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Old & New Testament Greek Lexical DictionaryGreek Lexicon

Strong's #128 - Αἰθίοψ

Transliteration

Aithíops

Phonetics

ahee-thee'-ops

Origin

from aitho (to scorch) and ops (the face, from (G3700))

Parts of Speech

masculine noun

TDNT

None

Definition

Thayer
Strong
Mounce

Thayer's
Ethiopian = "black"

an Ethiopian

Frequency Lists

Book
Word
Parsing

Verse Results

ASV (2)

Acts 2

BSB (2)

Acts 2

CSB (2)

Acts 2

ESV (1)

Acts 2

KJV (2)

Acts 2

LEB (0)

The Lexham English Bible
did not use
this Strong's Number

LSB (2)

Acts 2

N95 (2)

Acts 2

NAS (2)

Acts 2

NLT (2)

Acts 5

WEB (2)

Acts 2

YLT (2)

Acts 2

ASV (2)

of ethiopia 1

of the ethiopians 1

BSB (2)

an ethiopian 1

of the ethiopians 1

CSB (2)

ethiopian 1

the ethiopians 1

ESV (1)

ethiopians 1

KJV (2)

ethiopia 1

ethiopians 1

LEB (0)

The Lexham English Bible
did not use
this Strong's Number

LSB (2)

ethiopian 1

ethiopians 1

N95 (2)

ethiopian 1

ethiopians 1

NAS (2)

ethiopian 1

ethiopians 1

NLT (2)

ethiopia 2

WEB (2)

of ethiopia 1

of the ethiopians 1

YLT (2)

of ethiopia 1

of the ethiopians 1

RAH

The
did not use
this Strong's Number

SWE

N-GPM 1

N-NSM 1

ANT

N-GPM 1

N-NSM 1

BEZ

N-GPM 1

N-NSM 1

BGB

N-GPM 1

N-NSM 1

BMT

N-GPM 1

N-NSM 1

BYZ

N-GPM 1

N-NSM 1

ELZ

N-GPM 1

N-NSM 1

NA26

N-GPM 1

N-NSM 1

SBL

N-GPM 1

N-NSM 1

SCV

N-GPM 1

N-NSM 1

STV

N-GPM 1

N-NSM 1

TIS

N-GPM 1

N-NSM 1

N-GPM-LG 1

N-NSM-LG 1

TRG

N-GPM 1

N-NSM 1

The
did not use
this Strong's Number

Liddell-Scott-Jones Definitions

Αἰθίοψ, οπος, ὁ, fem. Αἰθιοπίς, ίδος, ἡ (Αἰθίοψ as fem., A. Fr. 328, 329): pl. Αἰθιοπῆες Il. 1.423, whence nom. Αἰθιοπεύς Call. Del. 208: (αἴθω, ὄψ): —

1. properly, Burnt-face, i.e. Ethiopian, negro, Hom., etc.; prov., Αἰθίοπα σμήχειν 'to wash a blackamoor white', Luc. Ind. 28.

2. a fish, Agatharch. 109.

II Adj.,

1. Ethiopian, Αἰθιοπὶς γλῶσσα Hdt. 3.19; γῆ A. Fr. 300, E. Fr. 228.4: Subst. Αἰθιοπίς, ἡ, title of Epic poem in the Homeric cycle; also name of a plant, silver sage, Salvia argentea, Dsc. 4.104: — also Αἰθιόπιος, α, ον, E. Fr. 349: Αἰθιοπικός, ή, όν, Hdt., etc.; Αἰ. κύμινον, = ἄμι, Hp. Morb. 3.17, Dsc. 3.62: — Subst. Αἰθιοπία, ἡ, Hdt., etc.

2. red-brown, AP 7.196 (Mel.), cf. Ach. Tat. 4.5.

Thayer's Expanded Definition

Αἰθίοψ, (οπος, ὁ (αἴθω, to burn, and ὤψ (ὄψ), the face; swarthy), Ethiopian (Hebrew כּוּשִׁי): Acts 8:27, here the reference is to upper Ethiopia, called Habesh or Abyssinia, a country of Africa adjoining Egypt and including the island Meroe; (see Dillmann in Schenkel i. 285ff; Alex.'s Kitto or McClintock and Strong's Cyclopaedia under the word . Cf. Bib. Sacr. for 1866, p. 515).

Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament

Αἰθίοψ , -οπος , ὁ

(<αἴθω , to burn, ὤψ , face; i.e. swarthy),

[in LXX for H3568;]

Ethiopian: Acts 8:27.†

Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament.
Copyright © 1922 by G. Abbott-Smith, D.D., D.C.L.. T & T Clarke, London.

List of Word Forms

Αιθιοπων Αἰθιόπων Αιθιοψ Αἰθίοψ αίθριον αιθρίου αιλ αιλάμ αιλαμμώθ αιλαμμών αιλαμώθ αιλαύ αιλευ αιλεύ Aithiopon Aithiopōn Aithiópon Aithiópōn Aithiops Aithíops