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Strong's #2363 - Θυάτειρα
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Thyatira = "odour of affliction"
- a colony of Macedonia Greeks, situated between Sardis and Pergamos on the river Lycus; its inhabitants gained their living by traffic and the art of dyeing in purple
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θῠγάτηρ
[ ᾰ], ἡ, gen. θυγᾰτέρος contr. θυγατρός; dat. θυγᾰτέρι, θυγατρί; acc. θυγᾰτέρα θύγατρα Il. 1.13; voc. θύγᾰτερ: nom. pl. θυγατέρες, and lyr. θύγατρες 9.144, Sapph. Supp. 20a. 16: gen. pl. -τέρων IG 22.832.19, Pl. R. 461c, poet. -τρῶν: dat. pl. -τράσι -τέρεσσι Il. 15.197; both sets of forms are found in poetry, θυγατρός, -τρί, -τράσι are used in Prose: —
I daughter, Il. 9.148, 290, Od. 4.4, etc.; θύγατρες ἵππων, of mules, Simon. 7; θ. ταύρων, of bees, Philo Tars. ap. Gal. 13.269: metaph., Μοισᾶν θυγατέρες, of Odes, Pi. N. 4.3; πλάστιγξ ἡ χαλκοῦ θ. Critias 1.9D.; θ. Σειληνοῦ, of the vine, Jul. Caes. 25; ψήφου συμβολικῆς θ., of a λάγυνος, AP 6.248 (Mar Arg.); of villages dependent on a city, LXX Jd. 1.27, 1 Maccabees 5:8.
II later, maidservant, slave, Phalar. 142.3. [ ῡ in in the longer forms, metri gr.] (Cf. Skt. duhitár-, Engl. daughter, etc.)
Θυάτειρα, Θυατείρων, τά (and once Θυατειρας, ἡ, Revelation 1:11 Lachmann Θυατειραν (cf. Tdf. at the passage; WHs Appendix, p. 156; Buttmann, 18 (16))), Thyatira, a city of Lydia, formerly Pelopia and Euhippia (Pliny, h. n. 5, 31), now Akhissar, a colony of Macedonian Greeks, situated between Sardis and Pergamum on the river Lycus; its inhabitants gained their living by traffic and the art of dyeing in purple: Acts 16:14; Revelation 1:11; Revelation 2:18, 24. (B. D. under the word.)
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Θυάτειρα , -ων , τά
(-ας , ἡ , Revelation 1:11 L; cf. WH, App., 156),
Thyatira, a city of Lydia: Acts 16:14, Revelation 1:11; Revelation 2:18; Revelation 2:24.†
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For the guild of purple dyers at Thyatira (Acts 16:14) see CIG 3496–8, and the inscr. on a tomb at Thessalonica which the guild of purple dyers erected to the memory of a certain Menippus from Thyatira—ἡ συνήθεια τῶν πορφυροβάφων τῆς ὀκτωκαιδεκάτης Μένιππον Ἀμ [μ ]ίου τὸν καὶ Σεβῆρον Θυατειρηνόν, μνήμης χάριν (Duchesne et Bayet Mission au Mont Athos, p. 52 , No. 83; cf. Zahn Introd. i. p, 533 f).
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