 24:31; <span class="greek2">ἀνέπεσον</span> <span class="greek2">πρασιαί</span> <span class="greek2">πρασιαί</span> (a Hebraism), i. e. they reclined in ranks or divisions, so that the several ranks formed, as it were, separate plots, <a href="/interlinear/mark/6-40.htm">Mark 6:40</a>; cf. Gesenius, Lehrgeb., p. 669; (Hebrew Gram. § 106, 4; <span class="abbreviation">Buttmann</span>, 30 (27); <span class="abbreviation">Winer</span>'s Grammar, 464 (432) also) § 37, 3; (where add from the O. T. <span class="greek2">συνήγαγον</span> <span class="greek2">αὐτούς</span> <span class="greek2">θημωνιας</span> <span class="greek2">θημωνιας</span>, <a href="/interlinear/exodus/8-14.htm">Exodus 8:14</a>).<FOOTNOTE:1> <br><br><iframe width="100%" height="85" scrolling=no src="/bsoft.htm" frameborder=0 cellpadding=0></iframe><div class="vheading2">Strong's Exhaustive Concordance</div>a group<p>Perhaps from prason (a leek, and so an onion-patch); a garden plot, i.e. (by implication, of regular beds) a row (repeated in plural by Hebraism, to indicate an arrangement) -- in ranks. <div class="vheading2">Forms and Transliterations</div>πράσα πράσει πράσεων πράσεως πρασιαι πρασιαί πρασιαὶ πράσιν πράσινος πράσις prasiai prasiaì<div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/interlinear/matthew/1-1.htm">Interlinear Greek</a> • <a href="/interlinear/genesis/1-1.htm">Interlinear Hebrew</a> • <a href="/strongs.htm">Strong's Numbers</a> • <a href="/englishmans_greek.htm">Englishman's Greek Concordance</a> • <a href="/englishmans_hebrew.htm">Englishman's Hebrew Concordance</a> • <a href="/texts/matthew/1-1.htm">Parallel Texts</a></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheading">Englishman's Concordance</div><b><a href="/text/mark/6-40.htm" title="Biblos Lexicon">Mark 6:40</a> <a href="/abbrev.htm" title="Noun - Nominative Feminine Plural">N-NFP</a></b><br><a href="/interlinear/mark/6.htm" title="Greek">GRK:</a> <span class="greek3">καὶ ἀνέπεσαν <b>πρασιαὶ</b> πρασιαὶ κατὰ</span><br><a href="http://biblehub.com/nas/mark/6.htm" title="New American Standard Bible">NAS:</a> They sat down <span class="itali">in groups</span> of hundreds<br><a href="/kjvs/mark/6.htm" title="King James Bible with Strong's">KJV:</a> they sat down <span class="itali">in ranks,</span> by<br><a href="/interlinear/mark/6-40.htm" title="Biblos Interlinear Bible">INT:</a> And they sat down <span class="itali">groups</span> [by] groups by<p><b><a href="/text/mark/6-40.htm" title="Biblos Lexicon">Mark 6:40</a> <a href="/abbrev.htm" title="Noun - Nominative Feminine Plural">N-NFP</a></b><br><a href="/interlinear/mark/6.htm" title="Greek">GRK:</a> <span class="greek3">ἀνέπεσαν πρασιαὶ <b>πρασιαὶ</b> κατὰ ἑκατὸν</span><br><a href="/interlinear/mark/6-40.htm" title="Biblos Interlinear Bible">INT:</a> they sat down groups <span class="itali">[by] groups</span> by hundreds<p><b><a href="/greek/4237.htm">Strong's Greek 4237</a><br><a href="/greek/strongs_4237.htm">2 Occurrences</a></b><br><br><a href="/greek/prasiai_4237.htm">πρασιαὶ — 2 Occ.</a><br><br></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script><br /><br /> </div> <div id="left"><a href="/greek/4236.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="4236"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="4236" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/greek/4238.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="4238"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="4238" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchap.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>