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Strong's #3963 - Πάτμος
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Patmos = "my killing"
- a rugged and bare island in the Aegean Sea
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Πάτμος, Πατμου, ἡ, Patmos, a small and rocky island in the Aegean Sea, reckoned as one of the Sporades (Thucydides 3, 33; Strabo 10, p. 488; Pliny, h. n. 4, 23); now called Patino or (chiefly in the middle ages (Howson)) Palmosa and having from four to five thousand Christian inhabitants (cf. Schubert, Raise in das Morgenland, Th. iii., pp. 425-443; Bleek, Vorless. üb. die Apokalypse, p. 157; Kneucker in Schenkel iv., p. 403f; (BB. DD. under the word)). In it John, the author of the Apocalypse, says the revelations were made to him of the approaching consummation of God's kingdom: Revelation 1:9. It has been held by the church, ever since the time of (Justin Martyr (dialog contra Trypho, § 81, p. 308 a. cf. Eusebius, h. e. 4, 18, 8; see Charteris, Canonicity, chapter 34:and note)and) Irenaeus adv. haer. 5, 30, that this John is the Apostle; see Ἰωάννης, 2 and 6.
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Πάτμος , -ου , ἡ ,
Patmos, an island in the Ægean Sea: Revelation 1:9.†
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";run round"; (Mark 6:55 : cf. Apoc. Petr. 5), is found in P Flor II. 120.7 (A.D. 254) περιτρέχ ̣ων τὰ [ς ] ἅλως, ";going round the threshing floors"; : cf. PSI I. 99.27 (fragment of a comedy—ii/A.D.) περιδραμών.
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