Lexical Summary Syrakousai: Syracuse, a large maritime city of Sicily Original Word: ΣυράκουσαιTransliteration: Syrakousai Phonetic Spelling: (soo-rak'-oo-sahee) Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Short Definition: Syracuse, a large maritime city of Sicily Meaning: Syracuse -- a large maritime city of Sicily Strong's Concordance Syracuse. Plural of uncertain derivation; Syracuse, the capital of Sicily -- Syracuse. Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 4946: ΣυράκουσαιΣυράκουσαι (so accented commonly (Chandler §§ 172, 175); but according to Pape, Eigennamen, under the word, Συράκουσαι in Ptolemy, 3, 4, 9; 8, 9, 4), Συρακουσων, αἱ, Syracuse, a large maritime city of Sicily, having an excellent harbor and surrounded by a wall 180 stadia in length (so Strabo 6, p. 270; "but this statement exceeds the truth, the actual circuit being about 14 English miles or 122 stadia" (Leake, p. 279); see Dict. of Geogr. under the word, p. 1067b); now Siragosa: Acts 28:12. |
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