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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 Box Gen 24:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:10 - Then the servant took ten of his master’s camels and departed, for all his master’s goods were in his hand. And he arose and went to Mesopotamia, to the city of Nahor.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 25:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:20 - Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah as wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padan Aram, the sister of Laban the Syrian.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:43

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:43 - “Now therefore, my son, obey my voice: arise, flee to my brother Laban in Haran.

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 28:5

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:6 - Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Padan Aram to take himself a wife from there, and that as he blessed him he gave him a charge, 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 obeyed his father and his mother and had gone to Padan Aram.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:18 - And he carried away all his livestock and all his possessions which he had gained, his acquired livestock which he had gained in Padan Aram, to go to his father Isaac in the land of Canaan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:18 - Then Jacob came safely to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Padan Aram; and he pitched his tent before the city.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:9 - Then God appeared to Jacob again, when he came from Padan Aram, and blessed him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:26 - and the sons of Zilpah, Leah’s maidservant, were Gad and Asher. These were the sons of Jacob who were born to him in Padan Aram.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:15 - These were the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Padan Aram, with his daughter Dinah. All the persons, his sons and his daughters, were thirty-three.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:7 - “But as for me, when I came from Padan, Rachel died beside me in the land of Canaan on the way, when there was but a little 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 - And he took up his oracle and said:

“Balak the king of Moab has brought me from Aram,
From the mountains of the east.
‘Come, curse Jacob for me,
And come, denounce Israel!’

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 23:4

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

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:6 - When the people of Ammon saw that they had made themselves repulsive to David, Hanun and the people of Ammon sent a thousand talents of silver to hire for themselves chariots and horsemen from Mesopotamia,[fn] from Syrian Maacah, and from Zobah.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 60:1 - To the Chief Musician. Set to “Lily of the Testimony.”[fn] A Michtam of David. For teaching. When he fought against Mesopotamia and Syria of Zobah, and Joab returned and killed twelve thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt.

O God, You have cast us off;
You have broken us down;
You have been displeased;
Oh, restore us again!
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