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Brown-Driver-Briggs /Thayer Dictionary - Μίλητος

Μίλητος

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Transliteration: Mílētos

Pronunciation: mil'-ay-tos

Definition: Miletus


- Original: Μίλητος

- Transliteration: Miletos

- Phonetic: mil'-ay-tos

- Definition: Miletus = "pure white fine wool"

1. a maritime city, now nearly 10 miles (16 km), from the coast of Caria or Ionia, near the mouth of the Maeander and 35 miles (55 km) from Ephesus. It was the mother of about eighty colonies, the the birth place of Thales, Anaximander, and other famous men.

- Origin: of uncertain origin

- TDNT entry: None

- Part(s) of speech: Noun Location

- Strong's: Of uncertain origin; Miletus a city of Asia Minor: - Miletus.


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