Lexicon bounos: a hill Original Word: βουνός, οῦ, ὁPart of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: bounos Phonetic Spelling: (boo-nos') Short Definition: a hillock, hill Definition: a hillock, hill. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originprobably of foreign origin Definitiona hill NASB Translationhill (1), hills (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 1015: βουνόςβουνός, βουνοῦ, ὁ, a Cyrenaic word according to Herodotus 4, 199, which Eustathius (831, 33) on Iliad 11, 710 says was used by Philemon (No theta 1), a comic poet (of the 3rd century B.C.). It was rejected by the Atticists, but from Polybius on (who (5, 22, 1f) uses it interchangeably with λόφος) it was occasionally received by the later Greek writings. (Strabo, Pausanias, Plutarch, others); in the Sept. very often for גִּבְעָה; (perhaps from ΒΑΩ to ascend (cf. Hesychius βουνοί. βωμοί, and βωμιδες in Herodotus 2, 125 (Schmidt, chapter 99, 11))); a hill, eminence, mound: Luke 3:5 (Isaiah 40:4); (Hosea 10:8). Cf. Sturz, De dial. Maced. etc., p. 153f; Lob. ad Phryn., p. 355f; (Donaldson, New Crat. § 469).
Strong's hill. Probably of foreign origin; a hillock -- hill. |
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