Kraspedon means “border” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H2899 — tobadoniahu in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G2899 κράσπεδον (kraspedon) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. kraspedon (kras'-ped-on) n. 1. a margin 2. (specially), a fringe or tassel It has 9 linked Bible usages across 6 books. Visible English usage signals include hem, border, and borders. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
kraspedon (kras'-ped-on) n. 1. a margin 2. (specially), a fringe or tassel [of uncertain derivation] KJV: border, hem
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G2899. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
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Usage: κράσπεδον, -ου, τό [in LXX: Num.15:38-39 (צִיצִת) Deu.22:12, Zec.8:23 (כָּנָף)* ;] __1. in cl., an edge, border. __2. In LXX (see supr.) and NT, a tassel or corner: Mat.9:20 14:36 23:5, Mrk.6:56, Luk.8:44.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render kraspedon, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes New Testament and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G2899 (κράσπεδον) appears 5 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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5 indexed usages in New Testament.
And, behold, a woman, which was diseased with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment:
And besought him that they might only touch the hem of his garment: and as many as touched were made perfectly whole.
But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments,
4 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt tell them; and let them make for themselves fringes upon the borders of their garments throughout their generations: and ye shall put upon the fringes of the borders a lace of blue.
And it shall be on your fringes, and ye shall look on them, and ye shall remember all the commands of the Lord, and do them: and ye shall not turn back after your imaginations, and after the sight of your eyes in the things after which ye go a-whoring;
Thou shalt make fringes on the four borders of thy garments, with whichsoever thou mayest be clothed.
First 9 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G2899.
Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt tell them; and let them make for themselves fringes upon the borders of their garments throughout their generations: and ye shall put upon the fringes of the borders a lace of blue.
And it shall be on your fringes, and ye shall look on them, and ye shall remember all the commands of the Lord, and do them: and ye shall not turn back after your imaginations, and after the sight of your eyes in the things after which ye go a-whoring;
Thou shalt make fringes on the four borders of thy garments, with whichsoever thou mayest be clothed.
Thus saith the Lord Almighty; In those days my word shall be fulfilled if ten men of all the languages of the nations should take hold—even take hold of the hem of a Jew, saying, We will go with thee; for we have heard that God is with you.
And, behold, a woman, which was diseased with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment:
And besought him that they might only touch the hem of his garment: and as many as touched were made perfectly whole.
But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments,
And whithersoever he entered, into villages, or cities, or country, they laid the sick in the streets, and besought him that they might touch if it were but the border of his garment: and as many as touched him were made whole.
Came behind him, and touched the border of his garment: and immediately her issue of blood stanched.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G2899, grouped by book.
Kraspedon (Strong's G2899) is a Greek word most simply glossed "border". kraspedon (kras'-ped-on) n. 1. a margin 2. (specially), a fringe or tassel
This page currently indexes 9 linked usages for Strong's G2899 across 6 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G2899 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as hem, border, and borders. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 4 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament for Strong's G2899, with linked reader references where each row is available.