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Κυρήνη

Kyrḗnē · G2957 · Greek · 1 occurrence

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Place

Meanings

  1. Cyrene

    A city on the coast of north Africa

    Examples

    Acts 2:10 Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya around Cyrene, and visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes,

How it’s used In 2 roles

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Semantic domains 1 entry
Cyrene93.512
Κυρήνη names the region of Cyrene in North Africa. Acts 2:10 lists among those present at Pentecost visitors from “Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya around Cyrene, and visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes,” the Κυρήνην naming this region their visitors came from.
Word family 2 words

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

ΚυρήνηKyrḗnē · G2957Κυρηναῖος Kyrēnaîos · G2956 · a Cyrenian · 6×
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon Κυρηνης, ἡ, Cyrene, a large and very flourishing city of Libya Cyrenaica or…
Κυρηνης, ἡ, Cyrene, a large and very flourishing city of Libya Cyrenaica or Pentapolitana, about 11 Roman miles from the sea. Among its inhabitants were great numbers of Jews, whom Ptolemy I. had brought thither, and invested with the rights of citizens: Acts 2:10. (BB. DD., under the word).

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Places1 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

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