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Strong's #2957 - Κυρήνη
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Cyrene = "supremacy of the bridle"
- a large and very flourishing city of Libya Cyrenaica or Pentapolitana, about 11 miles (17 km) from the sea. Among its inhabitants were a great number of Jews, whom Ptolemy I. had brought there, and invested with the right of citizens
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Κυρήνη, ἡ,
Cyrene, Hdt. 4.162, etc.: — Adj. Κυρηναῖος, α, ον, ib. 199, etc. [ ῠ in Hes. Fr. 128.2, Pi. P. 4.2, al., Call. Ap. 73, 94; ῡ Ar. Th. 98, A.R. 2.500.]
Κυρήνη, Κυρηνης, ἡ, Cyrene, a large and very flourishing city of Libya Cyrenaica or Pentapolitana, about 11 Roman miles from the sea. Among its inhabitants were great numbers of Jews, whom Ptolemy I. had brought thither, and invested with the rights of citizens: Acts 2:10. (BB. DD., under the word).
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Κυρήνη , -ης , ἡ ,
Cyrene, a city in Libya: Acts 2:10.†
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For the presence of a Jewish population in Cyrenaica see the decree set up at Berenice by the Jewish community in honour of the Roman governor, M. Tittius—CIG III. 5361 ἔδοξε τοῖς ἄρχουσι τῷ πολιτεύματι τῶν ἐν Βερενίκῃ Ἰουδαίων κτλ.
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