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Lexicon :: Strong's G128 - aithiops

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Αἰθίοψ
Transliteration
aithiops (Key)
Pronunciation
ahee-thee'-ops
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From aitho (to scorch) and ops (the face, from ὀπτάνομαι (G3700))
Strong’s Definitions

Αἰθίοψ Aithíops, ahee-thee'-ops; from αἴθω aíthō (to scorch) and ὤψ ṓps (the face, from G3700); an Æthiopian (as a blackamoor):—Ethiopian.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 2x

The KJV translates Strong's G128 in the following manner: Ethiopian (2x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 2x
The KJV translates Strong's G128 in the following manner: Ethiopian (2x).

  1. Ethiopian = "black"

    1. an Ethiopian

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
Αἰθίοψ Aithíops, ahee-thee'-ops; from αἴθω aíthō (to scorch) and ὤψ ṓps (the face, from G3700); an Æthiopian (as a blackamoor):—Ethiopian.
STRONGS G128:
Αἰθίοψ, -οπος, ὁ, (αἴθω, to burn, and ὤψ [ὄψ], the face; swarthy), Ethiopian (Hebrew כּוּשִׁי): Acts 8:27, here the reference is to upper Ethiopia, called Habesh or Abyssinia, a country of Africa adjoining Egypt and including the island Meroë; [see Dillmann in Schenkel i. 285ff; Alex.'s Kitto or McClintock and Strong's Cyclopaedia under the word Ethiopia. Cf. Bib. Sacr. for 1866, p. 515].
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Acts
8:27

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Strong's Number G128 matches the Greek Αἰθίοψ (aithiops),
which occurs 27 times in 26 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:9 - And he heard concerning Tharaca king of the Ethiopians, saying, Behold, he is come forth to fight with thee: and he returned, and sent messengers to Ezekias, saying,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 12:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 12:3 - with twelve hundred chariots, and sixty thousand horse: and there was no number of the multitude that came with him from Egypt; Libyans, Trogodytes, and Ethiopians.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:9 - (LXX 14:8) And Zare the Ethiopian went out against them, with a force of a million, and three hundred chariots; and came to Maresa.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:12 - (LXX 14:11) And the Lord smote the Ethiopians before Juda; and the Ethiopians fled.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:13 - (LXX 14:12) And Asa and his people pursued them to Gedor; and the Ethiopians fell, so that they could not recover themselves; for they were crushed before the Lord, and before his host; and they took many spoils.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 16:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 16:8 - Were not the Ethiopians and Libyans a great force, in courage, in horsemen, in great numbers? and did not He deliver them into thy hands, because thou trustedst in the Lord?

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 21:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 21:16 - So the Lord stirred up the Philistines against Joram, and the Arabians, and those who bordered on the Æthiopians:

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 72:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 72:9 - (LXX 71:9) The Ethiopians shall fall down before him; and his enemies shall lick the dust.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 74:14

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 74:14 - (LXX 73:14) Thou didst break to pieces the heads of the dragon; thou didst give him for meat to the Ethiopian nations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 87:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 87:4 - (LXX 86:4) I will make mention of Raab and Babylon to them that know me: behold also the Philistines, and Tyre, and the people of the Ethiopians: these were born there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 20:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 20:3 - And the Lord said, As my servant Esaias has walked naked and barefoot three years, there shall be three years for signs and wonders to the Egyptians and Ethiopians;

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 20:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 20:4 - for thus shall the king of the Assyrians lead the captivity of Egypt and the Ethiopians, young men and old, naked and barefoot, having the shame of Egypt exposed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 20:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 20:5 - And the Egyptians being defeated shall be ashamed of the Ethiopians, in whom they had trusted; for they were their glory.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:9 - And Tharaca king of the Ethiopians went forth to [fn]attack him. And when he heard it, he turned aside, and sent messengers to Ezekias, saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:14

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:14 - Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Egypt has laboured for thee; and the merchandise of the Ethiopians, and the Sabeans, men of stature, shall pass over to thee, and shall be thy servants; and they shall follow after thee bound in fetters, and shall pass over to thee, and shall do obeisance to thee, and make supplication to thee: because God is in thee; and there is no God beside thee, O Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:23 - If the Ethiopian shall change his skin, or the leopardess her spots, then shall ye be able to do good, having learnt evil.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:7 - (LXX 45:7) And Abdemelech the Ethiopian heard, (now he was in the king's household,) that they had put Jeremias into the dungeon; and the king was in the gate of Benjamin:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 39:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 39:16 - (LXX 46:16) Go and say to Abdemelech the Ethiopian, Thus said the Lord God of Israel; Behold, I will bring my words upon this city for evil, and not for good.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:9 - (LXX 26:9) Mount ye the horses, prepare the chariots; go forth, ye warriors of the Ethiopians, and Libyans armed with shields; and mount, ye Lydians, bend the bow.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:10 - Therefore, behold, I am against thee, and against all thy rivers, and I will give up the land of Egypt to desolation, and the sword, and destruction, from Magdol and Syene even to the borders of the Ethiopians.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:5 - Persians, and Ethiopians, and Libyans; all with helmets and shields.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:43

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:43 - And he shall have the mastery over the secret treasures of gold and silver, and over all the desirable possessions of Egypt, and of the Libyans and Ethiopians in their strongholds.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 9:7

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 9:7 - Are not ye to me as the sons of the Ethiopians, O children of Israel? saith the Lord. Did I not bring Israel up out of the land of Egypt, and the Philistines from Cappadocia, and the Syrians out of the deep?

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Unchecked Copy BoxHab 3:7

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 3:7 - Because of troubles I looked upon the tents of the Ethiopians: the tabernacles also of the land of Madiam shall be dismayed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZep 2:12

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 2:12 - Ye Ethiopians also are the slain of my sword.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZep 3:10

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 3:10 - From the boundaries of the rivers of Ethiopia will I receive my dispersed ones; they shall offer sacrifices to me.
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