Quick Definition
πρασιά, ᾶς, ἡ n.f. a company formed into divisions
Strong's Definition
a garden plot, i.e. (by implication, of regular beds) a row (repeated in plural by Hebraism, to indicate an arrangement)
Derivation: perhaps from (a leek, and so an onion-patch);
KJV Usage: in ranks
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
noun, f. | -ᾶς | πράσσω
11.6 · Groups and Classes of Persons and Members of Such Groups and Classes · General
group (a figurative extension of meaning of πρασιά ‘garden plot,’ not occurring in the NT) a group of persons arranged in an orderly fashion A comparison of πρασιαὶ πρασιαί in MRK 6:40 with συμπόσια συμπόσια (see 11.5) in MRK 6:39 indicates clearly that the reference in both instances is essentially the same, but in MRK 6:39 συμπόσια συμπόσια points to the grouping of people with the intent of eating, while in MRK 6:40 πρασιαὶ πρασιαί marks the orderly arrangement of the persons. One may therefore translate MRK 6:40 as ‘the people sat down in orderly groups of a hundred and of fifty’ or ‘the people sat down in rows by groups of a hundred and groups of fifty.’
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
πρασιά, -as, ἡ, a plot of ground, a garden-bed, Hom. Od. 7,127; 24, 247; Theophr. hist. plant. 4,4, 3; Nicand., Diose., al.; Sir. xxiv. 31; ἀνέπεσον πρασιαὶ πρασιαί (a Hebraism), i.e. they reclined in ranks or divisions, so that the several ranks formed, as it were, separate plots, Mk. vi. 40; ef. Gesenvus, Lehrgeb. p. 669; [Hebr. Gram. § 106, 4; B. 30(27); W. 464 (432) also] § 37, 3; (where add fr. the O. T. συνήγαγον αὐτοὺς θημωνίας θημωvias, Ex. viii. 14).
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
πρασιά prasia 2x
a small area or bed in a garden; trop. a company of persons disposed in squares; from the Hebrew, πρασιαὶ πρασιαί, by areas, by squares, like beds in a garden, Mk. 6:40*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
** πρασιά, -ᾶς, ἡ,
[in LXX: Si 24:31*;]
a garden-bed; metaph., of ranks or orderly groups of persons: Mk 6:40.†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
πρασιά, properly ‘‘a bed of garden herbs,” or ‘‘of leeks” (if derived from πράσον) : cf. BGU II. 53077 (i/a.b.) (= Selec“ions, p. 62) μόλις yap play mpacedy ποτίζι τὸ ὕδωρ, * for there is hardly a single plot which the water irrigates.” In the colloquial πρασιαὶ mpactat of Mk 6% the reference is to regularity of arrangement rather than to variety of colouring : Hesych. πρασιαί: αἱ ἐν τοῖς κήποις τετράγωνοι λαχανιαί. For the reiteration πρασιαὶ πρασιαί (cf. also Mk 6% 38) see Proleg. p. 97 and Headlam’s note to Herodas IV. 61 θερμὰ θερμὰ πηδεῦσαι. A Rabbinic explanation of Mk 6*° will be found in Zx/. VIII. vii. p. 89 f.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
πρασιά (prasia) — group. πρᾰσι-ά, Ionic dialect πρᾰσ-ιή, ἡ, bed in a garden, garden-plot, [LXX+8th c.BC+] in companies or groups, [NT] and so properly bed of leeks.)
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