1476. hedraios

Strong's Concordance

hedraios: sitting, steadfast

Original Word: ἑδραῖος, αία, αῖον
Part of Speech: Adjective
Transliteration: hedraios
Phonetic Spelling: (hed-rah'-yos)
Short Definition: firm, steadfast
Definition: sitting, seated; steadfast, firm.

HELPS Word-studies

1476 hedraíos (an adjective, derived from aphedrōn, "a seat or base") – properly, sit (solidly-based, well-seated); (figuratlively) steadfast (firm), morally fixed; firm in purpose (mind); "well-stationed" (securely positioned), not given to fluctuation or "moving off course."

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin
from hedra (a seat)
Definition
sitting, steadfast
NASB Translation
firm (1), steadfast (2).

Thayer's Greek Lexicon

STRONGS NT 1476: ἑδραῖος

ἑδραῖος (rarely feminine ἑδραια (Winer's Grammar, § 11, 1)), ἑδραιον (ἕδρα, seat, chair);

1. sitting, sedentary, (Xenophon, Plato, others).

2. firm, immovable, steadfast, (Euripides, Plato, others); in the N. T. metaphorically, of those who are fixed in purpose: 1 Corinthians 15:58; Colossians 1:23; ἕστηκεν ἐν τῇ καρδία, 1 Corinthians 7:37.

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

settled, steadfast.

From a derivative of hezomai (to sit); sedentary, i.e. (by implication) immovable -- settled, stedfast.

Forms and Transliterations

εδραιοι εδραίοι ἑδραῖοι εδραιος εδραίος ἑδραῖος edraioi edraios hedraioi hedraîoi hedraios hedraîos

Englishman's Concordance

Strong's Greek 1476
3 Occurrences

ἑδραῖοι — 2 Occ.
ἑδραῖος — 1 Occ.

1 Corinthians 7:37 Adj-NMS
GRK: καρδίᾳ αὐτοῦ ἑδραῖος μὴ ἔχων
NAS: stands firm in his heart,
KJV: that standeth stedfast in
INT: heart of him firm not having

1 Corinthians 15:58 Adj-NMP
GRK: μου ἀγαπητοί ἑδραῖοι γίνεσθε ἀμετακίνητοι
NAS: brethren, be steadfast, immovable,
KJV: be ye stedfast, unmoveable,
INT: of me beloved firm be immovable

Colossians 1:23 Adj-NMP
GRK: τεθεμελιωμένοι καὶ ἑδραῖοι καὶ μὴ
NAS: firmly established and steadfast, and not moved away
KJV: grounded and settled, and [be] not
INT: established and firm and not

3 Occurrences