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Strong's G4116 πλατύς (platys)

Platys means “wide” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's H4116 — mahar (“be carried headlong”) in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G4116
Language Greek
Linked Usages 58
Books 24

Strong's G4116 Quick Answer

Strong's G4116 πλατύς (platus) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. platus (plat-oos') adj. 1. spread out "flat" ("plot"), i.e. broad [from G4111] It has 58 linked Bible usages across 24 books. Visible English usage signals include broad. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Meaning
platus (plat-oos') adj. 1. spread out "flat" ("plot"), i.e. broad [from G4111]
Usage
58 linked usages
Books
24 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Usage Words
broad

Meaning and Definition

platus (plat-oos') adj. 1. spread out "flat" ("plot"), i.e. broad [from G4111] KJV: wide Root(s): G4111

Original Word
πλατύς
Transliteration
platus
Derivation
Root: πλάσσω R1: 4111
Morphology
adjective

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G4116. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)

street

Usage: πλατύς, -εῖα, -ύ [in LXX for רָחָב ;] broad: Mat.7:13. As subst., ἡ π. (sc. ὁδός), [in LXX chiefly for רָחָב ;] a street: Mat.6:5 12:19" (LXX), Mrk.6:56, WH, mg., Luk.10:10 13:26 14:21, Act.5:15, Rev.11:8 21:21 22:2.† (AS)

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How Strong's G4116 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render platus, 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.

broad Matthew 7:13

How Strong's G4116 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and New 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.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Septuagint / Greek Old Testament with 48 linked usages.
  • This page lets readers compare New Testament usage with Septuagint / Greek Old Testament usage, which is a key THF advantage over narrower Strong's pages.
  • Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha rows are counted separately so readers can decide how those texts relate to the main word study.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G4116 (πλατύς) appears 58 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G4116 by Corpus

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.

Strong's G4116 in the New Testament

1 indexed usage in New Testament.

Matthew 7:13 KJV

Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:

Strong's G4116 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

48 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Genesis 19:2 Septuagint / Brenton

Lo! my lords, turn aside to the house of your servant, and rest from your journey, and wash your feet, and having risen early in the morning ye shall depart on your journey. And they said, Nay, but we will lodge in the street.

Genesis 34:10 Septuagint / Brenton

And dwell in the midst of us; and, behold, the land is spacious before you, dwell in it, and trade, and get possessions in it.

Genesis 34:21 Septuagint / Brenton

These men are peaceable, let them dwell with us upon the land, and let them trade in it, and behold the land is extensive before them; we will take their daughters to us for wives, and we will give them our daughters.

Strong's G4116 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

9 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Judith 1:14 Septuagint / Brenton

and became lord of his cities, and came unto Ecbatana, and took the towers, and spoiled the streets thereof, and turned the beauty thereof into shame.

Judith 7:14 Septuagint / Brenton

So they and their wives and their children shall be consumed with famine, and before the sword come against them, they shall be overthrown in the streets where they dwell.

Judith 7:22 Septuagint / Brenton

Therefore their young children were out of heart, and their women and young men fainted for thirst, and fell down in the streets of the city, and by the passages of the gates, and there was no longer any strength in them.

Usage Excerpts

First 58 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G4116.

