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Ἀβιληνή

Abilēnḗ · G9 · Greek · 1 occurrence

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Place

Meanings

  1. Abilene

    A territory around the city of Abila, northwest of Damascus and ruled over by Lysanias

    Examples

    Luke 3:1 Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod was tetrarch of Galilee and his brother Philip was tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias was tetrarch of Abilene,

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Semantic domains 1 entry
Abilene93.389
This proper name identifies Abilene, a region of Syria, as in Luke 3:1's record of Lysanias as tetrarch of Abilene.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (WH Ἀβειλ. (see under the word εἰ)), (ῆς, ἡ (namely, χώρα, the district belonging to the…
(WH Ἀβειλ. (see under the word εἰ)), (ῆς, ἡ (namely, χώρα, the district belonging to the city Abila). Abilene, the name of a region lying between Lebanon and Hermon toward Phoenicia, 18 miles distant from Damascus and 37 (according to the Itin. Anton. 38) from Heliopolis: Lk 3:1. Cf. Λυσανίας (and B. D. under the word).

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Places1 occurrence

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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