Πέτρος Pétros

Meaning

a (piece of) rock (larger than G3037 (λίθος)); as a name, Petrus, an apostle

In the King James Version: Peter, rock

Derivation: apparently a primary word;

Where it is used

• Acts 9:40 Then Peter sent them all out of the room. He knelt down and prayed, and turning toward her body, he said, “Tabitha, get up!” She opened her eyes, and seeing Peter, she sat up.
• Acts 10:5 Now send men to Joppa to call for a man named Simon who is called Peter.
• Acts 10:9 The next day at about the sixth hour, as the men were approaching the city on their journey, Peter went up on the roof to pray.
• Acts 10:13 Then a voice said to him: “Get up, Peter, kill and eat!”
• Acts 10:14 “No, Lord!” Peter answered. “I have never eaten anything impure or unclean.”
• Acts 10:17 While Peter was puzzling over the meaning of the vision, the men sent by Cornelius found Simon’s house and approached the gate.
• Acts 10:18 They called out to ask if Simon called Peter was staying there.
• Acts 10:19 As Peter continued to reflect on the vision, the Spirit said to him, “Behold, three men are looking for you.
• Acts 10:21 So Peter went down to the men and said, “Here am I, the one you are looking for. Why have you come?”
• Acts 10:23 So Peter invited them in as his guests. And the next day he got ready and went with them, accompanied by some of the brothers from Joppa.
• Acts 10:25 As Peter was about to enter, Cornelius met him and fell at his feet to worship him.
• Acts 10:26 But Peter helped him up. “Stand up,” he said, “I am only a man myself.”
• Acts 10:32 Therefore send to Joppa for Simon, who is called Peter. He is a guest in the home of Simon the tanner, by the sea.’
• Acts 10:34 Then Peter began to speak: “I now truly understand that God does not show favoritism,
• Acts 10:44 While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit fell upon all who heard his message.
• Acts 10:45 All the circumcised believers who had accompanied Peter were astounded that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out even on the Gentiles.
• Acts 10:46 For they heard them speaking in tongues and exalting God. Then Peter said,
• Acts 11:2 So when Peter went up to Jerusalem, the circumcised believers took issue with him
• Acts 11:4 But Peter began and explained to them the whole sequence of events:
• Acts 11:7 Then I heard a voice saying to me, ‘Get up, Peter, kill and eat.’
• Acts 11:13 He told us how he had seen an angel standing in his house and saying, ‘Send to Joppa for Simon who is called Peter.
• Acts 12:3 And seeing that this pleased the Jews, Herod proceeded to seize Peter during the Feast of Unleavened Bread.
• Acts 12:5 So Peter was kept in prison, but the church was fervently praying to God for him.
• Acts 12:6 On the night before Herod was to bring him to trial, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, with sentries standing guard at the entrance to the prison.
• Acts 12:7 Suddenly an angel of the Lord appeared and a light shone in the cell. He tapped Peter on the side and woke him up, saying, “Get up quickly.” And the chains fell off his wrists.
• Acts 12:11 Then Peter came to himself and said, “Now I know for sure that the Lord has sent His angel and rescued me from Herod’s grasp and from everything the Jewish people were anticipating.”
• Acts 12:14 When she recognized Peter’s voice, she was so overjoyed that she forgot to open the gate, but ran inside and announced, “Peter is standing at the gate!”
• Acts 12:16 But Peter kept on knocking, and when they opened the door and saw him, they were astounded.
• Acts 12:18 At daybreak there was no small commotion among the soldiers as to what had become of Peter.
• Acts 15:7 After much discussion, Peter got up and said to them, “Brothers, you know that in the early days God made a choice among you that the Gentiles would hear from my lips the message of the gospel and believe.
• Galatians 2:7 On the contrary, they saw that I had been entrusted to preach the gospel to the uncircumcised, just as Peter had been to the circumcised.
• Galatians 2:8 For the One who was at work in Peter’s apostleship to the circumcised was also at work in my apostleship to the Gentiles.
• 1 Peter 1:1 Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, To the elect who are exiles of the Dispersion throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, chosen
• 2 Peter 1:1 Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who through the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ have received a faith as precious as ours: