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Strong's #2857 - Κολοσσαί
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Colosse = "monstrosities"
- anciently a large and flourishing city, but in Strabo's time a small town of Phrygia Major situated on the Lycus not far from its junction with the Maeander and in the neighbourhood of Laodicea and Hierapolis
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Κολασσαί, see Κολοσσαί.
STRONGS NT 2857: Κολοσσαί Κολοσσαί (R T WH, the classical form), and Κολασσαί (Rst L Tr, apparently the later popular form; (see WH. Introductory § 423,and especially Lightfoots Commentary on Colossians, p. 16f); cf. Winers Grammar, p. 44; and on the plural Winer's Grammar, § 27, 3), Κολοσσων, αἱ, Colossae, anciently a large and flourishing city, but in Strabo's time a πόλισμα (i. e. small town (Lightfoot)) of Phrygia Major situated on the Lycus, not far from its junction with the Maeander, and in the neighborhood of Laodicea and Hierapolis (Herodotus 7, 30; Xenophon, an. 1, 2, 6; Strabo 12, 8, 13, p. 576; Pliny, h. n. 5, 41), together with which cities it was destroyed by an earthquake (about)
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Κολοσσαί
(so in cl.; -ασσαί , Rec., LTr.), -ῶν , αἰ ,
Colossæ, a city on the Lycus in Phrygia: Colossians 1:2.†
Κολασσαί , see Κολοσσαί .
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