McClintock Biblical Encyclopedia: Cerhas

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McClintock Biblical Encyclopedia: Cerhas


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( Êçöᾶò ; in later Hebrews or Syriac ëֵּéôָà ), a surname which Christ bestowed upon Simon (Joh_1:42), and which the Greeks rendered by ÐÝôñïò , and the Latins by Petrus, both words meaning "a rock," which is the signification of the original. SEE PETER.