STRONGS G3318:
Μεσοποταμία,
Μεσοποταμίας,
ἡ (feminine of
μεσοποτάμιος,
Μεσοποταμία,
μεσοποταμιον, namely,
χώρα; from
μέσος and
ποταμός),
Mesopotamia, the name, not so much political as geographical (scarcely in use before the time of Alexander the Great), of a region in Asia, lying between the rivers Euphrates and Tigris (whence it took its name; cf.
Arrian. anab. Alex. 7, 7; Tar. ann. 6, 37;
נַהֲרַיִם אֲרַם,
Aram of the two rivers, Genesis 24:10), bounded on the north by the range of Taurus and on the south by the Persian Gulf; many Jews bad settled in it (
Josephus, Antiquities 12, 3, 4):
Acts 2:9;
Acts 7:2. (Cf. Socin in Encycl. Brit. edition 9, under the word; Rawlinson,
Herodotus, vol. i. Essay ix.)
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's
- Genesis
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24:10
- Acts
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2:9; 7:2