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STRONGS NUMBER G3038
Transliteration: lithostrōton
Phonetic Spelling: (lith-os'-tro-tos)
Part of Speech: Adjective
Short Definition: stone pavement, mosaic
Meaning: stone pavement -- mosaic
λιθόστρωτος, λιθόστρωτον (from λίθος and the verbal adjective στρωτός from στρώννυμι), spread (paved) with stones (νυμφειον, Sophocles Antig. 1204-1205); τό λιθόστρωτον, substantively, a mosaic or tessellated pavement: so of a place near the praetorium or palace at Jerusalem, John 19:13 (see Γαββαθα); of places in the outer courts of the temple, 2 Chronicles 7:3; Josephus, b. j. 6, 1, 8 and 3, 2; of an apartment whose pavement consists of tessellated work, Epictetus diss. 4, 7, 31, cf. Esther 1:6; Suetonius, Julius Caesar 46; Pliny, h. n. 36, 60 cf. 64.
Word Summary
lithostrōton: stone pavement, mosaic
Original Word: λιθόστρωτονTransliteration: lithostrōton
Phonetic Spelling: (lith-os'-tro-tos)
Part of Speech: Adjective
Short Definition: stone pavement, mosaic
Meaning: stone pavement -- mosaic
Strong's Concordance
stone pavement. From lithos and a derivative of stronnumi; stone-strewed, i.e. A tessellated mosaic on which the Roman tribunal was placed -- Pavement.
see GREEK lithos
see GREEK stronnumi
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 3038: λιθόστρωτοςλιθόστρωτος, λιθόστρωτον (from λίθος and the verbal adjective στρωτός from στρώννυμι), spread (paved) with stones (νυμφειον, Sophocles Antig. 1204-1205); τό λιθόστρωτον, substantively, a mosaic or tessellated pavement: so of a place near the praetorium or palace at Jerusalem, John 19:13 (see Γαββαθα); of places in the outer courts of the temple, 2 Chronicles 7:3; Josephus, b. j. 6, 1, 8 and 3, 2; of an apartment whose pavement consists of tessellated work, Epictetus diss. 4, 7, 31, cf. Esther 1:6; Suetonius, Julius Caesar 46; Pliny, h. n. 36, 60 cf. 64.