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Ἀβιληνή

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Forms of the word
Dictionary: 
Ἀβιληνή, ῆς, ἡ
Greek transliteration: 
Abilēnē
Simplified transliteration: 
Abilene
Numbers
Strong's number: 
9
GK Number: 
9
Statistics
Frequency in New Testament: 
1
Morphology of Biblical Greek Tag: 
n-1b
Gloss: 
Abilene, a territory on the south end of the Ante-Lebanon mountain range, [prob.] {meadow
Definition: 
Abilene, a district of the Syrian Decapolis; from Abila, the chief town, Lk. 3:1*

Greek-English Concordance for Ἀβιληνή

Luke 3:1 In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, when Pontius Pilate was governing Judea, and Herod was tetrarch of Galilee and Philip his brother tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias was tetrarch of Abilene (Abilēnēs | Ἀβιληνῆς | gen sg fem),