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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 - Then he heard them say concerning Tirhakah king of [fn]Ethiopia, “Behold, he has come 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 who came with him from Egypt were without number: the Lubim, the Sukkiim and the Ethiopians.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 14:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:9 -

Then Zerah the Ethiopian went out against them with a military force of one million men and 300 chariots, and he came to Mareshah.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 14:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:12 - So Yahweh smote 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 - And Asa and the people who were with him pursued them as far as Gerar; and so many Ethiopians fell that [fn]they could not recover, for they were shattered before Yahweh and before His [fn]army. And they 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 Lubim a vast military force with an exceedingly vast number of chariots and horsemen? Yet because you leaned on Yahweh, He gave them into your hand.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 21:16 -

Then Yahweh stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines and the Arabs who [fn]bordered the Ethiopians;

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 72:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 72:9 -

[fn]Let the desert creatures kneel 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 [fn]Leviathan;

You gave him as food for the [fn]creatures of the desert.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 87:4 -

“I shall mention [fn]Rahab and Babylon among those who know Me;

Behold, Philistia and Tyre with [fn]Ethiopia:

‘This one was born there.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 20:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 20:3 - And Yahweh said, “Even as My servant Isaiah has gone naked and barefoot three years as a sign and wonder against Egypt and [fn]Ethiopia,

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 20:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 20:4 - so the king of Assyria will lead away the captives of Egypt and the exiles of Ethiopia, young and old, naked and barefoot with buttocks uncovered, to the [fn]shame of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 20:5

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 37:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:9 - Then he heard them say concerning Tirhakah king of [fn]Ethiopia, “He has come out to fight against you.” So he heard it and sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 45:14

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:14 -

Thus says Yahweh,

“The fruit of the labor of Egypt and the profit of [fn]Ethiopia

And the Sabeans, men of stature,

Will come over to you and will be yours;

They will walk behind you; they will come over in chains

And will bow down to you;

They will make supplication to you:

‘[fn]Surely, God is [fn]with you, and there is none else,

No other God.’”

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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 you also can do good

Who are accustomed to doing evil.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 38:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:7 - But Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, [fn]a eunuch, while he was in the king’s palace, heard that they had put Jeremiah into the cistern. Now the king was sitting in the Gate of Benjamin;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 39:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 39:16 - “Go and speak to Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, saying, ‘Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, “Behold, I am about to bring My words on this city for [fn]calamity and not for [fn]prosperity; and they will take place before you on that day.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 46:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:9 -

Go up, you horses, and [fn]drive madly, you chariots,

That the mighty men may go forth:

[fn]Ethiopia and [fn]Put, who seize the shield,

And the [fn]Lydians, who seize and bend 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 canals of the Nile, and I will make the land of Egypt an utter waste and desolation, from Migdol to Syene and even to the border of [fn]Ethiopia.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 38:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:5 - Persia, [fn]Ethiopia, and Put with them, all of them with shield and helmet;

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 11:43

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:43 - “But he will rule over the hidden treasures of gold and silver and over all the desirable things of Egypt; and Libyans and Ethiopians will follow at his [fn]heels.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 9:7

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 9:7 -

“Are you not as the sons of Ethiopia to Me,

O sons of Israel?” declares Yahweh.

“Have I not brought up Israel from the land of Egypt,

And the Philistines from Caphtor and the Arameans from Kir?

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Unchecked Copy Box Hab 3:7

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 3:7 -

I saw the tents of Cushan under wickedness;

The tent curtains of the land of Midian were trembling.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zep 2:12

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 2:12 -

“You also, O Ethiopians, will 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 [fn]Ethiopia

My [fn]worshipers, [fn]My scattered ones,

Will bring My offerings.

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