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Cyrene
Strong's Definition
Cyrene, a region of Africa
Derivation: of uncertain derivation;
KJV Usage: Cyrene
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Κυρήνη, Κυρηνης, ἡ, Cyrene, a large and very flourishing city of Libya Cyrenaica or Pentapolitana, about 11 Roman miles from the sea. Among its inhabitants were great numbers of Jews, whom Ptolemy I. had brought thither, and invested with the rights of citizens: Act_2:10. (BB. DD., under the word).
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
Κυρήνη Kyrēnē 1x
Cyrene, a city founded by a colony of Greeks, in Northern Africa, Act_2:10
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
Κυρήνη , -ης , ἡ ,
Cyrene , a city in Libya: Act_2:10 .†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
Κυρήνη [page 364]
For the presence of a Jewish population in Cyrenaica see the decree set up at Berenice by the Jewish community in honour of the Roman governor, M. Tittius CIG III. 5361 ἔδοξε τοῖς ἄρχουσι τῷ πολιτεύματι τῶν ἐν Βερενίκῃ Ἰουδαίων κτλ .
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
Κυρήνη Κυρήνη, ἡ, "Cyrene", a Greek colony in Africa, Hdt. : —the people were called Κυρηναῖοι, and the country ἡ Κυρηναία, id=Hdt.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
Κυρήνη, -ης, ἡ
Cyrene, a city in Libya: Act.2:10.†
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