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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, (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.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:10 -

The servant took ten of his master’s camels, and with all kinds of his master’s goods in hand, he went to Aram-naharaim, to Nahor’s town.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:20 -

Isaac was forty years old when he took as his wife Rebekah daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan-aram and sister of Laban the Aramean.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:43 -

“So now, my son, listen to me. Flee at once to my brother Laban in Haran,

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:2 -

“Go at once to Paddan-aram, to the house of Bethuel, your mother’s father. Marry one of the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:5 -

So Isaac sent Jacob to Paddan-aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:6 -

Esau noticed that Isaac blessed Jacob and sent him to Paddan-aram to get a wife there. When he blessed him, Isaac commanded Jacob, “Do not marry a Canaanite girl.”

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:7 -

And Jacob listened to his father and mother and went to Paddan-aram.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:18 -

He took all the livestock and possessions he had acquired in Paddan-aram, and he drove his herds to go to the land of Canaan, to his father Isaac.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:18 -

After Jacob came from Paddan-aram, he arrived safely at Shechem in the land of Canaan and camped in front of the city.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:9 -

God appeared to Jacob again after he returned from Paddan-aram, and he blessed him.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:26 -

The sons of Leah’s slave Zilpah

were Gad and Asher.

These are the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Paddan-aram.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:15 -

These were Leah’s sons born to Jacob in Paddan-aram, as well as his daughter Dinah. The total number of persons:[fn] thirty-three.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:7 -

“When I was returning from Paddan, to my sorrow Rachel died along the way, some distance from Ephrath in the land of Canaan. I buried her there along the way to Ephrath” (that is, Bethlehem).

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:7 -

Balaam proclaimed his poem:

Balak brought me from Aram;

the king of Moab, from the eastern mountains:

“Come, put a curse on Jacob for me;

come, denounce Israel! ”

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:4 -

“This is because they did not meet you with food and water on the journey after you came out of Egypt, and because Balaam son of Beor from Pethor in Aram-naharaim was hired to curse you.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:6 -

When the Ammonites realized they had made themselves repulsive to David, Hanun and the Ammonites sent thirty-eight tons[fn] of silver to hire chariots and horsemen from Aram-naharaim, Aram-maacah, and Zobah.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 60:1 -

God, you have rejected us;

you have broken us down;

you have been angry. Restore us![fn]

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