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Strong's #3194 - Μελίτη
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Melita = "honey"
- the name of an island in the Mediterranean, lying between Africa and Sicily, now called Malta
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Μελίτη, Μελιτης, ἡ, Melita, the name of an island in the Mediterranean, lying between Africa and Sicily, now called Malta; (this Sicula Melita must not be confounded with Melita Illyrica in the Adriatic, now called Meleda (see B. D. under the word
STRONGS NT 3194: Μελιτήνη [Μελιτήνη, see the preceding word.]
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Μελίτη ,
(Rec., R, txt.), Μελιτήνη
(WH, R, mg., v. WH, App., 160),
Melita, Melitene (mod. Malta) : Acts 28:1.†
Copyright © 1922 by G. Abbott-Smith, D.D., D.C.L.. T & T Clarke, London.
For this proper name in Acts 28:1. WH (cf. RV marg.) read Μελιτήνη with B*, but there can be little doubt that this reading is due to dittography of the following ἡ νῆ (σος). Preuschen (HZNT ab Ac l.c.) states that the administration of the islands subject to Sicily was in the hands of a governor who bore the title—municipi Melitensium primus omnium (CIL X. 7495), and compares IG XIV. 601 Λ (ούκιος) Κα [στρί ]κιος Κυρ (είνᾳ) Προύδηνς ἱππεὺς Ῥωμ (αίων) πρῶτος Μελιταίων (cf. Acts 28:7) καὶ πάτρων ἄρξας καὶ ἀμφιπολεύσας θεῷ Αὐγούστῳ. . .
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