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Emmaus

A village about eight miles north-west of Jerusalem; on the road to which, two of the disciples were travelling in sorrow and disappointment after the resurrection, when our Lord appeared to them, and held that memorable conversation with them which is recorded by St. Emmaus is rendered in the installed Bible Names resource as “people despised or obscure.” This unified study connects 8 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.

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  • Historical Reference: Nave’s Topical Bible — Public domain
  • Historical Reference: Hitchcock’s Bible Names Dictionary (1869)
  • Historical Reference: Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
  • Historical Reference: A Biblical and Theological Dictionary
  • Historical Reference: concordance
  • Historical Reference: STEPBible TBESG (based primarily on Abbott-Smith)
  • Historical Reference: Installed reference work

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Study at a glance

Subject type
Subject
Strong’s
G1695
Greek
Ἐμμαούς · Emmaous
Name meaning
people despised or obscure According to Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Strong’s and original-language information

Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon

Ἐμμαούς

G1695
Transliteration
Emmaous
Language
Greek
Part of speech
N:N-F-L
Indexed occurrences
1

Glosses

Emmaus

Lexicon definition

Ἐμμαούς, ἡ Emmaus, a place 60 furlongs from Jerusalem: Luk.24:13.† (AS)

Hebrew lexical coverage

No safely matched Hebrew Strong’s entry

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Complete dictionary entries

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Emmaus

people despised or obscure

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A Biblical and Theological Dictionary

EMMAUS

a village about eight miles north-west of Jerusalem; on the road to which, two of the disciples were travelling in sorrow and disappointment after the resurrection, when our Lord appeared to them, and held that memorable conversation with them which is recorded by St. Luke, xxiv.

Source: A Biblical and Theological Dictionary · View data sources

Concordance

Strong's Concordance

Emmaus

Indexed occurrences: 1

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All Scripture references3 references

Topical Bible

Nave's Topical Bible

EMMAUS

Entry:
Nave’s Topical Bible references for EMMAUS.

Indexed references: 1

Scripture references:

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Bible Names

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Emmaus

Meaning:
people despised or obscure

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