Lexical Summary Assos: Assos, a city on the west coast of Asia Minor Original Word: ἌσσοςTransliteration: Assos Phonetic Spelling: (as'-sos) Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Short Definition: Assos, a city on the west coast of Asia Minor Meaning: Assos -- a city on the west coast of Asia Minor Strong's Concordance Assos. Probably of foreign origin; Assus, a city of Asia minor -- Assos. Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 789: ΑσσοςΑσσος (so all editions, perhaps better Ασσος; Chandler § 317, cf. § 319; Pape, Eigennamen under the word), Ἀσσου, ἡ, Assos, a maritime city in Asia Minor, on the Aegean Sea (Gulf of Adramyttium), and nine (according to Tab. Peuting. (edited by Fortin d'Urban, Paris 1845, p. 170) 20 to 25) miles (see Hackett on Acts as below) distant (to the south) from Troas, a city of Lesser Phrygia: Acts 20:13f; (formerly read also in Acts 27:13 after the Vulg.; cf. ἆσσον. See Papers of the Archaeol. Inst. of America, Classical Series i. (1882) especially, pp. 60ff). |
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