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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 - And the king heard concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, “Look, he has come out to make war with you.” So he again sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 12:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 12:3 - with twelve hundred chariots, sixty thousand horsemen, and people without number who came with him out of Egypt—the Lubim and the Sukkiim and the Ethiopians.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 14:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:9 - Then Zerah the Ethiopian came out against them with an army of a million men and three hundred chariots, and he came to Mareshah.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 14:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:12 - So the LORD struck the Ethiopians before Asa and 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 to Gerar. So the Ethiopians were overthrown, and they could not recover, for they were broken before the LORD and His army. And they carried away very much spoil.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 16:8

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

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 21:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 21:16 - Moreover the LORD stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines and the Arabians who were near the Ethiopians.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 72:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 72:9 - Those who dwell in the wilderness will bow before Him,
And His enemies will lick the dust.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 74:14

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 74:14 - You broke the heads of Leviathan in pieces,
And gave him as food to the people inhabiting the wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 87:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 87:4 - “I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon to those who know Me;
Behold, O Philistia and Tyre, with Ethiopia:
‘This one was born there.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 20:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 20:3 - Then the LORD said, “Just as My servant Isaiah has walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and a wonder against Egypt and Ethiopia,

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 20:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 20:4 - “so shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians as prisoners and the Ethiopians as captives, young and old, naked and barefoot, with their buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 20:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 20:5 - “Then they shall be afraid and ashamed of Ethiopia their expectation and Egypt their glory.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 37:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:9 - And the king heard concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, “He has come out to make war with you.” So 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 labor of Egypt and merchandise of Cush
And of the Sabeans, men of stature,
Shall come over to you, and they shall be yours;
They shall walk behind you,
They shall come over in chains;
And they shall bow down to you.
They will make supplication to you, saying, ‘Surely God is in you,
And there is no other;
There is 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 its spots?
Then may you also do good who are accustomed to do evil.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 38:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:7 - Now Ebed-Melech the Ethiopian, one of the eunuchs, who was in the king’s house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon. When the king was sitting at 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 the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: “Behold, I will bring My words upon this city for adversity and not for good, and they shall be performed in that day before you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 46:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:9 - Come up, O horses, and rage, O chariots!
And let the mighty men come forth:
The Ethiopians and the Libyans who handle the shield,
And the Lydians who handle and bend the bow.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 29:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:10 - “Indeed, therefore, I am against you and against your rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt utterly waste and desolate, from Migdol[fn] to Syene, as far as the border of Ethiopia.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 38:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:5 - “Persia, Ethiopia,[fn] and Libya[fn] 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 have power over the treasures of gold and silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt; also the Libyans and Ethiopians shall follow at his heels.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 9:7

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 9:7 - “Are you not like the people of Ethiopia to Me,
O children of Israel?” says the LORD.
“Did I not bring up Israel from the land of Egypt,
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 trembled.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zep 2:12

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 2:12 - “You Ethiopians also,
You 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 Ethiopia
My worshipers,
The daughter of My dispersed ones,
Shall bring My offering.
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