Word study

Street

4 Hebrew and 2 Greek words behind this English word

The original-language words that the Berean Standard Bible translates with one of these: streets, street. English often uses one word where Hebrew or Greek has several, each with its own shade of meaning. Under each word are verses where it is translated this way; choose the word itself for its full study: every verse, how else it is translated, the forms it takes and what the dictionaries say.

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How often each original word is translated “street” or one of its forms.

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Hebrew and Aramaic words (Old Testament)

  • חוּץ chûtsthe outsidetranslated this way 50 times of its 156 uses · Strong’s H2351Noun  ·  Translated: outside 70, streets 38, out 11, street 11

    Joshua 2:19 If anyone goes out the door of your house into the street, his blood will be on his own head, and we will be innocent. But if a hand is laid on anyone with you in the house, his blood will be on our heads.

    2 Samuel 1:20 Tell it not in Gath; proclaim it not in the streets of Ashkelon, lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, and the daughters of the uncircumcised exult.

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  • רְחֹב rechôbbroad open place, plazatranslated this way 11 times of its 42 uses · Strong’s H7339Noun  ·  Translated: square 13, streets 10, public square 7, squares 4

    Psalm 55:11 Destruction is within; oppression and deceit never leave the streets.

    Proverbs 22:13 The slacker says, “There is a lion outside! I will be slain in the streets!”

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  • שׁוּק shûqstreettranslated this way 4 times of its 4 uses · Strong’s H7784Noun  ·  Translated: street 2, streets 2

    Proverbs 7:8 crossing the street near her corner, strolling down the road to her house,

    Ecclesiastes 12:4 when the doors to the street are shut and the sound of the mill fades away, when one rises at the sound of a bird and all the daughters of song grow faint,

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  • דֶּרֶךְ derekway, road, distance, journey, mannertranslated this way 2 times of its 653 uses · Strong’s H1870Noun  ·  Translated: way 204, ways 166, road 54, journey 35Full study and all 595 verses →

Greek words (New Testament)

  • πλατεῖα plateîaa streettranslated this way 9 times of its 9 uses · Strong’s G4113Noun  ·  Translated: streets 5, street 2, main street 2

    Matthew 6:5 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.

    Luke 10:10 But if you enter a town and they do not welcome you, go into the streets and declare,

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  • ῥύμη rhýmēa street, lanetranslated this way 2 times of its 4 uses · Strong’s G4505Noun  ·  Translated: streets 1, alleys 1, Street 1, block 1

    Matthew 6:2 So when you give to the needy, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by men. Truly I tell you, they already have their full reward.

    Acts 9:11 “Get up!” the Lord told him. “Go to the house of Judas on Straight Street and ask for a man from Tarsus named Saul, for he is praying.

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How to study a word well
  1. Start from the verse, not the dictionary. Find which Hebrew or Greek word stands in the verse you are studying. One English word often translates several different original words.
  2. Read every place the word is used. A word means what its writers used it to mean. The list of verses and the count by book show its range, and who uses it most.
  3. Look at how it is translated. A word rendered five different ways has a wider meaning than any one English word can carry.
  4. Notice the form. A command is not a statement, and a passive verb is something done to the subject. The form in your verse is part of the meaning.
  5. See what it keeps company with. The words that appear beside it again and again show how the Bible itself connects ideas.
  6. Then read the dictionaries. They give the considered view of scholars, with their evidence.
  7. Come back to the verse. Context decides. A word does not carry every one of its meanings into every verse, and where a word came from does not settle what it means in a sentence written centuries later.

Scripture text and translation counts: Berean Standard Bible. Full entry: Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906, public domain), in the digital edition Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced by unfoldingWord (Joel Ruark, J. de Joode), based on data by Eliran Wong and Stephen Ku; its additions are used under CC BY 4.0. Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project, CC BY 4.0. Hebrew-to-English verse numbering: original work of the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible available at https://github.com/openscriptures/morphhb, CC BY 4.0. We reformatted the data, linked the references to this site’s Bible text and left out words in other scripts that the source holds only as images. These are historical reference works; an entry gives its authors’ view, and a word’s meaning in any verse depends on how it is used there.