Original Word: Ἄρειος πάγος, ου, ὁ
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Transliteration: Areios Pagos
Phonetic Spelling: (ar'-i-os pag'-os)
Short Definition: the Areopagus
Definition: Areopagus, or Mar's Hill, an open space on a hill in Athens where the supreme court was held.STRONGS NT 697: Ἄρειος

Ἄρειος (Tdf. Ἀριος) Πάγος, Πάγου, ὁ, Areopagus (a rocky height in the city of Athens not far from the Acropolis toward the west; πάγος a hill, Ἄρειος belonging to (Ares) Mars, Mars' Hill; so called, because, as the story went, Mars, having slain Halirrhothius, son of Neptune, for the attempted violation of his daughter Alcippe, was tried for the murder here before the twelve gods as judges; Pausan. Attic. 1, 28, 5), the place where the judges convened who, by appointment of Solon, had jurisdiction of capital offences (as willful murder, arson, poisoning, malicious wounding, and breach of the established religious usages). The court itself was called Areopagus from the place where it sat, alsoAreumjudicium (Tacitus, ann. 2, 55), andcuriaMartis (Juvenal, sat. 9, 101). To that hill the apostle Paul was led, not to defend himself before the judges, but that he might set forth his opinions on divine subjects to a greater multitude of people, flocking together there and eager to hear something new: Acts 17:19-22; cf. Acts 17:32. Cf. J. H. Krause in Pauly's Real-Encycl. 2te Aufi. i. 2, p. 1497ff under the word Areopag; (Grote, Hist. of Greece, index under the word; Dicts. of Geogr. and Antiq.; BB. DD. under the word ; and on Paul's discourse, especially B. D. American edition under the word ).

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

Areopagus, Mars' Hill.

From Ares (the name of the Greek deity of war) and a derivative of pegnumi; rock of Ares, a place in Athens -- Areopagus, Mars' Hill.

see GREEK pegnumi

Forms and Transliterations

Αρειον Ἄρειον Αρειου Ἀρείου Παγον Πάγον Παγου Πάγου Areion Áreion Areiou Areíou Pagon Págon Pagou Págou

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