ΣΚΥΘΟΠΟΛΙΣ, σκυθοπολις
SKYTHOPOLIS, skythopolis
Sounds Like: sky-THOH-po-lees
Translations: Scythopolis
From the root: ΣΚΥΘΟΠΟΛΙΣ
Part of Speech: Proper Noun
Explanation: Scythopolis was an ancient city in the Decapolis region, located in the Jordan Valley. It was originally known as Beth Shean in Hebrew and was later renamed Scythopolis by the Greeks. The name is a compound word, meaning 'city of the Scythians', though the exact reason for this name is debated. It was a significant Hellenistic city and a member of the Decapolis, a group of ten cities in the eastern Roman Empire.
Inflection: Singular, Nominative
Strong’s number: G4658 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
Josephus' The Jewish War
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΣΚΥΘΟΠΟΛΙΣ.
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.
- ἘΝΣΚΥΘΟΠΟΛΕΙ — in Scythopolis
- ΣΚΥΘΟΠΟΛΕΙ — (to) Scythopolis
- ΣΚΥΘΟΠΟΛΕΩΣ — of Scythopolis
- ΣΚΥΘΟΠΟΛΙΝ — Scythopolis
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