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Lexicon :: Strong's G2166 - euphratēs

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Εὐφράτης
Transliteration
euphratēs (Key)
Pronunciation
yoo-frat'-ace
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Part of Speech
proper locative noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Of foreign origin, cf פְּרָת (H6578)
Strong’s Definitions

Εὐφράτης Euphrátēs, yoo-frat'-ace; of foreign origin (compare H6578); Euphrates, a river of Asia:—Euphrates.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 2x

The KJV translates Strong's G2166 in the following manner: Euphrates (2x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 2x
The KJV translates Strong's G2166 in the following manner: Euphrates (2x).

  1. Euphrates = "the good and abounding river"

    1. a large, famous river which rises in the mountains of Armenia Major, flows through Assyria, Syria, Mesopotamia and the city of Babylon, and empties into the Gulf of Persia

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
Εὐφράτης Euphrátēs, yoo-frat'-ace; of foreign origin (compare H6578); Euphrates, a river of Asia:—Euphrates.
STRONGS G2166:
Εὐφράτης, -ου, ὁ, Euphrates, a large and celebrated river, which rises in the mountains of Armenia Major, flows through Assyria, Syria, Mesopotamia and the city of Babylon, and empties into the Persian Gulf, (Hebrew פְּרָת [i. e. (probably) 'the great stream' (Genesis 15:181); cf. Fried. Delitzsch, Wo lag d. Par., p. 169]): Revelation 9:14; Revelation 16:12. [B. D. under the word and references there.]
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2006, 2011 by Biblesoft, Inc.
All rights reserved. Used by permission. BibleSoft.com

1. Edited by BLB [An error was made in the original document incorrectly quoting Genesis 1:18]

BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Genesis
15:18
Revelation
9:14; 16:12

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G2166 matches the Greek Εὐφράτης (euphratēs),
which occurs 20 times in 20 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 2:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:14 - And the name of the third river is the Tigris, which flows east of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 15:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:18 - On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your offspring I give[fn] this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates,

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 23:31

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:31 - And I will set your border from the Red Sea to the Sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the Euphrates,[fn] for I will give the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you shall drive them out before you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 1:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:7 - Turn and take your journey, and go to the hill country of the Amorites and to all their neighbors in the Arabah, in the hill country and in the lowland and in the Negeb and by the seacoast, the land of the Canaanites, and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 11:24

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:24 - Every place on which the sole of your foot treads shall be yours. Your territory shall be from the wilderness to[fn] the Lebanon and from the River, the river Euphrates, to the western sea.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 1:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 1:4 - From the wilderness and this Lebanon as far as the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites to the Great Sea toward the going down of the sun shall be your territory.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 8:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 8:3 - David also defeated Hadadezer the son of Rehob, king of Zobah, as he went to restore his power at the river Euphrates.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:29

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:29 - In his days Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt went up to the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates. King Josiah went to meet him, and Pharaoh Neco killed him at Megiddo, as soon as he saw him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 24:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:7 - And the king of Egypt did not come again out of his land, for the king of Babylon had taken all that belonged to the king of Egypt from the Brook of Egypt to the river Euphrates.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 5:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 5:9 - He also lived to the east as far as the entrance of the desert this side of the Euphrates, because their livestock had multiplied in the land of Gilead.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 18:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 18:3 - David also defeated Hadadezer king of Zobah-Hamath, as he went to set up his monument[fn] at the river Euphrates.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 35:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:20 - After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Neco king of Egypt went up to fight at Carchemish on the Euphrates, and Josiah went out to meet him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 13:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:4 - “Take the loincloth that you have bought, which is around your waist, and arise, go to the Euphrates and hide it there in a cleft of the rock.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 13:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:5 - So I went and hid it by the Euphrates, as the LORD commanded me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 13:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:6 - And after many days the LORD said to me, “Arise, go to the Euphrates, and take from there the loincloth that I commanded you to hide there.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 13:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:7 - Then I went to the Euphrates, and dug, and I took the loincloth from the place where I had hidden it. And behold, the loincloth was spoiled; it was good for nothing.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 46:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:2 - About Egypt. Concerning the army of Pharaoh Neco, king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates at Carchemish and which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon defeated in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah:

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 46:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:6 - “The swift cannot flee away,
nor the warrior escape;
in the north by the river Euphrates
they have stumbled and fallen.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 46:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:10 - That day is the day of the Lord GOD of hosts,
a day of vengeance,
to avenge himself on his foes.
The sword shall devour and be sated
and drink its fill of their blood.
For the Lord GOD of hosts holds a sacrifice
in the north country by the river Euphrates.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:63

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:63 - When you finish reading this book, tie a stone to it and cast it into the midst of the Euphrates,
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