Lexical Summary Kolossai: Colossae, a city in Phrygia Original Word: ΚολοσσαίTransliteration: Kolossai Phonetic Spelling: (kol-os-sah'-ee) Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Short Definition: Colossae, a city in Phrygia Meaning: Colossae -- a city in Phrygia Strong's Concordance Colosse. Apparently feminine plural of kolossos ("colossal"); Colossae, a place in Asia Minor -- Colosse. Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 2857: ΚολασσαίΚολασσαί, see Κολοσσαί. STRONGS NT 2857: ΚολοσσαίΚολοσσαί (R T WH, the classical form), and Κολασσαί (Rst L Tr, apparently the later popular form; (see WH. Introductory § 423,and especially Lightfoots Commentary on Colossians, p. 16f); cf. Winers Grammar, p. 44; and on the plural Winer's Grammar, § 27, 3), Κολοσσων, αἱ, Colossae, anciently a large and flourishing city, but in Strabo's time a πόλισμα (i. e. small town (Lightfoot)) of Phrygia Major situated on the Lycus, not far from its junction with the Maeander, and in the neighborhood of Laodicea and Hierapolis (Herodotus 7, 30; Xenophon, an. 1, 2, 6; Strabo 12, 8, 13, p. 576; Pliny, h. n. 5, 41), together with which cities it was destroyed by an earthquake (about) |
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