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Patmos

A small rocky island in the Ægean Sea, about eighteen miles in circumference; which, on account of its dreary and desolate character, was used by the Roman emperors as a place of confinement for criminals. Patmos is rendered in the installed Bible Names resource as “mortal.” This unified study connects 7 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  • Historical Reference: Nave’s Topical Bible — Public domain
  • Historical Reference: Hitchcock’s Bible Names Dictionary (1869)
  • Historical Reference: Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
  • Historical Reference: A Biblical and Theological Dictionary
  • Historical Reference: concordance
  • Historical Reference: STEPBible TBESG (based primarily on Abbott-Smith)
  • Historical Reference: Installed reference work

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Subject type
Subject
Strong’s
G3963
Greek
Πάτμος · Patmos
Name meaning
mortal According to Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Strong’s and original-language information

Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon

Πάτμος

G3963
Transliteration
Patmos
Language
Greek
Part of speech
N:N-F-L
Indexed occurrences
1

Glosses

Patmos

Lexicon definition

Πάτμος, -ου, ἡ Patmos, an island in the Ægean Sea: Rev.1:9.† (AS)

Hebrew lexical coverage

No safely matched Hebrew Strong’s entry

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Complete dictionary entries

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Patmos

mortal

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A Biblical and Theological Dictionary

PATMOS

a small rocky island in the Ægean Sea, about eighteen miles in circumference; which, on account of its dreary and desolate character, was used by the Roman emperors as a place of confinement for criminals. To this island St. John was banished by the Emperor Domitian; and here he had his revelation, recorded in the Apocalypse.

Source: A Biblical and Theological Dictionary · View data sources

Concordance

Strong's Concordance

Patmos

Indexed occurrences: 1

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All Scripture references1 references

Revelation 1

Topical Bible

Nave's Topical Bible

PATMOS

Entry:
Nave’s Topical Bible references for PATMOS.

Indexed references: 1

Scripture references:

Source: Nave's Topical Bible · View data sources

Bible Names

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Patmos

Meaning:
mortal

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