Quick Definition
pertaining to sheep
Strong's Definition
relating to sheep, i.e. (a gate) through which they were led into Jerusalem
Derivation: from G4263 (πρόβατον);
KJV Usage: sheep (market)
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
προβατικός, προβατικῇ, προβατικον (πρόβατον), pertaining to sheep: ἡ προβατικῇ, SC. πύλη (which is added in Neh_3:1; Neh_3:32; Neh_12:39, for δΗφΙΜΰο ωΗΡςΗψ), the sheep gate, Joh_5:2 ((Winers Grammar, 592 (551); Buttmann, § 123, 8); but some (as Meyer, Weiss, Milligan and Moulton, cf. Treg. marginal reading and see Tdf.'s note at the passage) would connect προβατικός with the immediately following κολυμβήθρα (pointed as a dative); see Tdf. as above; WHs Appendix, at the passage. On the supposed locality see B. D. under the phrase, Sheep Gate (Sheep-Market)).
STRONGS NT 4262a: προβάτιονπροβάτιον, προβατιου, τό (diminutive of the following word), a little sheep: Joh_21:1-25 :(16 T Tr marginal reading WH text), 17 T Tr WH text (Hippocrates, Aristophanes, Plato.)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
προβατικός probatikos 1x
belonging or pertaining to sheep; ἡ προβατικὴ (πύλη ), the sheep gate, Joh_5:2
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
προβατικός , -ή , -όν
( <πρόβατον ),
[in LXX (Papyri πύλη ): Neh_3:1 ; Neh_3:32 ; Neh_12:39 ( H6629 ) * ;]
of sheep: ἡ Papyri ( sc . πύλη , v. supr .), the sheep-gate , Joh_5:2 .†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
προβατικός [page 537]
An interesting reference to Joh_5:2 is found in a Christian amulet, P Oxy VIII. 1151 .7 (v/A.D. ?), where the invocation runs ὁ θ (εὸ )ς τῆς προβατικῆς κολυμβήθρας , ἐξελοῦ τὴν δούλην σου Ἰωαννίαν . . . ἀπὸ παντὸς κακοῦ , O God of the sheep-pool, deliver from every evil thy servant Joannia.
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
προβατικός προβα^τικός, ή, όν [Etym: πρόβα^τον] "of sheep or goats":— ἡ προβατικὴ (sc. πύλη) "the sheep-gate", NTest.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
προβατικός, -ή, -όν
(πρόβατον) [in LXX (π. πύλη): Neh.3:1, 32 12:39 (צֹאן)* ;]
of sheep: ἡ π. (sc. πύλη, see supr.), the sheep-gate, Jhn.5:2.†
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