Lexical Summary Damaskos: Damascus, a city of Syria Original Word: ΔαμασκόςTransliteration: Damaskos Phonetic Spelling: (dam-as-kos') Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Short Definition: Damascus, a city of Syria Meaning: Damascus -- a city of Syria Strong's Concordance Damascus. Of Hebrew origin (Dammeseq); Damascus, a city of Syria -- Damascus. see HEBREW Dammeseq Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 1154: ΔαμασκόςΔαμασκός, Δαμασκοῦ, ἡ, Damascus (Hebrew דַּמֶשֶׂק), a very ancient (Genesis 14:15), celebrated, flourishing city of Syria, lying in a most lovely and fertile plain at the eastern base of Antilibanus. It had a great number of Jews among its inhabitants (Josephus, b. j. 2, 20, 2 cf. 7, 8, 7). Still one of the most opulent cities of western Asia, having about 109,000 inhabitants ("in 1859 about 150,000; of these 6,000 were Jews, and 15,000 Christians" (Porter)): Acts 9:2ff; |
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