ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΣ, πτολεμαις
PTOLEMAIS, ptolemais
Sounds Like: ptoh-leh-MAH-ees
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 or Akko in modern-day Israel. It was a significant port city throughout antiquity, named after the Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt. It is used in sentences to refer to the city itself, often as a destination or location.
Inflection: Singular, Nominative
Instances
Codex Sinaiticus
- 1 Maccabees — 12:48
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 13 — 12:324
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, 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
- ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΔΙ — Ptolemais
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