BIBLE DICTIONARY + WORD STUDY
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GREEK · G2938
ktisma — creature
κτίσμα, -τος, τό (κτίζω), [in LXX: Wis.9:2 13:5 14:11, Sir.36:20 (17), Sir.38:34, 3Ma.5:11 * ;] 1. (cl.) a colony. 2. a created thing, creature: 1Ti.4:4, Jas.1:18, Rev.5:13 8:9.† (AS)
4 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →GREEK · G2862
kolōnia — Roman colony
κολωνία (Rec. -ώνια), -ας, ἡ (Lat. colonic), a colony: Act.16:12 (see Lft., Phi., 50 f.).† (AS)
1 tagged verse occurrence · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H4649
mup.pim — Muppim
A man of the tribe of Benjamin living at the time of Egypt and Wilderness, first mentioned at Gen.46.21; son of: Benjamin (H1144); brother of: Bela (H1106A), Becher (H1071), Ashbel (H0788), Gera (H1617), Naaman (H5283), Ehi (H0278), Rosh (H7220), Huppim (H2650H), Ard (H0714), Ahiram (H0297) and Jediael (H3043); also called Shephupham (KJV, NIV: Shupham) at Num.26.39; Shephuphan at 1Ch.8.5; § Muppim = "serpent" 1) a Benjamite and one of the 14 descendants of Rachel who belonged to the original colony of the sons of Jacob in Egypt 1a) also 'Shupham'
1 tagged verse occurrence · see every occurrence →GREEK · G20605
klērouchia — inheritance
1. the allotment of land to citizens in a foreign country , (Aristotle Philosopher) 2. collectively, = οἱ κληροῦχοι, the body of citizens who receive such allotments , (Thucydides)—;An Athenian κληρουχία differed from a colony ἀποικία); in that the κληροῦχοι were still citizens of the mother country, instead of forming an independent state. (ML)
0 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →GREEK · G6430
apoikia — resettlement
a settlement far from home, a colony settlement , (Herdotus Historicus), etc.; εἰς ἀπ. στέλλειν to send away so as to form a settlement , (Herdotus Historicus); ἀπ. ἐκπέμπειν (Thucydides) (ML)
0 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →GREEK · G6432
apoikismos — a settlement
the settlement of a colony , (Aristotle Philosopher) (ML)
0 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →GREEK · G6442
apoikizō — to exile
1. to send away from home , (Odyssey by Homer), etc.:—;Pass. to be settled in a far land, to emigrate , (Plato Philosophus) 2. to colonise a place, send a colony to it, with accusative, (Herdotus Historicus) (ML)
0 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →GREEK · G8454
oikizō — to resettle
1. with accusative rei, to found as a colony or new settlement , πόλιν (Herdotus Historicus), etc.:—; Pass., πόλις οἴκισται (Herdotus Historicus) 2. to people with new settlers, colonise , χώρην (Herdotus Historicus); νήσους (Thucydides):—;Mid. ὅπη γῆς πύργον οἰκιούμεθα in what part of the world we shall make ourselves a fenced home, (Euripides) 3. with accusative pers. to remove, transplant , (Euripides); metaphorically, τὸν μὲν ἀφ᾽ ὑψηλῶν βραχὺν ὤικισεν brought him from high to low estate, (Euripides):—;Pass. to settle in a place, (Euripides) (ML)
0 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →The city of Philippi was a Roman colony (Acts 16:12), i.e., a military settlement of Roman soldiers and citizens, planted there to keep in subjection a newly-conquered district. A colony was Rome in miniature, under Roman municipal law, but governed by military officers (praetors and lictors), not by proconsuls. It had an independent internal government, the jus Italicum; i.e., the privileges of Italian citizens.
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.
