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Strong's #4424 - Πτολεμαΐς

Transliteration
Ptolemaḯs
Phonetics
ptol-em-ah-is'
Origin
from Ptolemaios (Ptolemy, after whom it was named)
Parts of Speech
Noun Location
TDNT
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Thayer's
Ptolemais or Accho = "warlike"
  1. a maritime city of Phoenicia, which got its name, apparently, from Ptolemy Lathyrus, who captured it 103 BC, and rebuilt it more beautifully
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KJV (1)
Acts 1
NAS (1)
Acts 1
HCS (1)
Acts 1
BSB (1)
Acts 1
ESV (1)
Acts 1
WEB (1)
Acts 1
Liddell-Scott-Jones Definitions

Πτολεμ-ᾱΐς

(also Πτολεμ-αιίς ), ΐδος, ἡ, with or without φυλή,

name of an Att. tribe, named after Ptolemy Euergetes I, ib.22.957.28, 964.16, al., Poll. 8.110; ἐπὶ τῆς Πτολεμαιίδος . . πρυτανείας IG 22.897, al.

II name of several cities, esp. of one in Phoenicia, now Acre, Str. 2.5.39, etc.: — Πτολεμ-ᾱΐτης, ου, or Πτολεμ-αιεύς, έως, ὁ, a citizen thereof, St.Byz.

Thayer's Expanded Definition

Πτολεμαΐς, Πτολεμιδος, , Ptolemais, a maritime city of Phoenicia, which got its name, apparently, from Ptolemy Lathyrus (who captured it , and rebuilt it more beautifully (cf. Josephus, Antiquities 13, 12, 2f)); it is called in Judges 1:31 and in the Talmud עַכּו, in the Sept. Ακχω, by the Greeks Ἄκη (on the varying accent cf. Pape, Eigennam. under the word Πτολεμαΐς), and Romans Ace, and by modern Europeans (Acre or) St. Jean d' Acre (from a church erected there in the middle ages to St. John); it is now under Turkish rule and contains about 8000 inhabitants (cf. Baedeker, Palestine and Syria, English edition, p. 356): Acts 21:7. (Often mentioned in the books of the Maccabees and by Josephus under the name of Πτολεμαΐς, cf. especially b. j. 2, 10, 2f; (see Reland, Palaest., p. 534ff; Ritter, Palestine, English translation, iv., p. 361ff).)


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Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament

Πτολεμαΐς , -ΐδος , ,

Ptolemais, a maritime city of Phœnicea: Acts 21:7.†


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
Πτολεμαιδα Πτολεμαΐδα πτύελον πτύελόν πτύξιν Ptolemaida Ptolemaḯda
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