chestertonrules I did share earlier (posting scripture) in accord with how I regard it, did you miss it maybe?
I was looking at this too His name is Simon Peter right? Thats Peters first name and THEN Jesus calls him Cephas
BEFORE His name is changed
Peter =
Petros means a rock or stone
Then Jesus says to
Simon (Who is
Peter)
John 1:42 Thou art
Simon 4613 the son of Jona
thou shalt be called
Cephas 2786,
which is by interpretation 2059 ,
A stone 4074.
So the interpretation is in the verse as well as in the strongs and the name
Peter/Simon holds both
rock and stone in the definition and Jesus calls him
Cephas which by interpretation (in the verse means "
a stone") niether are of the same word but nearly the same definition.
Simon/ Peter is
#4613 is not of the same as
#2786 Cephas. And though
Cephas by interpretation is
A stone its number is
#4074 Yet holds
equal value to
Peter (His name
BEFORE Jesus changes it to
Cephas) ever notice that?
A stone =
Peter = "
a rock or a stone"
His name is changed to
Cephas = "
A stone" (yet
A stone "here"
used once Yet is shown connected to "Peter" (His name before Jesus changed it)
Peter 161,
stone 1
Used 161 times as
Peter (former name) and
once as "A stone" in the context of Jesus calling Peter
Cephas
Now here He simply calls Peter by His name
Peter and
not Cephas
Mat 16:18 And I say also unto thee, That thou art
Peter 4074, and upon this
rock 4073 I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
petra #4073
1) a rock, cliff or ledge
a) a projecting rock, crag, rocky ground
b) a rock, a large stone
c) metaph. a man like a rock, by reason of his firmness and strength of soul
Strongs is showing the same word
petra #4073 here
1Cr 10:4 And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank
4095 of that spiritual
Rock 4073 that
followed them: and that
Rock 4073 was
Christ.