Lexical Summary Rhōmē: Rome, the capital of Italy and the Rom. Empire (named after Romulus, the legendary founder) Original Word: ῬώμηTransliteration: Rhōmē Phonetic Spelling: (hro'-may) Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Short Definition: Rome, the capital of Italy and the Rom. Empire (named after Romulus, the legendary founder) Meaning: Rome -- the capital of Italy and the Roman Empire (named after Romulus, the legendary founder) Strong's Concordance Rome. From the base of rhonnumi; strength; Roma, the capital of Italy -- Rome. see GREEK rhonnumi Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 4516: ῬώμηῬώμη, Ῥώμης, ἡ (on the article with it cf. Winers Grammar, § 18, 5b.; (on its derivation cf. Curtius, § 517; Vanicek, p. 1212; Pape, Eigennamen, under the word)), Rome, the renowned capital of Italy and ancient head of the world: Acts 18:2; Acts 19:21; Acts 23:11; Acts 28:14, 16; Romans 1:7, 15; 2 Timothy 1:17. (1 Macc. 1:10 1 Macc. 7:1; (Aristotle, Polybius, others).) (On Rome in St. Paul's time cf. BB. DD. under the word; Conybeare and Howson, Life and Epistles etc., chapter xxiv.; Farrar, Life and Work etc. chh. xxxvii., xliv., xlv.; Lewin, St. Paul, vol. ii, chapter vi.; Hausrath, Neutest. Zeltgesch. iii. 65ff; on the Jews and Christians there, see particularly Schürer, Die Gemeindeverfassung der Juden in Rom in d. Kalserzeit nach d. Inschriften dargest. (Leipz. 1879); Seyerlen, Enstehung as above with der Christengemeinde in Rom (Tübingen, 1874); Huidekoper, Judaism at Rome, 2nd edition, N. Y. 1877; Schaff, Hist. of the Chris. Chnrch (1882) vol. i, § 36.) |
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