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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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Then the servant took ten camels from the camels of his master, and he went with all kinds of good things of his master’s in his hand. So he arose and went to [fn]Mesopotamia, to the city of Nahor.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:20 - and Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the [fn]Aramean of Paddan-aram, the sister of Laban the [fn]Aramean, to be his wife.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:43 - “So now, my son, listen to my voice, and arise, [fn]flee to Haran, to my brother Laban!

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:2 - “Arise, go to Paddan-aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother’s father; and from there take to yourself a wife from the daughters of Laban your mother’s brother.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:5 - Then Isaac sent Jacob away, and he went to Paddan-aram to Laban, son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau.

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And Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan-aram to take for himself a wife from there, and that when he blessed him he commanded him, saying, “You shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan,”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:7 - and that Jacob had listened to his father and his mother and had gone to Paddan-aram.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:18 - and he drove away all his livestock and all his possessions which he had accumulated, his acquired livestock which he had accumulated in Paddan-aram, in order to go to the land of Canaan to his father Isaac.

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Now Jacob came safely to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Paddan-aram, and he camped before the city.

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Then God appeared to Jacob again when he came from Paddan-aram, and He blessed him.

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and the sons of Zilpah, Leah’s servant-woman:

Gad and Asher.

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:15 - These are the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Paddan-aram, with his daughter Dinah; [fn]all his sons and his daughters numbered thirty-three.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:7 - “Now as for me, when I came from Paddan, Rachel died, [fn]to my sorrow, in the land of Canaan on the journey, when there was still some distance to go to Ephrath; and I buried her there on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:7 - Then he took up his [fn]discourse and said,

“From Aram Balak has brought me,

Moab’s king from the mountains of the East,

‘Come curse Jacob for me,

And come, denounce Israel!’

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:4 - because they did not meet you with [fn]food and water on the way when you came out of Egypt, and because they hired against you Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of [fn]Mesopotamia, to curse you.

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Then the sons of Ammon saw that they had made themselves odious to David. So Hanun and the sons of Ammon sent [fn]1,000 talents of silver to hire for themselves chariots and horsemen from Mesopotamia, from Aram-maacah, and from Zobah.

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For the choir director. According to [fn]Shushan Eduth. A [fn]Mikhtam of David. For teaching. [fn]When he struggled with Aram-naharaim and with Aram-zobah, and Joab returned, and smote twelve thousand of Edom in the Valley of Salt.

O God, You have rejected us. You have [fn]broken us;

You have been angry; Oh, restore us.

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