2001 Translation

SYRIA, syria

Sounds Like: soo-REE-ah

Translations: Syria

From the root: ΣΥΡΙΑ

Part of Speech: Proper Noun

Explanation: This word refers to Syria, a geographical region and ancient country located in the Middle East, east of the Mediterranean Sea. It is used to denote the land or the people of Syria.

Inflection: Singular, Nominative

Strong’s number: G4948 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Codex Sinaiticus

• 1 Chronicles — 18:6
• Acts of the Apostles — 20:3

Ignatius of Antioch

• Ignatius’ Letter to the Romans — 9:1
• Ignatius’ Letter to the Smyrnaeans — 11:2
• Ignatius’ Letter to the Ephesians — 21:2
• Ignatius’ Letter to the Trallians — 13:1
• Ignatius’ Letter to the Magnesians — 14:1

Josephus' Against Apion

• Book One — 22:174, 22:195

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 10 — 6:84
• Book 11 — 1:12, 2:21, 2:22, 3:60, 4:88, 5:129, 5:174, 5:180, 7:303
• Book 12 — 3:119, 3:131, 3:133
• Book 13 — 3:65, 5:149, 9:254, 16:420
• Book 14 — 13:345
• Book 15 — 9:311
• Book 16 — 5:146, 5:148
• Book 17 — 5:89, 9:221, 13:355
• Book 18 — 2:52
• Book 19 — 9:365

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book One — 8:15, 10:6, 28:10
• Book Two — 6:12, 14:10
• Book Three — 3:1
• Book Seven — 3:7, 8:116

Life of Flavius Josephus, The

• The Life of Flavius Josephus — 65:341, 65:347

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• 2 Samuel — 8:5, 8:6, 10:11, 10:14, 10:15, 10:18, 10:19, 15:8
• 1 Kings — 16:28, 21:20, 21:21, 21:27, 21:28
• 2 Kings — 5:1, 5:2, 6:9, 7:12, 7:15, 13:17, 16:6
• 1 Chronicles — 18:6
• Ezra (Alpha) — 2:16, 2:21, 4:48, 6:7, 6:26, 8:23

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
• ΣΥΡΙΑΝ — 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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