Words the Bible translates as rocky ground
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 2 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- petraπέτραrock: solid living rock, whether bedrock, a rock face, or a standing mass of stone, as distinct from a loose stone one could lift or throw
- petrōdēsπετρώδηςrocky ground: land where a shelf of solid bedrock lies just beneath a thin skin of soil
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