2001 Translation

KYRĒNĒN, kyrēnēn

Sounds Like: Koo-REE-nayn

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 a significant cultural and intellectual center in the ancient world.

Inflection: Singular, Accusative, Feminine

Strong’s number: G2956 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Codex Sinaiticus

• 1 Maccabees — 15:23
• Acts of the Apostles — 2:10

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book Seven — 11:1

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• 1 Maccabees — 15:23

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Acts — 2:10

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
• ΚΥΡΗΝΗ — Cyrene
• ΚΥΡΗΝΗΣ — of Cyrene
• ΚΥΡΙΝΑ — Cyrene, of Cyrene

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