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Strong's #773 - Ἀσία
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Asia = "orient"
- Asia proper or proconsular Asia embracing Mysia, Lydia, Phrygia, and Caria, corresponding closely to Turkey today
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Ἀσία [ᾰ],
Ion. -ιη, ἡ, Asia, Pi. O. 7.18, Hdt. 1.4, 4.45, A. Pr. 412; γῆ Ἀσία S. OC 694, etc.: — Adj. Ἀσιᾱνός, ή, όν, Asian, Asiatic, Th. 1.6, etc.; Ἀ. ῥήτορες Theon Prog. 2; Ἀ. ζῆλος Str. 14.1.41, Plu. Ant. 2. Adv. -νῶς, ἑστιᾶν τινά D.C. 46.30: — fem. Ἀσιάς, άδος, and Ἀσίς, ίδος [the latter with ᾱ ], freq. in A. and E., never in S., Ἀσιάς being required by the metre in E. Or. 1397 (lyr.), Ba. 1168 (lyr.), Cyc. 443, Ἀσίς in A. Pers. 270 (lyr.), Supp. 547 (lyr.), cf. Euph. 34: Ἀσιάς (sc. γῆ), = cross Ἀσία, E. Tr. 748, Ion 1356; also (sc. κιθάρα), the Asian harp, Ar. Th. 120, cf. E. Cyc. 443, Plu. 2.1133c: — also Ἀσιάτης, ἀσθμ-ᾶτις, Ion. ἀσθμ-ήτης, ἀσθμ-ῆτις, A. Pers. 61 (lyr.), E. Andr. 1, etc.: Ἀσιᾱτικός, ή, όν, Str. 15.2.8: Ἀσίηθεν, Adv. from Asia, CIG 6336. (Fem. of ἄσιος (q. v.).)
Ἀσία, Ἀσίας, ἡ, Asia;
1. Asia proper, ἡ ἰδίως καλουμένῃ Ἀσία (Ptolemy, 5, 2), or proconsular Asia (often so called from the 16th century down; but correctly speaking it was apvoeincia consularis, although the ruler of it was vested with 'proconsular power.' The 'Asia' of the N. T. must not be confounded with the 'Asia proconsularis' of the
2. A part of proconsular Asia, embracing Mysia, Lydia, and Caria (Pliny, h. n. 5, 27 (28) (others, 5, 100)): Acts 2:9.
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Ἀσία , -ας , ἡ ,
Asia, the Roman province: Acts 2:9; Acts 6:9; Acts 16:6; Acts 19:1; Acts 19:10; Acts 19:22; Acts 19:26 (M, Pr., 73), Acts 19:27 Acts 20:4; Acts 20:16; Acts 20:18; Acts 21:27; Acts 24:18; Acts 27:2, Romans 16:5, 1 Corinthians 16:19, 2 Corinthians 1:8, 2 Timothy 1:15, 1 Peter 1:1, Revelation 1:4.†
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