Lexicon Assos: Assos, a city on the W. coast of Asia Minor Original Word: Ἄσσος, ου, ἡPart of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: Assos Phonetic Spelling: (as'-sos) Short Definition: Assos Definition: Assos, a port of Mysia, in the Roman province Asia. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originof uncertain origin DefinitionAssos, a city on the W. coast of Asia Minor NASB TranslationAssos (2).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 789: ΑσσοςΑσσος (so all editions, perhaps better Ασσος; Chandler § 317, cf. § 319; Pape, Eigennamen under the word), Ἀσσου, ἡ, Assos, a maritime city in Asia Minor, on the Aegean Sea (Gulf of Adramyttium), and nine (according to Tab. Peuting. (edited by Fortin d'Urban, Paris 1845, p. 170) 20 to 25) miles (see Hackett on Acts as below) distant (to the south) from Troas, a city of Lesser Phrygia: Acts 20:13f; (formerly read also in Acts 27:13 after the Vulg.; cf. ἆσσον. See Papers of the Archaeol. Inst. of America, Classical Series i. (1882) especially, pp. 60ff).
Strong's Assos. Probably of foreign origin; Assus, a city of Asia minor -- Assos. |
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