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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

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Strong's Number G3318 matches the Greek Μεσοποταμία (mesopotamia),
which occurs 2 times in 2 verses in the TR Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 2:9 - فَبَعْضُنَا فَرْتِيُّونَ، وَمَادِيُّونَ، وَعِيلامِيُّونَ. وَبَعْضُنَا مِنْ سُكَّانِ مَا بَيْنَ النَّهْرَيْنِ وَالْيَهُودِيَّةِ، وَكَبَّدُوكِيَّةَ، وَبُنْتُسَ، وَأَسِيَّا،

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«أَيُّهَا الإِخْوَةُ وَالآبَاءُ، اسْمَعُوا: ظَهَرَ إِلهُ الْمَجْدِ لأَبِينَا إِبْرَاهِيمَ وَهُوَ فِي بِلادِ مَا بَيْنَ النَّهْرَيْنِ، قَبْلَ أَنْ يَرْحَلَ لِيَسْكُنَ فِي حَارَانَ،

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