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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

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

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 Box 2Ki 19:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:9 - Now the king heard concerning Tirhakah king of Cush, “Behold, he has set out to fight against you.” So he sent messengers again to Hezekiah, saying,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 12:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 12:3 - with 1,200 chariots and 60,000 horsemen. And the people were without number who came with him from Egypt—Libyans, Sukkiim, and Ethiopians.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 14:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:9 - Zerah the Ethiopian came out against them with an army of a million men and 300 chariots, and came as far as Mareshah.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 14:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:12 - So the LORD defeated the Ethiopians before Asa and before Judah, and the Ethiopians fled.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 14:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:13 - Asa and the people who were with him pursued them as far as Gerar, and the Ethiopians fell until none remained alive, for they were broken before the LORD and his army. The men of Judah[fn] carried away very much spoil.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 16:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 16:8 - Were not the Ethiopians and the Libyans a huge army with very many chariots and horsemen? Yet because you relied on the LORD, he gave them into your hand.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 21:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 21:16 - And the LORD stirred up against Jehoram the anger[fn] of the Philistines and of the Arabians who are near the Ethiopians.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 72:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 72:9 - May desert tribes bow down before him,
and his enemies lick the dust!

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 74:14

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 74:14 - You crushed the heads of Leviathan;
you gave him as food for the creatures of the wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 87:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 87:4 - Among those who know me I mention Rahab and Babylon;
behold, Philistia and Tyre, with Cush[fn]—
“This one was born there,” they say.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 20:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 20:3 - Then the LORD said, “As my servant Isaiah has walked naked and barefoot for three years as a sign and a portent against Egypt and Cush,[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 20:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 20:4 - so shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptian captives and the Cushite exiles, both the young and the old, naked and barefoot, with buttocks uncovered, the nakedness of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 20:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 20:5 - Then they shall be dismayed and ashamed because of Cush their hope and of Egypt their boast.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 37:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:9 - Now the king heard concerning Tirhakah king of Cush,[fn] “He has set out to fight against you.” And when he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 45:14

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:14 - Thus says the LORD:
“The wealth of Egypt and the merchandise of Cush,
and the Sabeans, men of stature,
shall come over to you and be yours;
they shall follow you;
they shall come over in chains and bow down to you.
They will plead with you, saying:
‘Surely God is in you, and there is no other,
no god besides him.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 13:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:23 - Can the Ethiopian change his skin
or the leopard his spots?
Then also you can do good
who are accustomed to do evil.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 38:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:7 - When Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, a eunuch who was in the king’s house, heard that they had put Jeremiah into the cistern—the king was sitting in the Benjamin Gate—

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 39:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 39:16 - “Go, and say to Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, ‘Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will fulfill my words against this city for harm and not for good, and they shall be accomplished before you on that day.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 46:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:9 - Advance, O horses,
and rage, O chariots!
Let the warriors go out:
men of Cush and Put who handle the shield,
men of Lud, skilled in handling the bow.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 29:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:10 - therefore, behold, I am against you and against your streams, and I will make the land of Egypt an utter waste and desolation, from Migdol to Syene, as far as the border of Cush.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 38:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:5 - Persia, Cush, and Put are with them, all of them with shield and helmet;

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 11:43

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:43 - He shall become ruler of the treasures of gold and of silver, and all the precious things of Egypt, and the Libyans and the Cushites shall follow in his train.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 9:7

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 9:7 - “Are you not like the Cushites to me,
O people of Israel?” declares the LORD.
“Did I not bring up Israel from the land of Egypt,
and the Philistines from Caphtor and the Syrians from Kir?

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Unchecked Copy Box Hab 3:7

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 3:7 - I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction;
the curtains of the land of Midian did tremble.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zep 2:12

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 2:12 - You also, O Cushites,
shall be slain by my sword.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zep 3:10

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 3:10 - From beyond the rivers of Cush
my worshipers, the daughter of my dispersed ones,
shall bring my offering.
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