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ἀκροατήριον

akroatḗrion · G201 · Greek · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. audience hall, auditorium

    A relatively large building normally used for legal hearings, though possibly also employed for more general purposes

    Examples

    Acts 25:23 So, on the next day when Agrippa and Bernice came amid great pomp and entered the auditorium, accompanied by the commanders and the prominent men of the city, at the command of Festus, Paul was brought before them.

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1 occurrences in 1 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 1 entry
Audience hall, auditorium7.13
In Acts 25:23, Agrippa and Bernice “entered the auditorium (tō akroatēríon),” the formal hall built for hearing official proceedings, where Paul was then brought before them.
Word family 3 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

ἀκροατής akroatḗs · G202 · hearer · 4×ἀκροατήριονakroatḗrion · G201ἐπακροάομαι epakroáomai · G1874 · to listen to · 1×
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon τό (ἀκροάομαι to be a hearer), place of assemblage for hearing, auditorium; like this…
τό (ἀκροάομαι to be a hearer), place of assemblage for hearing, auditorium; like this Latin word in Roman Law, ἀκροατ. in Acts 25:23 denotes a place set apart for hearing and deciding cases, (yet cf. Meyer at the passage). (Several times in Plutarch, and other later writers.)

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Buildings1 occurrence

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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