Lexical Summary Christianos: a Christian Original Word: ΧριστιανόςTransliteration: Christianos Phonetic Spelling: (khris-tee-an-os') Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Short Definition: a Christian Meaning: Christian -- a Christian Strong's Concordance Christian. From Christos; a Christian, i.e. Follower of Christ -- Christian. see GREEK Christos Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 5546: ΧριστιανόςΧριστιανός (cf. Lightfoot on Philip., p. 16 note), Χριστιανου, ὁ (Χριστός), a Christian, a follower of Christ: Acts 11:26; Acts 26:28; 1 Peter 4:16. The name was first given to the worshippers of Jesus by the Gentiles, but from the second century (Justin Martyr (e. g. Apology 1, 4, p. 55 a.; dialog contra Trypho, § 35; cf. 'Teaching etc. 12, 4 [ET])) onward accepted by them as a title of honor. CL Lipsius, Ueber Ursprung u. ältesten Gebrauch des Christennamens. 4to, pp. 20, Jen. 1873. (CL Sophocles' Lexicon, under the word, 2; Farrar in Alex.'s Kitto, under the word; on the 'Titles of Believers in the N. T.' see Westcott, Epistles of St. John, p. 125f; cf. Dict. of Chris. Antiqq., under the word 'Faithful'.) |
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