Word Summary
iōta: iota
Original Word: ἰῶταTransliteration: iōta
Phonetic Spelling: (ee-o'-tah)
Part of Speech: Indeclinable Letter (Noun)
Short Definition: iota
Meaning: iota
Strong's Concordance
jot, iota
Of Hebrew origin (the tenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet); "iota", the name of the eighth letter of the Greek alphabet, put (figuratively) for a very small part of anything -- jot.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 2503: ἰῶταἰῶτα,
τό,
iota (
A. V. jot), the Hebrew letter, yodh
י, the smallest of them all; hence equivalent to the minutest part:
Matthew 5:18. (Cf. Iota.)