Lexicon Melité: Melita (Malta), an island in the Mediterranean Original Word: Μελίτη, ης, ἡPart of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: Melité Phonetic Spelling: (mel-ee'-tay) Short Definition: Melita, Malta Definition: Melita, now Malta. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originof uncertain origin DefinitionMelita (Malta), an island in the Mediterranean NASB TranslationMalta (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 3194: ΜελίτηΜελίτη, Μελιτης, ἡ, Melita, the name of an island in the Mediterranean, lying between Africa and Sicily, now called Malta; (this Sicula Melita must not be confounded with Melita Illyrica in the Adriatic, now called Meleda (see B. D. under the word ; Smith, Voyage and Shipwr. of St. Paul, Diss. ii.)): Acts 28:1 (where WH Μελιηνη; see their Appendix, p. 160). STRONGS NT 3194: Μελιτήνη [Μελιτήνη, see the preceding word.]
Strong's Melita. Of uncertain origin; Melita, an island in the Mediterranean -- Melita. |
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