ἀνωτερικός
anōterikós · G510 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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inland, upland, interior
Pertaining to an inland or higher area, presumably away from the shoreline
ExamplesActs 19:1 Now it happened that while Apollos was in Corinth, Paul passed through the upper country and came to Ephesus, and found some disciples.
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
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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Contrasting words 1 word
- παράλιος parálios · G3882 · coastal region
- Greek adjective meaning coastal or maritime, the natural geographical opposite of ἀνωτερικός (inland/interior). While ἀνωτερικός denotes regions remote from the coast or in the interior uplands, παράλιος denotes regions adjacent to the sea.
In the other Testament 1 word
- פְּנִימִי pᵉnîymîy · H6442 · within, inside, inner
- Hebrew adjective denoting interior or inner regions, corresponding to the Greek ἀνωτερικός in its sense of inland/interior (as opposed to coastal). Both terms describe geographical remoteness from a reference point (coast or lower elevation).
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Inland, upland, interior1.65
- In Acts 19:1, Paul “passed through the upper (anōterikà) country and came to Ephesus,” describing his route through the interior highlands of Asia Minor.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἀνωτερικη, ἀνωτερικον (ἀνώτερος), upper: τά ἀνωτερικά μέρη, Acts 19:1 (i. e. the part of…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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
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