Platyno means “make broad” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H4115 — mahpeketh (“stocks”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G4115 πλατύνω (platuno) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. platuno (plat-oo'-no) v. 1. to widen {literally or figuratively} It has 25 linked Bible usages across 13 books. Visible English usage signals include make. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
platuno (plat-oo'-no) v. 1. to widen {literally or figuratively} [from G4116] KJV: make broad, enlarge Root(s): G4116
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G4115. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
to widen
Usage: πλατύνω (πλατύς), [in LXX chiefly for רָחַב hi. ;] to make broad, enlarge, extend: with accusative of thing(s), Mat.23:5. Metaphorical (cf. Psa.119:32, al.), pass., ἡ καρδία, 2Co.6:11; ὑμεῖς, 2Co.6:13.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render platuno, 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 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, New Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha. 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 G4115 (πλατύνω) appears 22 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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3 indexed usages in New Testament.
But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments,
O ye Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart is enlarged.
Now for a recompence in the same, (I speak as unto my children,) be ye also enlarged.
20 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
May God make room for Japheth, And let him dwell in the habitations of Shem, And let Canaan be his servant.
And he departed thence and dug another well; and they did not strive about that; and he named the name of it, Room, saying, Because now the Lord has made room for us, and has increased us upon the earth.
And thy seed shall be as the sand of the earth; and it shall spread abroad to the sea, and the south, and the north, and to the east; and in thee and in thy seed shall all the tribes of the earth be blessed.
2 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
So he got his people great honor, and put on a breastplate as a giant, and girded his warlike harness about him, and he made battles, protecting the host with his sword.
and enlarged the bounds of his nation, and recovered the country,
First 25 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G4115.
May God make room for Japheth, And let him dwell in the habitations of Shem, And let Canaan be his servant.
And he departed thence and dug another well; and they did not strive about that; and he named the name of it, Room, saying, Because now the Lord has made room for us, and has increased us upon the earth.
And thy seed shall be as the sand of the earth; and it shall spread abroad to the sea, and the south, and the north, and to the east; and in thee and in thy seed shall all the tribes of the earth be blessed.
For when I shall have cast out the nations before thy face, and shall have enlarged thy coasts, no one shall desire thy land, whenever thou mayest go up to appear before the Lord thy God, three times in the year.
take heed to thyself that thy heart be not puffed up, and ye transgress, and serve other gods, and worship them:
So Jacob ate and was filled, And the beloved one kicked; He grew fat, he became thick and broad: Then he forsook the God that made him, And departed from God his Savior.
My heart is established in the Lord, My horn is exalted in my God; My mouth is enlarged over my enemies, I have rejoiced in thy salvation.
When I called upon him, the God of my righteousness heard me: Thou hast made room for me in tribulation; Pity me, and hearken to my prayer.
Thou hast made room for my goings under me, And my footsteps did not fail.
The afflictions of my heart have been multiplied; Deliver me from my distresses.
And they opened wide their mouth upon me; They said, Aha, aha, our eyes have seen it.
For I am the Lord thy God, That brought thee out of the land of Egypt: Open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.
I ran the way of thy commandments, When thou didst enlarge my heart.
fellow citizen, Neither exaggerate with thy lips.
Therefore hell has enlarged its desire and opened its mouth without ceasing: and her glorious and great, and her rich and her pestilent men shall go down into it.
Enlarge the place of thy tent, and of thy curtains: fix the pins, spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy pins;
she has extended her ways over the waters of the desert; she was hurried along by the lusts of her soul; she is given up to them, who will turn her back? none that seek her shall be weary; at the time of her humiliation they shall find her.
Thus saith the Lord, The wall of Babylon was made broad, but it shall be completely broken down, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the peoples shall not labor in vain, nor the nations fail in their rule.
Therefore was his stature exalted above all the trees of the field, and his branches spread far by the help of much water.
But the arrogant man and the scorner, the boastful man, shall not finish anything; who has enlarged his desire as the grave, and like death he is never satisfied, and he will gather to himself all the nations, and will receive to himself all the peoples.
But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments,
O ye Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart is enlarged.
Now for a recompence in the same, (I speak as unto my children,) be ye also enlarged.
So he got his people great honor, and put on a breastplate as a giant, and girded his warlike harness about him, and he made battles, protecting the host with his sword.
and enlarged the bounds of his nation, and recovered the country,
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Platyno (Strong's G4115) is a Greek word most simply glossed "make broad". platuno (plat-oo'-no) v. 1. to widen {literally or figuratively}
This page currently indexes 25 linked usages for Strong's G4115 across 13 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G4115 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as make. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 20 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 2 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G4115, with linked reader references where each row is available.