Genesis 19:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Lo! my lords, turn aside to the house of your servant, and rest from your journey, and wash your feet, and having risen early in the morning ye shall depart on your journey. And they said, Nay, but we will lodge in the street.
Genesis 34:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And dwell in the midst of us; and, behold, the land is spacious before you, dwell in it, and trade, and get possessions in it.
Genesis 34:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
These men are peaceable, let them dwell with us upon the land, and let them trade in it, and behold the land is extensive before them; we will take their daughters to us for wives, and we will give them our daughters.
Judges 19:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they turned aside thence to go in to lodge in Gibeah; and they went in, and sat down in the street of the city, and there was no one who conducted them into a house to lodge.
Judges 19:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he lifted up his eyes, and saw a traveler in the street of the city; and the old man said to him, Whither goest thou, and whence comest thou?
Judges 19:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the old man said, Peace be to thee; only be every want of thine upon me, only do thou by no means lodge in the street.
3 Kingdoms 7:43 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he made the porch of the pillars, they were fifty cubits long and fifty broad, the porch joining them in front; and the other pillars and the thick beam were in front of the house by the porches.
2 Chronicles 32:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he appointed captains of war over the people, and they were gathered to meet him to the open place of the gate of the valley, and he encouraged them, saying,
Ezra 10:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves together unto Jerusalem within three days. It was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month; and all the people sat in the street of the house of God, trembling because of this matter, and for the great rain.
Nehemiah 3:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Next unto him repaired Uzziel the son of Harhaiah, of the goldsmiths. Next unto him also repaired Hananiah the son of one of the apothecaries, and they fortified Jerusalem unto the broad wall.
Nehemiah 4:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Therefore set I in the lower places behind the wall, and on the higher places, I even set the people after their families with their swords, their spears, and their bows.
Nehemiah 7:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Now the city was large and great: but the people were few therein, and the houses were not builded.
Nehemiah 8:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
So the people went forth, and brought them, and made themselves booths, every one upon the roof of his house, and in their courts, and in the courts of the house of God, and in the street of the water gate, and in the street of the gate of Ephraim.
Nehemiah 9:35 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For they have not served thee in their kingdom, and in thy great goodness that thou gavest them, and in the large and fat land which thou gavest before them, neither turned they from their wicked works.
Nehemiah 12:38 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the other company of them that gave thanks went over against them, and I after them, and the half of the people upon the wall, from beyond the tower of the furnaces even unto the broad wall;
Esther 4:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But Mordecai having perceived what was done, rent his garments, and put on sackcloth, and sprinkled dust upon himself; and having rushed forth through the open street of the city, he cried with a loud voice, A nation that has done no wrong is going to be destroyed.
Job 29:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
When I went forth early in the city, And the seat was placed for me in the streets.
Psalms 17:43 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
I will grind them as the mud of the streets: And I will beat them small as dust before the wind.
Psalms 54:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And usury and craft have not failed from its streets.
Psalms 143:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Their oxen are fat: There is no falling down of a hedge, nor going out, Nor cry in their folds.
Proverbs 1:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Wisdom sings aloud in passages, And in the broad places speaks boldly.
Proverbs 5:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Let not waters out of thy fountain be spilt by thee, But let thy waters go into thy streets.
Proverbs 7:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
At one whom she may see of the senseless ones, A young man void of understanding,
Proverbs 7:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And at another time she lies in wait in the streets, at every corner.
Proverbs 9:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
On a seat openly in the streets,
Proverbs 22:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
There is a lion in the ways, and murderers in the streets.
Song of Solomon 3:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
I will rise now, and go about in the city, In the marketplaces, and in the streets, And I will seek him whom my soul loves: I sought him, but I found him not.
Isaiah 15:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Gird yourselves with sackcloth in her streets: and lament upon her roofs, and in her streets, and in her ways; howl all of you with weeping.
Isaiah 33:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
for the name of the Lord is great to you: ye shall have a place, even rivers and wide and spacious channels: thou shalt not go this way, neither a vessel with oars go thereby.
Jeremiah 5:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Run ye about in the streets of Jerusalem, and see, and know, and seek in her broad places, if ye can find one, if there is anyone that does judgment, and seeks faithfulness; and I will pardon them, saith the Lord.
Jeremiah 9:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For death has come up through your windows, it has entered into our land, to destroy the infants without, and the young men from the streets.
Jeremiah 27:30 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Therefore shall her young men fall in the streets, and all her warriors shall be cast down, saith the Lord.
Jeremiah 30:32 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Therefore shall the young men fall in thy streets, and all thy warriors shall fall, saith the Lord.
Jeremiah 31:38 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And on all the housetops of Moab, and in his streets shall be mourning: for I have broken him, saith the Lord, as a vessel, which is useless.
Lamentations 2:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Mine eyes have failed with tears, My heart is troubled, My glory is cast down to the ground, For the destruction of the daughter of my people; While the infant and suckling swoon In the streets of the city.
