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Lexicon :: Strong's G3318 - mesopotamia

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Μεσοποταμία
Transliteration
mesopotamia (Key)
Pronunciation
mes-op-ot-am-ee'-ah
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Part of Speech
proper locative noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Strong’s Definitions

Μεσοποταμία Mesopotamía, mes-op-ot-am-ee'-ah; from G3319 and G4215; Mesopotamia (as lying between the Euphrates and the Tigris; compare 0763), a region of Asia:—Mesopotamia.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 2x

The KJV translates Strong's G3318 in the following manner: Mesopotamia (2x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 2x
The KJV translates Strong's G3318 in the following manner: Mesopotamia (2x).

  1. Mesopotamia = "between two rivers"

    1. the entire country between the two rivers, the Tigris and the Euphrates

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
Μεσοποταμία Mesopotamía, mes-op-ot-am-ee'-ah; from G3319 and G4215; Mesopotamia (as lying between the Euphrates and the Tigris; compare 0763), a region of Asia:—Mesopotamia.
STRONGS G3318:
Μεσοποταμία, Μεσοποταμίας, ἡ (feminine of μεσοποτάμιος, Μεσοποταμία, μεσοποταμιον, namely, χώρα; from μέσος and ποταμός), Mesopotamia, the name, not so much political as geographical (scarcely in use before the time of Alexander the Great), of a region in Asia, lying between the rivers Euphrates and Tigris (whence it took its name; cf. Arrian. anab. Alex. 7, 7; Tar. ann. 6, 37; נַהֲרַיִם אֲרַם, Aram of the two rivers, Genesis 24:10), bounded on the north by the range of Taurus and on the south by the Persian Gulf; many Jews bad settled in it (Josephus, Antiquities 12, 3, 4): Acts 2:9; Acts 7:2. (Cf. Socin in Encycl. Brit. edition 9, under the word; Rawlinson, Herodotus, vol. i. Essay ix.)
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Genesis
24:10
Acts
2:9; 7:2

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G3318 matches the Greek Μεσοποταμία (mesopotamia),
which occurs 17 times in 17 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:10 - And the servant took ten camels of his master's camels, and he took of all the goods of his master with him, and he arose and went into Mesopotamia to the city of Nachor.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:20 - Abraam begot Isaac. And Isaac was forty years old when he took to wife Rebecca, daughter of Bathuel the Syrian, out of Syrian Mesopotamia, sister of Laban the Syrian.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:43

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:43 - Now then, my son, hear my voice, and rise and depart quickly into Mesopotamia to Laban my brother into Charran.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:2 - Rise and depart quickly into Mesopotamia, to the house of Bathuel the father of thy mother, and take to thyself thence a wife of the daughters of Laban thy mother's brother.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:5 - So Isaac sent away Jacob, and he went into Mesopotamia to Laban the son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebecca the mother of Jacob and Esau.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:6 - And Esau saw that Isaac blessed Jacob, and sent him away to Mesopotamia of Syria as he blessed him, to take to himself a wife thence, and that he charged him, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of the Chananites;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:7 - and that Jacob hearkened to his father and his mother, and went to Mesopotamia of Syria.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:18 - and he took away all his possessions and all his store, which he had gotten in Mesopotamia, and all that belonged to him, to depart to Isaac his father in the land of Chanaan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:18 - And Jacob came to Salem, a city of Secima, which is in the land of Chanaan, when he departed out of Mesopotamia of Syria, and [fn]took up a position in front of the city.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:9 - And God appeared to Jacob once more in Luza, when he came out of Mesopotamia of Syria, and God blessed him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:26

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:26 - And the sons of Zelpha, the hand-maid of Lea; Gad and Aser. These are the sons of Jacob, which were born to him in Mesopotamia of Syria.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:15 - These are the sons of Lea, which she bore to Jacob in Mesopotamia of Syria, and Dina his daughter; all the souls, sons and daughters, thirty-three.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:7 - And as for me, when I came out of Mesopotamia of Syria, Rachel, thy mother, died in the land of Chanaan, as I drew nigh to the horse-course of Chabratha of the land of Chanaan, so as to come to Ephratha; and I buried her in the road of the course; this is Bethlehem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:7 - And he took up his parable, and said, Balac king of Moab sent for me out of Mesopotamia, out of the mountains of the east, saying, Come, curse me Jacob, and Come, call for a curse for me upon Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:4 - (LXX 23:5) because they met you not with bread and water by the way, when ye went out of Egypt; and because they hired against thee Balaam the son of Beor of Mesopotamia to curse thee.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:6 - And the children of Ammon saw that the people of David were ashamed, and Anan and the children of Ammon sent a thousand talents of silver to hire for themselves chariots and horsemen out of Syria of Mesopotamia, and out of Syria Maacha, and from Sobal.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 60:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 60:1 - (LXX 59:1) For the end, for them that shall yet be changed; for an inscription by David for instruction, (59:2) when he had burned Mesopotamia of Syria, and Syria Sobal, and Joab had returned and smitten in the valley of salt twelve thousand. (59:3) O God, thou hast rejected and destroyed us; thou hast been angry, yet hast pitied us.
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