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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 Box2Ki 19:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:9 - Now Sennacherib received a report that Tirhakah, the king of Cush,[fn] was marching out to fight against him. So he again sent messengers to Hezekiah with this word:

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 12:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 12:3 - With twelve hundred chariots and sixty thousand horsemen and the innumerable troops of Libyans, Sukkites and Cushites[fn] that came with him from Egypt,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:9 - Zerah the Cushite marched out against them with an army of thousands upon thousands and three hundred chariots, and came as far as Mareshah.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:12 - The LORD struck down the Cushites before Asa and Judah. The Cushites fled,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:13 - and Asa and his army pursued them as far as Gerar. Such a great number of Cushites fell that they could not recover; they were crushed before the LORD and his forces. The men of Judah carried off a large amount of plunder.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 16:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 16:8 - Were not the Cushites[fn] and Libyans a mighty army with great numbers of chariots and horsemen[fn]? Yet when you relied on the LORD, he delivered them into your hand.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 21:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 21:16 - The LORD aroused against Jehoram the hostility of the Philistines and of the Arabs who lived near the Cushites.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 72:9

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 74:14

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 74:14 - It was you who crushed the heads of Leviathan and gave it as food to the creatures of the desert.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 87:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 87:4 - “I will record Rahab[fn] and Babylon among those who acknowledge me— Philistia too, and Tyre, along with Cush[fn]— and will say, ‘This one was born in Zion.’ ”[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 20:3

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 20:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 20:4 - so the king of Assyria will lead away stripped and barefoot the Egyptian captives and Cushite exiles, young and old, with buttocks bared—to Egypt’s shame.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 20:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 20:5 - Those who trusted in Cush and boasted in Egypt will be dismayed and put to shame.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:9 - Now Sennacherib received a report that Tirhakah, the king of Cush,[fn] was marching out to fight against him. When he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah with this word:

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:14

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:14 - This is what the LORD says: “The products of Egypt and the merchandise of Cush,[fn] and those tall Sabeans— they will come over to you and will be yours; they will trudge behind you, coming over to you in chains. They will bow down before you and plead with you, saying, ‘Surely God is with you, and there is no other; there is no other god.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:23 - Can an Ethiopian[fn] change his skin or a leopard its spots? Neither can you do good who are accustomed to doing evil.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:7 - But Ebed-Melek, a Cushite,[fn] an official[fn] in the royal palace, heard that they had put Jeremiah into the cistern. While the king was sitting in the Benjamin Gate,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 39:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 39:16 - “Go and tell Ebed-Melek the Cushite, ‘This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: I am about to fulfill my words against this city—words concerning disaster, not prosperity. At that time they will be fulfilled before your eyes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:9 - Charge, you horses! Drive furiously, you charioteers! March on, you warriors—men of Cush[fn] and Put who carry shields, men of Lydia who draw the bow.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:10 - therefore I am against you and against your streams, and I will make the land of Egypt a ruin and a desolate waste from Migdol to Aswan, as far as the border of Cush.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:5 - Persia, Cush[fn] and Put will be with them, all with shields and helmets,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:43

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:43 - He will gain control of the treasures of gold and silver and all the riches of Egypt, with the Libyans and Cushites[fn] in submission.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 9:7

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 9:7 - “Are not you Israelites the same to me as the Cushites[fn]?”

declares the LORD.

“Did I not bring Israel up from Egypt, the Philistines from Caphtor[fn] and the Arameans from Kir?

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Unchecked Copy BoxHab 3:7

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 3:7 - I saw the tents of Cushan in distress, the dwellings of Midian in anguish.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZep 2:12

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 2:12 - “You Cushites,[fn] too, will be slain by my sword.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxZep 3:10

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 3:10 - From beyond the rivers of Cush[fn] my worshipers, my scattered people, will bring me offerings.
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