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Strong's #2857 - Κολοσσαί

Transliteration
Kolossaí
Phonetics
kol-os-sah'ee
Origin
apparently feminine plural of kolossos ("colossal")
Parts of Speech
Noun Location
TDNT
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Definition   
Thayer's
Colosse = "monstrosities"
  1. anciently a large and flourishing city, but in Strabo's time a small town of Phrygia Major situated on the Lycus not far from its junction with the Maeander and in the neighbourhood of Laodicea and Hierapolis
Frequency Lists
Verse Results
KJV (1)
Colossians 1
NAS (1)
Colossians 1
HCS (1)
Colossians 1
BSB (1)
Colossians 1
ESV (1)
Colossians 1
WEB (1)
Colossians 1
Thayer's Expanded Definition

Κολασσαί, see Κολοσσαί.

STRONGS NT 2857: Κολοσσαί Κολοσσαί (R T WH, the classical form), and Κολασσαί (Rst L Tr, apparently the later popular form; (see WH. Introductory § 423,and especially Lightfoots Commentary on Colossians, p. 16f); cf. Winers Grammar, p. 44; and on the plural Winer's Grammar, § 27, 3), Κολοσσων, αἱ, Colossae, anciently a large and flourishing city, but in Strabo's time a πόλισμα (i. e. small town (Lightfoot)) of Phrygia Major situated on the Lycus, not far from its junction with the Maeander, and in the neighborhood of Laodicea and Hierapolis (Herodotus 7, 30; Xenophon, an. 1, 2, 6; Strabo 12, 8, 13, p. 576; Pliny, h. n. 5, 41), together with which cities it was destroyed by an earthquake (about) A.D. 66 ((Eusebius, chron. Ol. 210); Orosius Paulus, 7, 7 (see especially Lightfoot as above, p. 38)): Colossians 1:2. (See the full description, with copious references, by Lightfoot as above, pp. 1-72.)


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Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament

Κολοσσαί

(so in cl.; -ασσαί , Rec., LTr.), -ῶν , αἰ ,

Colossæ, a city on the Lycus in Phrygia: Colossians 1:2.†

Κολασσαί , see Κολοσσαί .


Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament.
Copyright © 1922 by G. Abbott-Smith, D.D., D.C.L.. T & T Clarke, London.
List of Word Forms
Κολοσσαις Κολοσσαῖς Kolossais Kolossaîs
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