(
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.