Lexical Summary Aithiops: Ethiopian Original Word: ΑἰθίοψTransliteration: Aithiops Phonetic Spelling: (ahee-thee'-ops) Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Short Definition: Ethiopian Meaning: Ethiopian Strong's Concordance Ethiopian. From aitho (to scorch) and ops (the face, from optanomai); an ?Thiopian (as a blackamoor) -- Ethiopian. see GREEK optanomai Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 128: ΑἰθίοψΑἰθίοψ, (οπος, ὁ (αἴθω, to burn, and ὤψ (ὄψ), the face; swarthy), Ethiopian (Hebrew כּוּשִׁי): Acts 8:27, here the reference is to upper Ethiopia, called Habesh or Abyssinia, a country of Africa adjoining Egypt and including the island Meroe; (see Dillmann in Schenkel i. 285ff; Alex.'s Kitto or McClintock and Strong's Cyclopaedia under the word |
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