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Colony

The city of Philippi was a Roman colony (Acts 16:12), i. e. This unified study connects 6 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.

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Subject type: Subject
Strong’s: G2862
Greek: κολωνία · kolōnía

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Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon

κολωνία

G2862

Transliteration: kolōnía
Language: Greek
Indexed occurrences: 1

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colony

Lexicon definition

a Roman "colony" for veterans

Hebrew lexical coverage

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Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897)

Colony

The city of Philippi was a Roman colony (Acts 16:12), i.e., a military settlement of Roman soldiers and citizens, planted there to keep in subjection a newly-conquered district. A colony was Rome in miniature, under Roman municipal law, but governed by military officers (praetors and lictors), not by proconsuls. It had an independent internal government, the jus Italicum; i.e., the privileges of Italian citizens.

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