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Strong's #3033 - Λιβύη
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Libya = "afflicted or weeping"
- a large region of northern Africa, bordering Egypt. In that portion of it which had Cyrene for its capital and was thence called Libya Cyrenaica.
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Λῐβύη [ ῠ], ἡ,
Libya, Od. 4.85, 14.295, Hdt. 1.46, etc.; also for Africa generally, Id. 4.42, al.; the west bank of the Nile, PTaur. 8.9 (ii B.C.), PLond. 1.3.8 (ii B.C.): prov., ἀεὶ Λιβύη φέρει τι καινόν or κακόν, Arist. HA 606b20, Zen. 2.51: — Adv. Λῐβύηθεν, from Libya, D.P. 46, 222: — also Λῐβύηθε, Dor. Λῐβῠ-ᾱθε, Nic. Al. 368, Theoc. 1.24: — Adj. Λῐβῠκός, ή, όν, Hdt. 2.8, etc.; Λ. ὄρνεον, i.e. a strange, foreign bird, Ar. Av. 65; Λ. λόγοι a kind of fables resembling those of Aesop, Arist. Rh. 1393a30; also, western, Ptol. Tetr. 119; = δυτικός, Procl. Par.Ptol. 29.
Λιβύη, Λιβύης, ἡ, Libya, a large region of northern Africa, bordering on Egypt. In that portion of it which had Cyrene for its capital and was thence called Libya Cyrenaica (ἡ πρός Κυρήνην Λιβύη;, Josephus, Antiquities 16, 6, 1; ἡ Λιβύη ἡ κατά Κυρήνην (which see), Acts 2:10) dwelt many Jews (Josephus, Antiquities 14, 7, 2; 16, 6, 1; b. j. 7, 11;
c. Apion. 2, 4 (where cf. Müller's notes)): Acts 2:10.
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Λιβύη , -ης , ἡ ,
Libya: Acts 2:10.†
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