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Strong's #3974 - Πάφος
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Paphos = "boiling or hot"
- a maritime city on the west end of Cyprus, with a harbour. It was the residence of a Roman proconsul. "Old Paphos" was noted for the worship and shrine of Venus (Aphrodite) and lay some 7 miles (10 km) to the south-east of it.
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Πάφος [ ᾰ], ἡ,
Paphos, Od. 8.363, h.Ven. 59: — Adj. Πάφιος [ ᾰ], α, ον, freq. of Aphrodite, νὴ τὴν Π. Ἀφροδίτην Ar. Lys. 556: abs. ἡ Παφίη AP 5.30 (Antip. Thess.), 93 (Rufin.), etc.
Πάφος (perhaps from the root meaning, 'to cozen'; cf. Pape, Eigennamen, under the word), Πάφου, ἡ, Paphos (now Baffa], a maritime city on the island of Cyprus, with a harbor. It was the residence of the Roman proconsul. Old Paphos (now Kuklia), formerly noted for the worship and shrine of Venus (Aphrodite), lay some 7 miles or more southeast of it (Mela 2, 7; Pliny, h. n. 5, 31, 35; Tacitus, hist. 2, 2): Acts 13:6, 13. (Lewin, St. Paul, i. 120ff.)
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Πάφος , -ου , ἡ ,
Paphos, a city in Cyprus: Acts 13:6; Acts 13:13 †
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For the occurrence of the name Peter, both in Greek and Latin, among the inscrr. in the first-century catacomb of Priscilla at Rome, see Edmundson The Church in Rome, p. 52.
The name is found in such early Christian papyrus letters as P Iand 11.9 (iii/A.D.) τῷ κυρίῳ μου ἀδελφῷ Πέτρῳ, PSI III. 208.2 (iii/iv A.D.) χ ̣αῖρε ἐν κ (υρί)ῳ, ἀγαπητὲ [ἄδ ]ελφε Πέτρε.
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