2001 Translation

SYRIAN, syrian

Sounds Like: soo-REE-ah

Translations: Syria

From the root: ΣΥΡΙΑ

Part of Speech: Proper Noun

Explanation: This word refers to the geographical region of Syria, an ancient country in the Middle East. It is used here in the accusative case, indicating it is the direct object of a verb or the object of a preposition.

Inflection: Singular, Accusative, Feminine

Strong’s number: G4948 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Aristeas

• Aristeas’ Letter to Philocrates — 1:12, 1:22

Codex Sinaiticus

• 1 Maccabees — 11:2
• Psalms — 59:2
• Isaiah — 9:11
• Matthew — 4:24
• Acts of the Apostles — 15:23, 15:41, 18:18, 21:3

Ignatius of Antioch

• Ignatius’ Letter to Polycarp — 7:2, 8:2

Josephus' Against Apion

• Book One — 14:90, 19:135, 20:143, 22:186, 22:206, 23:213, 32:292, 33:301, 5:48
• Book Two — 5:48

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 1 — 9:174
• Book 7 — 4:74, 5:104
• Book 8 — 7:203, 7:204, 10:260, 15:409
• Book 9 — 14:283
• Book 10 — 6:86, 9:181, 11:220
• Book 11 — 2:25, 2:27, 8:317
• Book 12 — 1:3, 2:28, 3:129, 6:180, 6:212
• Book 13 — 2:35, 5:144, 6:209, 6:213, 7:103, 7:116, 10:272, 12:329, 13:351, 13:356, 13:371, 16:419
• Book 14 — 2:29, 3:34, 3:40, 4:79, 5:82, 6:100, 6:101, 7:119, 7:123, 8:129, 8:137, 9:156, 9:160, 11:268, 11:271, 11:279, 12:297, 13:324, 13:330, 15:420
• Book 15 — 3:79, 4:88, 4:91, 10:354, 11:406
• Book 16 — 9:275
• Book 18 — 5:115, 6:150, 8:262
• Book 19 — 5:279, 6:316
• Book 20 — 1:1, 12:259

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book One — 2:16, 7:12, 9:2, 10:1, 10:12, 11:11, 13:4, 14:1, 23:3, 30:11
• Book Two — 18:6, 21:7
• Book Three — 1:8
• Book Four — 9:16

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Deuteronomy — 26:5
• 2 Samuel — 10:6, 10:13, 10:16
• 1 Kings — 21:26, 21:29, 22:11
• 2 Kings — 13:17, 13:19
• 2 Chronicles — 18:10
• Ezra (Alpha) — 2:20, 2:23
• 1 Maccabees — 11:2
• 2 Maccabees — 3:8
• 3 Maccabees — 3:15
• Psalms — 59:2
• Isaiah — 9:12

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Matthew — 4:24
• Acts — 15:23, 15:41, 18:18, 20:3, 21:3

From the same root

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

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.

• ἘΚΣΥΡΙΑΣ — of Syria, from Syria
• ἘΝΣΥΡΙΑ — in Syria, into Syria
• ΣΟΥΡΗΝ — Syria, Syrian
• ΣΡΙΑΝ — Syria
• ΣΥΡΑΣ — of Syria, Syria
• ΣΥΡΙΑ — Syria
• ΣΥΡΙΑΣ — (of) Syria
• ΣΥΡΙΑΣΣΟΣΣΙΟΝ — Syria
• ΣΥΡΙΩΝ — of Syria, of Syrians, of a Syrian
• ΤΗΝΣΥΡΙΑΝ — Syria, the Syria
• ΤΗΣΥΡΙΑ — Syria, of Syria

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