◄ 4946. Surakousai ►
Strong's Lexicon Surakousai: Syracuse Original Word: Συράκουσαι Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: Surakousai Pronunciation: soo-rak-oo'-sigh Phonetic Spelling: (soo-rak'-oo-sahee) Definition: Syracuse Meaning: Syracuse. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Origin of uncertain origin Definition Syracuse, a large maritime city of Sicily NASB Translation Syracuse (1). Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 4946: Συράκουσαι Συράκουσαι (so accented commonly (Chandler §§ 172, 175); but according to Pape, Eigennamen, under the word, Συράκουσαι in Ptolemy, 3, 4, 9; 8, 9, 4), Συρακουσων, αἱ, Syracuse, a large maritime city of Sicily, having an excellent harbor and surrounded by a wall 180 stadia in length (so Strabo 6, p. 270; "but this statement exceeds the truth, the actual circuit being about 14 English miles or 122 stadia" (Leake, p. 279); see Dict. of Geogr. under the word, p. 1067b); now Siragosa: Acts 28:12. Strong's Exhaustive Concordance Syracuse. Plural of uncertain derivation; Syracuse, the capital of Sicily -- Syracuse. Forms and Transliterations Συρακουσας Συρακούσας Surakousas Syrakousas Syrakoúsas Links Interlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel Texts Englishman's Concordance Acts 28:12 N-AFP GRK: καταχθέντες εἰς Συρακούσας ἐπεμείναμεν ἡμέρας NAS: After we put in at Syracuse, we stayed KJV: at Syracuse, we tarried INT: having put in at Syracuse we remained days Strong's Greek 4946 1 Occurrence Συρακούσας — 1 Occ.