ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΔΙ, πτολεμαιδι
PTOLEMAIDI, ptolemaidi
Sounds Like: ptoh-leh-MAH-ee-dee
Translations: Ptolemais
From the root: ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΣ
Part of Speech: Proper Noun
Explanation: Ptolemais was an ancient city on the coast of Phoenicia, known today as Acre in modern-day Israel. It was a significant port city throughout antiquity, named after Ptolemy I Soter, one of Alexander the Great's generals. It is mentioned in historical texts and occasionally in the New Testament as a place visited by early Christians.
Inflection: Singular, Dative, Feminine
Strong’s number: G4425 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Codex Sinaiticus
- 1 Maccabees — 10:58
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
Josephus' The Jewish War
Life of Flavius Josephus, The
- The Life of Flavius Josephus — 65:342
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- 1 Maccabees — 10:58
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΣ.
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.
- ΕἸΣΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΔΑ — into Ptolemais, to Ptolemais
- ΕΙΣΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΔΑ — into Ptolemais
- ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΑΣ — Ptolemais, (of) Ptolemais
- ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΣ — Ptolemais
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