Lamentations 2:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
They said to their mothers, Where is corn and wine? While they fainted like wounded men In the streets of the city, While their souls were poured out Into their mother’s bosom.
Lamentations 4:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
We have hunted for our little ones, That they should not walk in our streets. Our time has drawn nigh, Our days are fulfilled, Our time is come.
Ezekiel 7:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Their silver shall be cast forth in the streets, and their gold shall be despised: their souls shall not be satisfied, and their bellies shall not be filled: for it was the punishment of their iniquities.
Ezekiel 16:24 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
that thou didst build thyself a house of fornication, and didst make thyself a public place in every street;
Ezekiel 16:31 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thou hast built a house of harlotry in every top of a way, and hast set up thy high place in every street; and thou didst become as a harlot gathering hires.
Ezekiel 23:32 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thus saith the Lord; Drink thy sister’s cup, deep and large, and full, to cause complete drunkenness.
Ezekiel 26:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
With the hoofs of his horses they shall trample all thy streets: he shall slay thy people with the sword, and shall bring down to the ground the support of thy strength.
Ezekiel 28:23 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Blood and death shall be in thy streets; and men wounded with swords shall fall in thee and on every side of thee; and they shall know that I am the Lord.
Ezekiel 48:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But concerning the five thousand that remain in the breadth in the five and twenty thousand, they shall be a suburb to the city for dwelling, and for a space before it: and the city shall be in the midst thereof.
Amos 5:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Therefore thus saith the Lord God Almighty; In all the streets shall be lamentations; and in all the ways shall it be said, Woe, woe! the husbandman shall be called to mourning and lamentation, and to them that are skilled in complaining.
Nahum 2:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
in the ways, and the chariots shall clash together, and shall be entangled in each other in the broad ways: their appearance is as lamps of fire, and as gleaming lightnings.
Zechariah 8:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thus saith the Lord Almighty; There shall yet dwell old men and old women in the streets of Jerusalem, every one holding his staff in his hand for age.
Zechariah 8:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the broad places of the city shall be filled with boys and girls playing in the streets thereof.
Matthew 7:13 New Testament, KJV
Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:
Judith 1:14 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
and became lord of his cities, and came unto Ecbatana, and took the towers, and spoiled the streets thereof, and turned the beauty thereof into shame.
Judith 7:14 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
So they and their wives and their children shall be consumed with famine, and before the sword come against them, they shall be overthrown in the streets where they dwell.
Judith 7:22 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Therefore their young children were out of heart, and their women and young men fainted for thirst, and fell down in the streets of the city, and by the passages of the gates, and there was no longer any strength in them.
Tobit 2:4 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Then before I had tasted any meat, I started up, and took him up into a room until the going down of the sun.
1 Maccabees 1:55 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
and burned incense at the doors of their houses, and in the streets.
1 Maccabees 2:9 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Her glorious vessels are carried away into captivity, her infants are slain in the streets, her young men with the sword of the enemy.
1 Maccabees 14:9 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
The ancient men sat all in the streets, communing together of good things, and the young men put on glorious and warlike apparel.
3 Maccabees 1:18 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Virgins, who had been shut up within their chambers, came out with their mothers, scattering dust and ashes on their heads, and filling the streets with outcries.
Wisdom of Sirach 23:21 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
This man shall be punished in the streets of the city, And where he suspecteth not he shall be taken.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G4116, grouped by book.

Genesis 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Judges 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
3 Kingdoms 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
2 Chronicles 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ezra 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Nehemiah 6 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Esther 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Job 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Psalms 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Proverbs 6 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Song of Solomon 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Isaiah 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Jeremiah 5 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Lamentations 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ezekiel 7 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Amos 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Nahum 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Zechariah 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Matthew 1 usage, New Testament
Judith 3 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Tobit 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
1 Maccabees 3 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
3 Maccabees 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Sirach 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha

Strong's G4116 FAQ

What does platys (πλατύς) mean?

Platys (Strong's G4116) is a Greek word most simply glossed "wide". platus (plat-oos') adj. 1. spread out "flat" ("plot"), i.e. broad [from G4111]

How many times is platys (πλατύς) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 58 linked usages for Strong's G4116 across 24 books.

Where can I study platys (πλατύς) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G4116 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

What English words translate platys (πλατύς)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as broad. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.

Does Strong's G4116 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 48 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 9 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G4116, with linked reader references where each row is available.