Lexical Summary Pergamos: Pergamum, a city of Mysia Original Word: ΠέργαμοςTransliteration: Pergamos Phonetic Spelling: (per'-gam-os) Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Short Definition: Pergamum, a city of Mysia Meaning: Pergamum -- a city of Mysia Strong's Concordance PergamumFrom purgos; fortified; Pergamus, a place in Asia Minor -- Pergamos. see GREEK purgos Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 4010: ΠέργαμοςΠέργαμος (perhaps Περγαμμον, τό (the gender in the N. T. is indeterminate; cf. Lob. ad Phryn., p. 421f; Pape, Eigennamen, see under the words)), Περγαμου, ἡ, Pergamus (or Pergamum (cf. Curtius, § 413)), a city of Mysia Major in Asia Minor, the seat of the dynasties of Attalus and Eumenes, celebrated for the temple of Aesculapius, and the invention ((?) cf. Gardthausen, Griech. Palaeogr., p. 39f; Birt, Antikes Buchwesen, chapter ii.) and manufacture of parchment. The river Selinus flowed through it and the Cetius ran past it (Strabo 13, p. 623; Pliny, 5, 30 (33); 13, 11 (21); Tacitus, ann. 3, 63). It was the birthplace of the physician Galen, and had a great royal library. Modern Berghama. There was a Christian church there: Revelation 1:11; Revelation 2:12. |
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