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Brown-Driver-Briggs /Thayer Dictionary - Κολοσσαί

Κολοσσαί

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Transliteration: Kolossaí

Pronunciation: kol-os-sah'-ee

Definition: Colosse


- Original: Κολοσσαί

- Transliteration: Kolossai

- Phonetic: kol-os-sah'-ee

- Definition: Colosse = "monstrosities"

1. anciently a large and flourishing city, but in Strabo's time a small town of Phrygia Major situated on the Lycus not far from its junction with the Maeander and in the neighbourhood of Laodicea and Hierapolis

- Origin: "apparently feminine plural of kolossos ("colossal")"

- TDNT entry: None

- Part(s) of speech: Noun Location

- Strong's: Apparently feminine plural of κολοσσός kolossos (colossal); Colossae a place in Asia Minor: - Colosse.


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