Word Summary
marmaros: a crystalline stone, marble
Original Word: μάρμαροςTransliteration: marmaros
Phonetic Spelling: (mar'-mar-os)
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Short Definition: a crystalline stone, marble
Meaning: a crystalline stone, marble
Strong's Concordance
marble.
From marmairo (to glisten); marble (as sparkling white) -- marble.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 3139: μάρμαροςμάρμαρος,
μαρμάρου,
ὁ,
ἡ (
μαρμαίρω to sparkle, glisten);
1. a stone, rock (Homer, Euripides).
2. marble ((cf. Epistle Jer. ), Theophrastus, Strabo, others): Revelation 18:12.