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Strong's #4554 - Σάρδεις
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Sardis = "red ones"
- a luxurious city in Asia Minor, the capital of Lydia
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Σάρδεις, εων, αἱ,
Sardes, the capital of Lydia, A. Pers. 45 (anap.); dat. Σάρδεσι ib. 321: — Ion. Σάρδιες AP 7.709 ( Alexander ), etc. ( Σάρδῑς is only f.l. in Hdt. 5.102 ); gen. Σαρδίων, dat. Σάρδῐσι, Hdt. 1.7, 5.101, etc.; acc. Σάοδιας Call. Dian. 246, or Σάρδῑς Hdt. 1.27: — Adj. Σαρδιᾱνός, Ion. σαργαν-ηνός, ή, όν, ib. 22, 80, E. Fr. 630, Call. Iamb. 1.172 ( -ηνευς Pap.); οἱ Σαρδιανοί X. Cyr. 7.2.3: — Σαρδιᾱνικός, ή, όν, Ar. Ach. 112, Pax 1174, Pl.Com. 208; v. βάπτω 1.2 .
Σάρδεις, dative Σάρδεσιν, αἱ (from Aeschylus, Herodotus down), Sardis (or Sardes), the capital of Lydia, a luxurious city; now an obscure village, Sart, with extensive ruins: Revelation 1:11; Revelation 3:1, 4. (Cf. McClintock and Strong's Cyclopaedia,
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Σάρδεις , -εων , αἱ ,
Sardis, the chief city of Lydia: Revelation 1:11; Revelation 3:1; Revelation 3:4.
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The literal meaning ";darken"; (as in Matthew 24:29, al.) is seen in Wünsch AF p. 16.13 (iii/A.D.) ὁρκίζω σε τὸν θεὸν τὸν φωτίζοντα καὶ σκοτίζοντα τὸν κόσμον. For the metaph. usage, as in Romans 1:21, cf. Test. xii. patr. Reub. iii. 8 οὕτως ἀπόλλυται πᾶς νεώτερος, σκοτίζων τὸν νοῦν αὐτοῦ ἀπὸ τῆς ἀληθείας, and see Lightfoot Notes, p. 253.
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