Bible Lexicons

Πισιόία , -ας , ι ,

Pisidia, a region of Asia Minor: Acts 14:24.

† Πισίδιος , -α , -ον ,

= Πισιδικός ,

of Pisidia: Acts 13:14.†

With a personal object this word= ";destroy,"; ";ravage,"; is classical only in poetry. The NT usage (Acts 9:21, Galatians 1:13; Galatians 1:23, cf. 4 Maccabees 4:23; 4 Maccabees 11:4) is paralleled in BGU II. 588.3 (i/A.D.) πορθοῦντες ὑμᾶς : cf. OGIS 201.17 (vi/A.D.) ἐπόρθησα τὰς χώρας αὐτῶν, and for the compd. ἐκπορθέω see P Tebt I. 37.14 (B.C. 73) ἐν ̣τέταλταί μοι παραλαβὼν στρατιώτας ἐκπορθῆσαι αὐτούς, ";he has ordered me to take soldiers and ravage them.";