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Λιβύη

Libýē · G3033 · Greek · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. Libya

    A district in 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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1 occurrences in 1 groups

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

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Semantic domains 1 entry
Libya93.517
Λιβύη names Libya, a region of North Africa. Acts 2:10 lists among those present at Pentecost visitors from “Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya around Cyrene,” the Λιβύης naming this African region their visitors came from.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon Λιβύης, ἡ, Libya, a large region of northern Africa, bordering on Egypt. In that portion…
Λιβύης, ἡ, Libya, a large region of northern Africa, bordering on Egypt. In that portion of it which had Cyrene for its capital and was thence called Libya Cyrenaica (ἡ πρός Κυρήνην Λιβύη;, Josephus, Antiquities 16, 6, 1; ἡ Λιβύη ἡ κατά Κυρήνην (which see), Acts 2:10) dwelt many Jews (Josephus, Antiquities 14, 7, 2; 16, 6, 1; b. j. 7, 11;
c. Apion. 2, 4 (where cf. Müller's notes)): Acts 2:10.

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.

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