Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
Κύπριος
- Transliteration
- Kuprios
- Language
- Greek
- Part of speech
- N:N--LG
- Indexed occurrences
- 3
Glosses
Cyprus, of Cyprus
Lexicon definition
Κύπριος, -α, -ον of Cyprus, Cyprian: Act.4:36 11:20 21:16.† (AS)
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Cyprus
A large island in the Mediterranean, situated between Cilicia and Syria. Its inhabitants were plunged in all manner of luxury and debauchery. Cyprus is rendered in the installed Bible Names resource as “fair; fairness.” 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- Historical Reference: Nave’s Topical Bible — Public domain
- Historical Reference: Hitchcock’s Bible Names Dictionary (1869)
- Historical Reference: Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
- Historical Reference: A Biblical and Theological Dictionary
- Historical Reference: concordance
- Historical Reference: STEPBible TBESG (based primarily on Abbott-Smith)
- Historical Reference: A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament
- Historical Reference: Installed reference work
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Study overview
Study at a glance
- Subject type
- Subject
- Strong’s
- G2953, G2954
- Greek
- Κύπριος · Kuprios
- Name meaning
- fair; fairness According to Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
Strong’s and original-language information
G2953
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
Κύπρος
- Transliteration
- Kupros
- Language
- Greek
- Part of speech
- N:N-F-L
- Indexed occurrences
- 5
Glosses
Cyprus
Lexicon definition
Κύπρος, -ου, ἡ Cyprus: Act.11:19 13:4 15:39 21:3 27:4.† (AS)
A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament
Κύπριος
- Transliteration
- Kýprios
- Language
- Greek
- Indexed occurrences
- 3
Glosses
of Cyprus
Lexicon definition
a Cypriot, an inhabitant of Κύπρος, Cyprus, Ac. 4.36; 11.20; 21.16.
Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon
Κύπρος
- Transliteration
- Kýpros
- Language
- Greek
- Indexed occurrences
- 5
Glosses
Cyprus
Lexicon definition
Cyprus, an island in the Mediterranean
Hebrew lexical coverage
No safely matched Hebrew Strong’s entry
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
Cyprus
fair; fairness
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A Biblical and Theological Dictionary
CYPRUS
a large island in the Mediterranean, situated between Cilicia and Syria. Its inhabitants were plunged in all manner of luxury and debauchery. Their principal deity was Venus. The Apostles Paul and Barnabas landed in the isle of Cyprus, A. D. 44, Acts xiii, 4. While they continued at Salamis, they preached Jesus Christ in the Jewish synagogues; from thence they visited all the cities of the island, preaching the Gospel. At Paphos, they found Bar-Jesus, a false prophet, with Sergius Paulus, the governor: Paul struck Bar-Jesus with blindness; and the proconsul embraced Christianity. Some time after, Barnabas went again into this island with John, surnamed Mark, Acts xv, 39. Barnabas is considered as the principal Apostle, and first bishop, of Cyprus; where it is said he was martyred, being stoned to death by the Jews of Salamis. CYRENE was a city of Lybia in Africa, which, as it was the principal city of that province, gave to it the name of Cyrenaica. This city was once so powerful as to contend with Carthage for preëminence. In profane writers, it is mentioned as the birthplace of Eratosthenes the mathematician, and Callimachus the poet; and in holy writ, of Simon, whom the Jews compelled to bear our Saviour’s cross, Matt. xxvii, 32; Luke xxiii, 26. At Cyrene resided many Jews, a great part of whom embraced the Christian religion; but others opposed it with much obstinacy. Among the most inveterate enemies of Christianity, Luke reckons those of this province, who had a synagogue at Jerusalem, and excited the people against St. Stephen, Acts xi, 20.
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Concordance
Strong's Concordance
Cyprus
Indexed occurrences: 12
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All Scripture references22 references
Numbers 1
1 Kings 2
Ezra 1
Job 1
Isaiah 2
Jeremiah 1
Ezekiel 1
Mark 2
Luke 2
Acts 9
Topical Bible
Nave's Topical Bible
CYPRUS
Entry:
Nave’s Topical Bible references for CYPRUS.
