Word Summary
pēganon: rue (a plant with thick, fleshy leaves)
Original Word: πήγανονTransliteration: pēganon
Phonetic Spelling: (pay'-gan-on)
Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter
Short Definition: rue (a plant with thick, fleshy leaves)
Meaning: rue (a plant with thick, fleshy leaves)
Strong's Concordance
rue.
From pegnumi; rue (from its thick or fleshy leaves) -- rue.
see GREEK pegnumi
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 4076: πήγανονπήγανον,
πηγανου,
τό (thought to be from
πήγνυμι to make solid, on account of its thick, fleshy leaves; cf.
Vanicek, p. 457),
rue:
Luke 11:42. (
Theophrastus, hist. plant. 1, 3, 4;
Dioscorid. 3, 45 (52);
Plutarch, others) (
B. D., under the word; Tristram, Nat. Hist. etc., p. 478; Carruthers in the
Bible Educator, iii. 216f.)