Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)
side
Usage: πλευρά, -ᾶς, ἡ [in LXX (frequently pl. as in Hom.) chiefly for צֵלָע ;] the side: Mat.27:49 ([[WH]] R, mg.), Jhn.19:34 20:20, 25 20:27 Act.12:7.† (AS)
Pleura means “side” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H4125 — moabi in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G4125 πλευρά (pleura) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. pleura (plyoo-rah') n. 1. a rib 2. (by extension) side It has 33 linked Bible usages across 14 books. Visible English usage signals include side. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
pleura (plyoo-rah') n. 1. a rib 2. (by extension) side [of uncertain affinity] KJV: side
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side
Usage: πλευρά, -ᾶς, ἡ [in LXX (frequently pl. as in Hom.) chiefly for צֵלָע ;] the side: Mat.27:49 ([[WH]] R, mg.), Jhn.19:34 20:20, 25 20:27 Act.12:7.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render pleura, 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 G4125 (πλευρά) appears 30 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
5 indexed usages in New Testament.
But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water.
And when he had so said, he shewed unto them his hands and his side. Then were the disciples glad, when they saw the LORD.
The other disciples therefore said unto him, We have seen the LORD. But he said unto them, Except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into his side, I will not believe.
23 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And God brought a trance upon Adam, and he slept, and he took one of his ribs, and filled up the flesh instead thereof.
And God formed the rib which he took from Adam into a woman, and brought her to Adam.
And thou shalt put the staffs into the rings; and let the staffs be on the sides of the altar to carry it.
5 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
And then shall the sword of mine army, and the multitude of them that serve me, pass through thy sides, and thou shalt fall among their slain, when I return.
But raising his eyes on high to heaven, the old man’s flesh was stripped off by the scourges, and his blood streamed down, and his sides were pierced through.
And the righteous mother of the seven children spoke also as follows to her offspring: I was a pure virgin, and went not beyond my father’s house; but I took care of the built-up rib.
First 33 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G4125.
And God brought a trance upon Adam, and he slept, and he took one of his ribs, and filled up the flesh instead thereof.
And God formed the rib which he took from Adam into a woman, and brought her to Adam.
And thou shalt put the staffs into the rings; and let the staffs be on the sides of the altar to carry it.
But if ye will not destroy the dwellers in the land from before you, then it shall come to pass that whomsoever of them ye shall leave shall be thorns in your eyes, and darts in your sides, and they shall be enemies to you on the land on which ye shall dwell;
And they seized every one the head of his neighbor with his hand, and his sword was thrust into the side of his neighbor, and they fall down together: and the name of that place was called The portion of the treacherous ones, which is in Gibeon.
And Absalom escaped: and the young man the watchman lifted up his eyes, and looked; and, behold, much people went in the way behind him from the side of the mountain in the descent: and the watchman came and told the king, and said, I have seen men by the way of Horonaim, by the side of the mountain.
And David and all the men with him went on the way: and Shimei went by the side of the hill next to him, cursing as he went, and casting stones at him, and sprinkling him with dirt.
And they buried the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son, and the bones of them that had been hanged, in the land of Benjamin in the hill, in the sepulcher of Kish his father; and they did all things that the king commanded: and after this God hearkened to the prayers of the land.
And against the wall of the house he built chambers round about, against the walls of the house round about, both of the temple and of the oracle: and he made chambers round about:
was five cubits broad, and the middle part six, and the third was seven cubits broad; for he formed an interval to the house round about without the house, that they might not touch the walls of the house.
was below the right wing of the house, and there was a winding ascent into the middle chamber, and from the middle to the third story.
And he built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar, both the floor of the house, and the walls of the ceiling: and he covered them on the inside with wood, and covered the floor of the house with planks of fir.
and a chamber over both the pillars, and above the sides an addition equal to the chamber in width.
And he formed the house with chambers above on the sides of the pillars, and the number of the pillars was each row forty and five,
Nevertheless thou shalt not build the house, but thy son that has proceeded out of thy bowels, he shall build the house to my name.
His sides are sides of brass; And his backbone is as cast iron.
They will take the bed that is under thee.
And he shall have his loins girded with righteousness, and his sides clothed with truth.
Ye did thrust with your sides and shoulders, and pushed with your horns, and ye cruelly treated all the sick.
And he measured the wall of the house, six cubits: and the breadth of each side, four cubits round about.
And the breadth of the upper side was made according to the projection out of the wall, against the upper one round about the house, that it might be enlarged above, and that men might go up to the upper chambers from those below, and from the groundsills to the third story.
And as for the height of the house round about, each space between the sides was equal to a reed of six cubits;
and the breadth of the wall of each side without was five cubits; and the spaces that were left between the sides of the house,
But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water.
And when he had so said, he shewed unto them his hands and his side. Then were the disciples glad, when they saw the LORD.
The other disciples therefore said unto him, We have seen the LORD. But he said unto them, Except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into his side, I will not believe.
Then saith he to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side: and be not faithless, but believing.
And, behold, the angel of the Lord came upon him, and a light shined in the prison: and he smote Peter on the side, and raised him up, saying, Arise up quickly. And his chains fell off from his hands.
And then shall the sword of mine army, and the multitude of them that serve me, pass through thy sides, and thou shalt fall among their slain, when I return.
But raising his eyes on high to heaven, the old man’s flesh was stripped off by the scourges, and his blood streamed down, and his sides were pierced through.
And the righteous mother of the seven children spoke also as follows to her offspring: I was a pure virgin, and went not beyond my father’s house; but I took care of the built-up rib.
Beat his sides while he is still young, Lest becoming stubborn, he disobey thee.
And of merchants’ indifferent selling; Of much correction of children; And to make the side of an evil servant to bleed.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G4125, grouped by book.
Pleura (Strong's G4125) is a Greek word most simply glossed "side". pleura (plyoo-rah') n. 1. a rib 2. (by extension) side
This page currently indexes 33 linked usages for Strong's G4125 across 14 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G4125 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 side. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 23 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 5 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G4125, with linked reader references where each row is available.