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Strong's #2582 - Κανδάκη

Transliteration
Kandákē
Phonetics
kan-dak'-ay
Origin
of foreign origin
Parts of Speech
Noun Feminine
TDNT
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Definition   
Thayer's
Candace = "prince of servants"
  1. a queen of Ethiopia mentioned in Acts 8:27. (A.D.
  2. The name was not a proper name of an individual, but that of a dynasty of Ethiopian queens.
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Thayer's Expanded Definition

Κανδάκη, Κανδάκης, , Candace, a name common to the queens of a region of Ethiopia whose capital was Napata; just as the proper name Ptolemy was common to the Egyptian kings, and Henry to the Reuss princes (Strabo 17, 1, 54, p. 820; Pliny, h. n. 6, 35; Dio Cassius, 54, 5): Acts 8:27; cf. Laurent, Die Königin Kandake, in the Zeitschr. f. d. luth. Theol. for 1862, p. 632ff (reprinted in his N. T. Studien, p. 140f; cf. especially B. D. American edition, under the word).


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Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament

Κανδάκη , -ης , ,

Candace: 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.
Vocabulary of the Greek NT

An interesting inscription belonging to B.C. 13 comes to us from the ancient Pselkis on the borders of Ethiopia in which an embassy on its homeward journey πρὸς ] τὴν κυρίαν βασίλισσαν records its ";adoration."; Wilcken (Hermes xxviii. (1893) p. 154 ff.) has shown good grounds for believing that in this βασίλισσα we are to see the famous Κανδάκη of Acts 8:27. The whole inscr. is in consequence worth recording here—Ἀρποκρὰς ἥκω ἀναβαίνων μετὰ Ἐ [μάτου ] πρεσβευτοῦ καὶ Ταμίου γραμματέως [πρὸς ] τὴν κυρίαν βασίλισσαν καὶ τὸ προσ [κύνημα ] ἐπόησα ὧδε παρ [ ] τῷ κυρίῳ Ἐρμ [ῇ θεῷ μεγίστῳ ] καὶ Ἐμάτου καὶ Ἀνθούσης καὶ [Ἀλε ]ξανδρήας, ἔτους ι ̄ζ ̄ Καί [σα ](ρος) Μεχ [είρ (Cagnat I. 1359). In itself the name Κανδάκη, like Ptolemy, was a dynastic title(";quod nomen multis iam annis ad reginas transiit,"; Pliny H.N. vi. 35). See also Laurent NT Studien, p. 140 ff.

 


The Vocabulary of the Greek New Testament.
Copyright © 1914, 1929, 1930 by James Hope Moulton and George Milligan. Hodder and Stoughton, London.
Derivative Copyright © 2015 by Allan Loder.
List of Word Forms
κανά Κανδακης Κανδάκης κάνθαρος κανού κανούν κανώ Kandakes Kandakēs Kandákes Kandákēs
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