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Κύπριος

Kýprios · G2953 · Greek · 3 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. a Cyprian

    (Derivative of Κύπρος ‘Cyprus,’) A person who is a native of Cyprus

    Examples

    Acts 4:36 Now Joseph, a Levite of Cyprian birth, who was also called Barnabas by the apostles (which translated means Son of Encouragement),

    Acts 11:20 But there were some of them, men of Cyprus and Cyrene, who came to Antioch and began speaking to the Greeks as well, preaching the good news of the Lord Jesus.

    Acts 21:16 Some of the disciples from Caesarea also came with us, taking us to Mnason of Cyprus, a disciple of long standing with whom we were to stay.

How it’s used In 2 roles

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

the word studied the word it goes with

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

1 occurrences in 1 groups

Named alongside itApposition

3 occurrences in 3 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
A Cyprian93.509
Κύπριος names a native of Cyprus. Acts 4:36 introduces Barnabas, “a Levite of Cyprian birth, who was also called Barnabas by the apostles (which translated means Son of Encouragement),” the Κύπριος naming his Cypriot origin.
Word family 2 words

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

Κύπρος Kýpros · G2954 · Cyprus, an island in the Mediterranean · 5×ΚύπριοςKýprios · G2953
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon Κυπριου, ὁ, a Cyprian or Cypriote, i. e. a native or an inhabitant of Cyprus: Acts 4:36;…
Κυπριου, ὁ, a Cyprian or Cypriote, i. e. a native or an inhabitant of Cyprus: Acts 4:36; Acts 11:20; Acts 21:16 (2 Macc. 4:29). ((Herodotus, others.))

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Places3 occurrences

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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