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Πέργαμος

Pérgamos · G4010 · Greek · 2 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. Pergamum

    An important city in northwest Asia Minor

    Examples

    Revelation 1:11 saying, “Write on a scroll what you see, and send it to the seven churches: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea.”

    Revelation 2:12 “And to the angel of the church in Pergamum write: The One who has the sharp two-edged sword says this:

How it’s used In 2 roles

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2 occurrences in 2 groups

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

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Semantic domains 1 entry
Pergamum93.550
Πέργαμος is the proper name of the city in Asia Minor addressed as one of the seven churches. John is told to write to the seven churches, among them “Pergamum” (Revelation 1:11).
Word family 2 words

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

πύργος pýrgos · G4444 · tower, watchtower · 4×ΠέργαμοςPérgamos · G4010
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (perhaps Περγαμμον, τό (the gender in the N. T. is indeterminate; cf. Lob. ad Phryn., p.…
(perhaps Περγαμμον, τό (the gender in the N. T. is indeterminate; cf. Lob. ad Phryn., p. 421f; Pape, Eigennamen, see under the words)), Περγαμου, ἡ, Pergamus (or Pergamum (cf. Curtius, § 413)), a city of Mysia Major in Asia Minor, the seat of the dynasties of Attalus and Eumenes, celebrated for the temple of Aesculapius, and the invention ((?) cf. Gardthausen, Griech. Palaeogr., p. 39f; Birt, Antikes Buchwesen, chapter ii.) and manufacture of parchment. The river Selinus flowed through it and the Cetius ran past it (Strabo 13, p. 623; Pliny, 5, 30 (33); 13, 11 (21); Tacitus, ann. 3, 63). It was the birthplace of the physician Galen, and had a great royal library. Modern Berghama. There was a Christian church there: Rev 1:11; Rev 2:12.

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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