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G773 Ἀσία (Asía)
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Quick Definition

Ἀσία, ας, ἡ n.f. roughly the western third of Asia Minor

Strong's Definition

of uncertain derivation; Asia, i.e. Asia Minor, or (usually) only its western shore

KJV Usage: Asia

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

noun-name, f. | -ας

93.415 · Names of Persons and Places · Places

Asia the Roman province of Asia, primarily the western part of present-day Turkey

ACT 2:9 · ACT 6:9 · ACT 16:6 · ACT 19:10 · ACT 19:22 · ACT 19:26 · ACT 19:27 · ACT 20:16 · ACT 20:18 · ACT 21:27 · ACT 24:19 · ACT 27:2 · ROM 16:5 · 1CO 16:19 · 2CO 1:8 · 2TI 1:15 · 1PE 1:1 · REV 1:4

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Thayer's Greek Lexicon

᾿Ασία, -as, ἡ, Asia; 1. Asia proper, ἡ ἰδίως καλουμένη Agia (Ptol. 5,2), or proconsular Asia[often so called from the 16th cent. down; but correctly speaking it was a provincia co nsularis, 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 4th cent.], embracing Mysia, Lydia, Phrycia and Caria [cf. Cic. pro Flac. ο. 27]: Acts vi. 9 [L om. Tr mrg. br.]; xvi. 6 sqq.; 1 Pet.i. 1; Rev.i.4; and, apparently, Acts xix. 26; xx. 16; 2Co. i. 8; 2 Tim.i.15,ete. Cf. Win. RW B.s. v. Asien; Stark in Schenkel i. p. 261 sq. ; [BB. DD. s. v. Asia; Conyb. and Howson, St. Paul, ch. viii. ; Wieseler, Chron. ἃ. apost. Zeit. p. 31 sqq.]- PB tN part of proconsular Asia, embracing Mysia, Lydia, and Caria, (Plin. h. n. 5, 27, (28) [al. 5, 1007) : Acts ii. 9. *Actavés, -οῦὔ, 6, a native of Asia, Asian, Asiatic: Acts xx. 4. ((Thue., al.)]

Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary

Ἀσία Asia 18x

Asia, the Roman province, Acts 19:27

Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon

Ἀσία, -ας, ἡ, Asia, the Roman province: Ac 2:9 6:9 16:6 19:1, 10, 22, 26 (M, Pr., 73), Ac 19:27 Ac 20:4, 16, 18 21:27 24:18 27:2, Ro 16:5, I Co 16:19, II Co 1:8, II Ti 1:15, I Pe 1:1, Re 1:4.†

Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon

Ἀσία (Asia) — Asia. Ἀσία [ᾰ], Ionic dialect -ιη, ἡ, Asia, [Refs 5th c.BC+]:—adjective Ἀσιᾱνός, ή, όν, Asian, Asiatic, [Refs 5th c.BC+]. adverb -νῶς, ἑστιᾶν τινά[Refs 2nd c.AD+]:—feminine Ἀσιάς, άδος, and Ἀσίς, ίδος [the latter with ᾱ], frequently in [Refs 5th c.BC+] being required by the metre in [Refs 5th c.BC+]; also (i.e. κιθάρα), the Asian harp, [Refs 5th c.BC+]:—also Ἀσιάτης, Ἀσιᾶτις, Ionic dialect Ἀσιήτης, Ἀσιῆτις, [Refs 5th c.BC+]: Ἀσίηθεν, adverb from Asia, [Refs]

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