Lexicon Laodikeia: Laodicea, a city in Phrygia Original Word: Λαοδικεία, ας, ἡPart of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: Laodikeia Phonetic Spelling: (lah-od-ik'-i-ah) Short Definition: Laodicea Definition: Laodicea, a city in the Lycos valley in the Roman province Asia, near Colossae and Hierapolis. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom laos and dikéDefinitionLaodicea, a city in Phrygia NASB TranslationLaodicea (6).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 2993: ΛαοδίκειαΛαοδίκεια ( Λαοδικια T WH (see Iota); R G L Tr accent Λαοδίκεια, cf. Chandler § 104), Λαοδικείας, ἡ, Laodicea, a city of Phrygia, situated on the river Lycus not far from Colossae. After having been successively called Diospolis and Rhoas, it was named Laodicea in honor of Laodice, the wife of Antiochus II. ( ). It was destroyed by an earthquake, A.D. 66 (or earlier, see Lightfoots Commentary on Colossians and Philemon, p. 38f), together with Colossae and Hierapolis (see Κολοσσαί); and afterward rebuilt by Marcus Aurelius. It was the seat of a Christian church: Colossians 2:1; Colossians 4:13, 15f ((on the 'Epistle to (or 'from') the Laodiceans' see Lightfoot's Commentary, as above, pp. 274-300)); Revelation 1:11; Revelation 3:14, and in the (Rec.) subscription of the 1 Timothy (See Lightfoot's Commentary on Colossians and Philemon, Introductory § 1; Forbiger, Hndbch. d. alton Geogr. 2te Ausg. 2:347f.)
Strong's Laodicea. From a compound of laos and dike; Laodicia, a place in Asia Minor -- Laodicea. see GREEK laos see GREEK dike |
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