1st Peter NLT Audio Bible Audio Only
1st Peter NLT Audio Bible Audio Only
Peter's original name was "Shimon" or "Simeon" ("Simon" in modern English). He was later given the name "Peter", New Testament Greek Πέτρος (Petros) derived from πέτρα (petra), which means rock. In the Latin translation of the Bible this became Petrus, a masculine form of the feminine petra (f), which is a loanword from Greek still meaning "rock." Another version of this name is Aramaic: (Šimʻōn Kêpâ Sëmʻān Kêpâ), after his name in Hellenised Aramaic.
The English and German "Peter", French "Pierre", the Italian "Pietro", the Spanish and Portuguese "Pedro", the Polish "Piotr" and Russian Пётр ("Pyotr") are all derived from Petrus.
The Syriac or Aramaic word for "rock" is kepa, which in Greek became Greek: Πέτρος, also meaning "rock".[13][14] He is also known as Simon Peter, Cephas (Greek: Κηφᾶς) and Kepha (Hebrew: כיפא). Both Cephas and Kepha also mean rock.[15]
Catholic theologian Rudolf Pesch argues that the Aramaic cepha means "stone, ball, clump, clew" and that "rock" is only a connotation; that in the Attic Greek petra denotes "grown rock, rocky range, cliff, grotto"; and that petros means "small stone, firestone, sling stone, moving boulder".
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