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Brown-Driver-Briggs /Thayer Dictionary - Κεγχρεαί

Κεγχρεαί

G2747

Transliteration: Kenchreaí

Pronunciation: keng-khreh-a'-hee

Definition: Cencrea


- Original: Κεγχρεαί

- Transliteration: Kegchreai

- Phonetic: keng-khreh-a'-hee

- Definition: Cenchrea = "millet"

1. the eastern harbour of Corinth (i.e. its harbour on the Saronic Gulf) and the emporium of its trade with the Asiatic shores of the Mediterranean, as Lechaeum on the Corinthian Gulf connected it with Italy and the west

- Origin: probably from kegchros (millet)

- TDNT entry: None

- Part(s) of speech: Noun Location

- Strong's: Probably from κέγχρος kegchros (millet); Cenchreae a port of Corinth: - Cenchrea.


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