Word

Συρία

Syría · G4947 · Greek · 8 occurrences

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Place

Syriafirst named in Judges 10:664 verses

Meanings

Syria

A region to the north and east of Palestine and known as Aram in OT times

Examples
Matthew 4:24 And the news about Him spread throughout Syria; and they brought to Him all who were ill, those suffering with various diseases and severe pain, demon-possessed, people with epilepsy, and people who were paralyzed; and He healed them.
Luke 2:2 This was the first census taken while Quirinius was governor of Syria.
Acts 15:23 and they sent this letter with them: “The apostles and the brothers who are elders, to the brothers and sisters in Antioch, Syria, and Cilicia who are from the Gentiles: Greetings.

How it’s used In 3 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Named alongside itApposition

1 occurrences in 1 groups

ἔθνοςnation, Gentiles 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

5 occurrences in 2 groups

εἰςto 8
κατάaccording to, against, down 1

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

κλίμαregion 1

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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In the other Testament 2 words

אֲרָם ʼĂrâm · H758 · Aram, Syria: The Hebrew name of Aram, the region and people the Greek term designates as Syria.
אֲרַם נַהֲרַיִם ʼĂram Nahărayim · H763 · Aram Naharaim, Mesopotamia: The Hebrew name of a specific district of northern Mesopotamia associated with greater Aram, narrower than the broader region the Greek term denotes.

Semantic domains 1 entry

Syria93.589: Matthew records that news about Jesus “spread throughout Syria; and they brought to Him all who were ill, those suffering with various diseases and severe pain” (Matthew 4:24).

Word family 3 words

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

ΣυρίαSyría · G4947Σύρος Sýros · G4948 · a Syrian · 1×Συροφοίνισσα Syrophoínissa · G4949 · a Syrophoenician woman · 1×

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon Συρίας, ἡ, Syria; in the N. T. a region of Asia, bounded on the north by the Taurus and…

Συρίας, ἡ, Syria; in the N. T. a region of Asia, bounded on the north by the Taurus and Amanus ranges, on the east by the Euphrates and Arabia, on the south by Palestine, and on the west by Phoenicia and the Mediterranean (cf. BB. DD. under the word ; Ryssel in Herzog edition 2, under the word Syrien; cf. also Ἀντιχεια, 1 and Δαμασκός): Mt 4:24; Lk 2:2; Acts 15:23, Acts 15:41; Acts 18:18; Acts 20:3; Acts 21:3; Gal 1:21. (On the article with it cf. Winer's Grammar, § 18, 5 a.)

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Places8 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.

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