BIBLE DICTIONARY + WORD STUDY
How to read this: there is rarely one magic “true meaning” hidden behind an English word. A lexicon records a word’s semantic range. The intended meaning is narrowed by grammar, sentence, author, historical usage and context.
GREEK · G5435
Phrugia — Phrygia
φρυγία, -ας, ἡ (prop., the adj., Φρυγίος, -α, -ον; sc. γῆ, χώρα), Phrygia, a region of Asia Minor: Act.2:10; Φ. καὶ Γαλατικὴ χώρα (Γ. χ. κ. Φ.), Act.16:6 18:23 (on these phrases see DB, i, 89 f.; CGT, Gal., xxii f.).† (AS)
3 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →GREEK · G2993
Laodikeia — Laodicea
Λαοδικία (Rec. -εία), -ας, ἡ Laodicea, a city on the Lycus in Phrygia: Col.2:1 4:13, 15-16, Rev.1:11 3:14.† (AS)
6 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →GREEK · G2857
Kolossai — Colossae
Κολοσσαί (so in cl.; -ασσαί, Rec., LTr.), -ῶν, αἰ Colossæ, a city on the Lycus in Phrygia: Col.1:2.† (AS)
1 tagged verse occurrence · see every occurrence →GREEK · G3818
Pakatianē — Pacatiana
Πακατιανή, -ῆς, ἡ Pacatiana, the Western part of the Province of Phrygia, as constituted in 4/A.D.: 1Ti subscr. (Rec.).† (AS)
0 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →Dry, an irregular and ill-defined district in Asia Minor. It was divided into two parts, the Greater Phrygia on the south, and the Lesser Phrygia on the west. It is the Greater Phrygia that is spoken of in the New Testament. The towns of Antioch in Pisidia (Acts 13:14), Colosse, Hierapolis, Iconium, and Laodicea were situated in it.
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.
