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Publius

The governor of Melita, Acts xxviii, 7–9. When St. Publius is rendered in the installed Bible Names resource as “common.” 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  • Historical Reference: Nave’s Topical Bible — Public domain
  • Historical Reference: Hitchcock’s Bible Names Dictionary (1869)
  • Historical Reference: Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
  • Historical Reference: A Biblical and Theological Dictionary
  • Historical Reference: concordance
  • Historical Reference: STEPBible TBESG (based primarily on Abbott-Smith)
  • Historical Reference: Installed reference work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 overview

Study at a glance

Subject type
Subject
Strong’s
G4196
Greek
Πόπλιος · Poplios
Name meaning
common According to Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Strong’s and original-language information

Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon

Πόπλιος

G4196
Transliteration
Poplios
Language
Greek
Part of speech
N:N-M-P
Indexed occurrences
2

Glosses

Publius

Lexicon definition

Πόπλιος, -ου, ὁ (Latin), Publius: Act.28:7-8.† (AS)

Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon

Πόπλιος

G4196
Transliteration
Póplios
Language
Greek
Indexed occurrences
2

Glosses

Publius

Lexicon definition

apparently "popular"

Poplius (i.e. Publius), a Roman

Hebrew lexical coverage

No safely matched Hebrew Strong’s entry

H—

The installed lexicons do not contain a sufficiently exact Hebrew word-level match for this study. UNLEARN leaves this language unassigned instead of displaying an unrelated Strong’s record.

Complete dictionary entries

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Publius

common

Source: Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · View data sources

A Biblical and Theological Dictionary

PUBLIUS

the governor of Melita, Acts xxviii, 7–9. When St. Paul was shipwrecked on this island, Publius received him and his company into his house very kindly, and treated them for three days with great humanity.

Source: A Biblical and Theological Dictionary · View data sources

Concordance

Strong's Concordance

Publius

Indexed occurrences: 2

Source: Strong's Concordance · View data sources

All Scripture references2 references

Topical Bible

Nave's Topical Bible

PUBLIUS

Entry:
Nave’s Topical Bible references for PUBLIUS.

Indexed references: 1

Scripture references:

Source: Nave's Topical Bible · View data sources

Bible Names

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Publius

Meaning:
common

Source: Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · View data sources

Sources

Ancient Context2 items
Related UNLEARN Content2 items

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