4946. Surakousai
Strong's Concordance
Surakousai: Syracuse, a large maritime city of Sicily
Original Word: Συράκουσαι, ῶν, αἱ
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Transliteration: Surakousai
Phonetic Spelling: (soo-rak'-oo-sahee)
Short Definition: Syracuse
Definition: Syracuse.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 4946: Συράκουσαι

Συράκουσαι (so accented commonly (Chandler §§ 172, 175); but according to Pape, Eigennamen, under the word, Συράκουσαι in Ptolemy, 3, 4, 9; 8, 9, 4), Συρακουσων, αἱ, Syracuse, a large maritime city of Sicily, having an excellent harbor and surrounded by a wall 180 stadia in length (so Strabo 6, p. 270; "but this statement exceeds the truth, the actual circuit being about 14 English miles or 122 stadia" (Leake, p. 279); see Dict. of Geogr. under the word, p. 1067b); now Siragosa: Acts 28:12.

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
Syracuse.

Plural of uncertain derivation; Syracuse, the capital of Sicily -- Syracuse.

Forms and Transliterations
Συρακουσας Συρακούσας Surakousas Syrakousas Syrakoúsas
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Strong's Greek 4946
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Συρακούσας — 1 Occ.

Acts 28:12 N-AFP
GRK: καταχθέντες εἰς Συρακούσας ἐπεμείναμεν ἡμέρας
NAS: After we put in at Syracuse, we stayed
KJV: at Syracuse, we tarried
INT: having put in at Syracuse we remained days

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