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Brown-Driver-Briggs /Thayer Dictionary - Κνίδος
Κνίδος
G2834
Transliteration: Knídos
Pronunciation: knee'-dos
Definition: Cnidus
- Original: Κνίδος - Transliteration: Knidos - Phonetic: knee'-dos
- Definition: Cnidus or Gnidus = "nettled"
1. a peninsula [now Cape Crio] and a city by the same name, situated at the extreme south west of the peninsula of Asia Minor, on a promontory now called Cape Crio, which projects between the islands of Cos and Rhodes
- Origin: probably of foreign origin - TDNT entry: None - Part(s) of speech: Noun Location - Strong's: Probably of foreign origin; Cnidus a place in Asia Minor: - Cnidus.