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Κολοσσαί, ῆς, ἡ n.f. Colossae
Biblical Persons & Places
Colossae
Colossae
A location first mentioned at Col.1.2;
referred to as Colossae (Κολοσσαί), or Colossae (Var, KJV= Colosse) (Κολασσαί) (KJV= Colossians) (Κολaσσαεύς).
Strong's Definition
Colossæ, a place in Asia Minor
Derivation: apparently feminine plural of kolossos ("colossal");
KJV Usage: Colosse
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament © United Bible Societies, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Κολασσαί, see Κολοσσαί.
STRONGS NT 2857: ΚολοσσαίΚολοσσαί (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)): Col_1:2. (See the full description, with copious references, by Lightfoot as above, pp. 1-72.)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
Κολοσσαί Kolossai 1x
also spelled Κολασσαεύς, Colossae, a city of Phrygia, Col. 1:2*. See PhotoGuide.
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
Κολοσσαί
(so in cl.; -ασσαί, Rec., LTr.), -ῶν, αἰ,
Colossæ, a city on the Lycus in Phrygia: Col 1:2.†
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
Κολοσσαί (Kolossai) — Colossae. Κολοσσαί (so in cl.; -ασσαί, Rec., LTr.), -ῶν, αἰ Colossæ, a city on the Lycus in Phrygia: Col.1:2.† (From Abbott-Smith. LSJ has no entry)
Κολασσαί (Kolassai) — Colossae. Κολοσσαί (so in cl.; -ασσαί, Rec., LTr.), -ῶν, αἰ Colossæ, a city on the Lycus in Phrygia: Col.1:2.† (From Abbott-Smith. LSJ has no entry)
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
Κολοσσαί
(so in cl.; -ασσαί, Rec., LTr.), -ῶν, αἰ
Colossæ, a city on the Lycus in Phrygia: Col.1:2.†
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