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Μεσοποταμία

Mesopotamía · G3318 · Greek · 2 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. Mesopotamia

    The valley of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers

    Examples

    Acts 2:9 “Parthians, Medes, and Elamites, and residents of Mesopotamia, Judea, and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia,

    Acts 7:2 And Stephen said, “Listen to me, brothers and fathers! The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran,

How it’s used In 1 role

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In the other Testament 2 words
פַּדָּן Paddân · H6307 · Paddan-Aram, Mesopotamia
The Hebrew name of Paddan-aram, a district within the broader region the Greek term denotes, itself rendered "Mesopotamia" in the Septuagint.
אֲרַם נַהֲרַיִם ʼĂram Nahărayim · H763 · Aram Naharaim, Mesopotamia
The Hebrew name literally meaning "Aram of the two rivers," the standard Hebrew designation for Mesopotamia.
Semantic domains 1 entry
Mesopotamia93.530
The proper name of the region of Mesopotamia. Acts 2:9 lists among the crowd “residents of Mesopotamia, Judea, and Cappadocia.”
Word family 9 words

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

μέσος mésos · G3319 · among, with, in the middle · 58×μεσίτης mesítēs · G3316 · gobetween, mediator, one who reconciles · 6×μεσονύκτιον mesonýktion · G3317 · midnight · 4×μεσουράνημα mesouránēma · G3321 · high in the sky, midpoint in the sky, directly overhead · 3×μεσημβρία mesēmbría · G3314 · noon, midday, south · 2×ΜεσοποταμίαMesopotamía · G3318μεσιτεύω mesiteúō · G3315 · to bring about an agreement, to cause an agreement · 1×μεσότοιχον mesótoichon · G3320 · dividing wall · 1×μεσόω mesóō · G3322 · to be in the middle of, to have something half over · 1×
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon Μεσοποταμίας, ἡ (feminine of μεσοποτάμιος, Μεσοποταμία, μεσοποταμιον, namely, χώρα; from…
Μεσοποταμίας, ἡ (feminine of μεσοποτάμιος, Μεσοποταμία, μεσοποταμιον, namely, χώρα; from μέσος and ποταμός), Mesopotamia, the name, not so much political as geographical (scarcely in use before the time of Alexander the Great), of a region in Asia, lying between the rivers Euphrates and Tigris (whence it took its name; cf. Arrian. anab. Alex. 7, 7; Tar. ann. 6, 37; נַהֲרַיִם אֲרַם, Aram of the two rivers, Gen 24:10), bounded on the north by the range of Taurus and on the south by the Persian Gulf; many Jews bad settled in it (Josephus, Antiquities 12, 3, 4): Acts 2:9; Acts 7:2. (Cf. Socin in Encycl. Brit. edition 9, under the word; Rawlinson, Herodotus, vol. i. Essay ix.)

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Places2 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.

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