Lexical Summary Libertinos: Freedman, the name of a synagogue Original Word: ΛιβερτῖνοςTransliteration: Libertinos Phonetic Spelling: (lib-er-tee'-nos) Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Short Definition: Freedman, the name of a synagogue Meaning: Freedman -- the name of a synagogue Strong's Concordance Roman freedman, LibertineOf Latin origin; a Roman freedman -- Libertine. Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 3032: ΛιβερτῖνοςΛιβερτῖνος, Λιβερτινου, ὁ, a Latin word,libertinus, i. e. either one who has been liberated from slavery, a freedman, or the son of a freedman (as distinguished fromingenuus, i. e. the son of a free man): ἡ συναγωγή ἡ λεγομένη (or τῶν λεγομένων Tdf.) Λιβερτίνων, Acts 6:9. Some suppose these libertini (A. V. Libertines) to have been manumitted Roman slaves, who having embraced Judaism had their synagogue at Jerusalem; and they gather as much from Tacitus, Ann. 2, 85, where it is related that four thousand libertini, infected with the Jewish superstition, were sent into Sardinia. Others, owing to the names Κυρηναίων καί Ἀλλεξανδρεων that follow, think that a geographical meaning is demanded for Λιβερτινοι, and suppose that Jews are spoken of, the dwellers in Libertum, a city or region of proconsular Africa. But the existence of a city or region called Libertum is a conjecture which has nothing to rest on but the mention of a bishop with the prefix libertinensis at the synod of Carthage |
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