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Strong's #2582 - Κανδάκη
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Candace = "prince of servants"
- a queen of Ethiopia mentioned in Acts 8:27. (A.D.
- The name was not a proper name of an individual, but that of a dynasty of Ethiopian queens.
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Κανδάκη, Κανδάκης, ἡ, 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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Κανδάκη , -ης , ἡ ,
Candace: Acts 8:27.†
Copyright © 1922 by G. Abbott-Smith, D.D., D.C.L.. T & T Clarke, London.
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 [ὰ ] 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.
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