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    Greta

    GREH-tuh

    Meaning

    Pearl

    German/Greek origin · Girl

    What it points to

    Greta is the pearl of great price — beauty formed from pressure, gates of heaven made from single pearls, the kingdom worth everything.

    Verses · King James Version

    “Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it.”

    Matthew 13:46

    “And the twelve gates were twelve pearls; every several gate was of one pearl.”

    Revelation 21:21

    Most used in the 1930s (US records)

    biblesundays.com · King James Version

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