GREEK · G3033
Λιβύη
Libuē — Libya
Libya, the north part of Africa west of Egypt, (Odyssey by Homer); in later writers also for the whole Continent (ML)
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Libya
Original Hebrew / Aramaic / Greek connected to this term
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HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H3552
כּוּב
kuv — Libya
probably located in northern Africa; maybe same as 'Lybia' or 'Lub' Another spelling of lu.vi (לוּב "Libyan" H3864)
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לוּב
lu.vi — Libyan
§ Libyans = "empty-hearted (Da 11:43) or afflicted (Jer 46:9) a people of northern Africa west of Egypt
4 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H6316
פּוּט
put — Put
A man living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at Gen.10.6; son of: Ham (H2526); brother of: Canaan (H3667), Cush (H3568) and Egypt (H4714) § Phut or Put = "a bow" a nation and people of northern Africa; probably Libyans
4 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →GREEK · G2957
Κυρήνη
Kurēnē — Cyrene
Κυρήνη, -ης, ἡ Cyrene, a city in Libya: Act.2:10.† (AS)
1 tagged verse occurrence · see every occurrence →GREEK · G4950
σύρτις
surtis — Syrtis
Σύρτις (L, σῦρτις), -εως, accusative -ιν, ἡ, Syrtis, the name of two large sand-banks on the Libyan coast: Act.27:17.† (AS)
1 tagged verse occurrence · see every occurrence →GREEK · G21355
ψάμμος
psammos — sabulum.
1. sand , so called from its loose, crumbling nature (from ψάω); (Odyssey by Homer), etc.:—;proverbial, ψάμμος ἀριθμὸν περιπέφευγεν (Pindar) 2. ἡ ψ. the sandy desert of Libya, (Herdotus Historicus) Both ψάμμος and ψάμαθος sometimes drop ψ and become ἄμμος, ἄμαθος. (ML)
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χθών
chthōn — soil
1. the earth, ground , (Homer); χθόνα δῦναι to go beneath the earth , i. e. to die, (Iliad by Homer); κατὰ χθονὸς κρύπτειν τινά (Sophocles Tragicus); κούφα σοι χθὼν ἐπάνω πέσοι (Euripides) 2. of the nether world , οἱ ὑπὸ χθονός, i. e. those in the shades below , Lat. inferi, (Aeschulus Tragicus); κατὰ χθονὸς θεαί, i. e. the Erinyes, (Aeschulus Tragicus) 3. earth , i. e. the whole earth, the world , (Aeschulus Tragicus) 4. Earth , as a goddess, (Aeschulus Tragicus) 5. a particular land or country , of Ithaca, (Odyssey by Homer); of Libya, (Pindar); χθὼν Ἀσιᾶτις, Δωρίς, Ἀργεία, Ἑλλάς, Ἰδαία, etc., [variant datesTragica Adespota (ML)
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The country of the Ludim (Gen. 10:13), Northern Africa, a large tract lying along the Mediterranean, to the west of Egypt (Acts 2:10). Cyrene was one of its five cities.
Scripture references
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.