Word

Κυρηναῖος

Kyrēnaîos · G2956 · Greek · 6 occurrences

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Place

Meanings

  1. a Cyrenian

    (Derivative of Κυρήνη ‘Cyrene,’) A person who lives in or is a native of Cyrene

    Examples

    Matthew 27:32 As they were coming out, they found a man of Cyrene named Simon, whom they compelled to carry His cross.

    Mark 15:21 And they compelled a passer-by coming from the country, Simon of Cyrene (the father of Alexander and Rufus), to carry His cross.

    Luke 23:26 And when they led Him away, they seized a man, Simon of Cyrene, as he was coming in from the country, and placed on him the cross to carry behind Jesus.

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

Named alongside itApposition

5 occurrences in 4 groups

What it doesIt is the subject

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
A Cyrenian93.511
Κυρηναίος names a native of Cyrene. Matthew 27:32 recounts that “as they were coming out, they found a man of Cyrene named Simon, whom they compelled to carry His cross,” the Κυρηναῖον naming Simon's Cyrenian origin.
Word family 2 words

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

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon Κυρηναίου, ὁ (Κυρήνη, which see), a Cyrenaean (A. V. (R. V. Acts 6:9) Cyrenian), a native…
Κυρηναίου, ὁ (Κυρήνη, which see), a Cyrenaean (A. V. (R. V. Acts 6:9) Cyrenian), a native of Cyrene: Mt 27:32; Mk 15:21; Lk 23:26; Acts 6:9; Acts 11:20; Acts 13:1. ((Herodotus, others.))

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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