Word

Ἀκύλας

Akýlas · G207 · Greek · 6 occurrences

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Person

Meanings

  1. Aquila

    A friend of Paul and the husband of Priscilla

    Examples

    Acts 18:2 And he found a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus having recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had commanded all the Jews to leave Rome. He came to them,

    Acts 18:18 Now Paul, when he had remained many days longer, took leave of the brothers and sisters and sailed away to Syria, and Priscilla and Aquila were with him. Paul first had his hair cut at Cenchrea, for he was keeping a vow.

    Acts 18:26 and he began speaking boldly in the synagogue. But when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him aside and explained the way of God more accurately to him.

How it’s used In 4 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Named alongside itApposition

1 occurrences in 3 groups

What it doesIt is the subject

2 occurrences in 2 groups

What is done to itIt is the object

2 occurrences in 1 groups

What it is said to bePredicate

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
Aquila93.16
In Acts 18:2, Paul “found a Jew named Aquila (Akílan), a native of Pontus,” naming Paul's fellow tentmaker and coworker, husband of Priscilla.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (but no genitive seems to be extant, see Buttmann, 20 (18)), ὁ, Aquila, a Jew of Pontus,…
(but no genitive seems to be extant, see Buttmann, 20 (18)), ὁ, Aquila, a Jew of Pontus, a tent-maker, convert to Christ, companion and ally of Paul in propagating the Christian religion: Acts 18:2, Acts 18:18, Acts 18:26; Rom 16:3; 1 Cor 16:19; 2 Tim 4:19; (see B. D.).

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

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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