Indexed references: 6
Scripture references:
Source: Nave's Topical Bible · View data sources
Bible Names
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
Cyprus
Meaning:
fair; fairness
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Sources
- 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: A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament
- Historical Reference: Installed reference work
Ancient Context3 items
Josephus Antiquities Whiston
How Every Nation Was Denominated From Their First Inhabitants.
Antiquities Book 1, Chapter 6
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How Upon The Quarrel Between Antiochus Grypus And Antiochus Cyzicenus About The Kingdom Hyrcanus Tooksamaria, And Utterly Demolished It; And How Hyrcanus Joined Himself To The Sect Of The Sadducees, And Left That Of The Pharisees.
Antiquities Book 13, Chapter 10
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How Alexander When He Had Taken The Government Made An Expedition Against Ptolemais, And Then Raised The Siege Out Of Fear Of Ptolemy Lathyrus; And How Ptolemy Made War Against Him, Because He Had Sent To Cleopatra To Persuade Her To Make War Against Ptolemy, And Yet Pretended To Be In Friendship With Him, When He Beat The Jews In The Battle.
Antiquities Book 13, Chapter 12
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Topic
CYPRUS
Nave’s Topical Bible references for CYPRUS.
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Copper
Derived from the Greek kupros (the island of Cyprus), called "Cyprian brass," occurs only in the Authorized Version in Ezra 8:27. Elsewhere the Hebrew word (nehosheth) is improperly rendered "brass," and sometimes "steel" (2 Sam. 22:35; Jer. 15:12). The "bow of steel" (Job 20:24; Ps. 18:34) should have been "bow of copper" (or "brass," as in the R.V.). The vessels of "fine copper" of Ezra 8:27 were probably similar to those of "bright brass" mentioned in 1 Kings 7:45; Dan. 10:6. Tubal-cain was the first artificer in brass and iron (Gen. 4:22). Hiram was noted as a worker in brass (1 Kings 7:14). Copper abounded in Palestine (Deut. 8:9; Isa. 60:17; 1 Chr. 22:3, 14). All sorts of vessels in the tabernacle and the temple were made of it (Lev. 6:28; Num. 16:39; 2 Chr. 4:16; Ezra 8:27); also weapons of war (1 Sam. 17:5, 6, 38; 2 Sam. 21:16). Iron is mentioned only four times (Gen. 4:22; Lev. 26:19; Num. 31:22; 35:16) in the first four books of Moses, while copper (rendered "brass") is mentioned forty times. (See [126]BRASS.) We find mention of Alexander (q.v.), a "coppersmith" of Ephesus (2 Tim. 4:14).
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Cyprus
fair; fairness
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Exorcist
(Acts 19:13). "In that sceptical and therefore superstitious age professional exorcist abounded. Many of these professional exorcists were disreputable Jews, like Simon in Samaria and Elymas in Cyprus (8:9; 13:6)." Other references to exorcism as practised by the Jews are found in Matt. 12:27; Mark 9:38; Luke 9:49, 50. It would seem that it was an opinion among the Jews that miracles might be wrought by invoking the divine name. Thus also these "vagabond Jews" pretended that they could expel daemons. The power of casting out devils was conferred by Christ on his apostles (Matt. 10:8), and on the seventy (Luke 10:17-19), and was exercised by believers after his ascension (Mark 16:17; Acts 16:18); but this power was never spoken of as exorcism.
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Sergius Paulus
A "prudent man" (R.V., "man of understanding"), the deputy (R.V., "proconsul") of Cyprus (Acts 13:6-13). He became a convert to Christianity under Paul, who visited this island on his first mission to the heathen. A remarkable memorial of this proconsul was recently (1887) discovered at Rome. On a boundary stone of Claudius his name is found, among others, as having been appointed (A.D. 47) one of the curators of the banks and the channel of the river Tiber. After serving his three years as proconsul at Cyprus, he returned to Rome, where he held the office referred to. As he is not saluted in Paul's letter to the Romans, he probably died before it was written.
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