2001 Translation

KYRĒNĒ, kyrēnē

Sounds Like: koo-REE-nay

Translations: Cyrene

From the root: ΚΥΡΗΝΗ

Part of Speech: Proper Noun

Explanation: Cyrene was an ancient Greek city in modern-day Libya, the oldest and most important of the five Greek cities in the region. It was located on a high plateau, about ten miles from its port, Apollonia. It was a significant center for trade and culture in the ancient world.

Inflection: Singular, Nominative

Strong’s number: G2956 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 14 — 7:114
• Book 16 — 6:160, 6:169

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book Six — 2:22

Life of Flavius Josephus, The

• The Life of Flavius Josephus — 76:424

From the same root

Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΚΥΡΗΝΗ.

These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.

• ΚΥΡΗΝΑΙΚΟΣ — Cyrenian, of Cyrene
• ΚΥΡΗΝΑΙΩΝ — of Cyrenians, of Cyrene
• ΚΥΡΗΝΕΟΝ — Cyrenian, a Cyrenian, of Cyrene
• ΚΥΡΗΝΗΝ — Cyrene
• ΚΥΡΗΝΗΣ — of Cyrene
• ΚΥΡΙΝΑ — Cyrene, of Cyrene

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