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Rhegium
Biblical Persons & Places
Rhegium
Rhegium
A location only mentioned at Act.28.13;
only referred to as Rhegium (Ῥήγιον).
Strong's Definition
Rhegium, a place in Italy
Derivation: of Latin origin;
KJV Usage: Rhegium
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Ῥήγιον, Ρ᾽ηγιου, τό, Rhegium (now Reggio), a town and promontory at the extremity of the Bruttian peninsula, opposite Messana (Messina) in Sicily; (it seems to have got its name from the Greek verb ῤήγνυμι, because at that point Sicily was believed to have been 'rent away' from Italy; so Pliny observes, hist. nat. 3, 8 (14); (Diodorus Siculus 4, 85; Strabo 6, 258; Philo de incorrupt. mund. § 26; others. See Pape, Eigennamen, under the word)): Act_28:13.
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
Ῥήγιον Rhēgion 1x
Rhegium, a city at the southwestern extremity of Italy, Act_28:13 *. See PhotoGuide.
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
Ῥήγιον , -ου , τό ,
Rhegium , a town in Sicily: Act_28:13 .†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
Ῥήγιον [page 563]
Rhegium (mod. Reggio ), a town in Italy opposite Sicily. For the derivation of the name from ῥήγνυμι see the citations in Wetstein ad Act_28:13 .
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
Ῥήγιον, -ου, τό
Rhegium, a town in Sicily: Act.28:13.†
(AS)