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Φοινίκη

Phoiníkē · G5403 · Greek · 3 occurrences

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Place

Meanings

  1. Phoenicia

    An area along the seacoast to the west and north of Palestine

    Examples

    Acts 11:19 So then those who were scattered because of the persecution that occurred in connection with Stephen made their way to Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch, speaking the word to no one except to Jews alone.

    Acts 15:3 Therefore, after being sent on their way by the church, they were passing through both Phoenicia and Samaria, describing in detail the conversion of the Gentiles, and they were bringing great joy to all the brothers and sisters.

    Acts 21:2 and having found a ship crossing over to Phoenicia, we went aboard and set sail.

How it’s used In 1 role

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2 occurrences in 2 groups

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Semantic domains 1 entry
Phoenicia93.606
Acts 11:19 recounts that those scattered by persecution “made their way to Phoenicia and Cyprus and Antioch”.
Word family 3 words

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

φοῖνιξ phoînix · G5404 · palm tree, palm branch · 2×ΦοινίκηPhoiníkē · G5403

Also from the root φοῖνιξ

Συροφοίνισσα Syrophoínissa · G4949 · a Syrophoenician woman · 1×
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon Φοινίκης, ἡ, Phoenice or Phoenicia, in the apostolic age a tract of the province of…
Φοινίκης, ἡ, Phoenice or Phoenicia, in the apostolic age a tract of the province of Syria, situated on the coast of the Mediterranean between the river Eleutherus and the promontory of Carmel, some thirty miles long and two or three broad (but see BB. DD., under the word): Acts 11:19; Acts 15:3; Acts 21:2.

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Places3 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

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