G116 – Athenai – Ἀθῆναι – Athens
- Strong’s ID:
- G116
- Greek Word:
- Ἀθῆναι
- Transliteration:
- Athenai
- Pronunciation:
- ath-ay-nahee
- Part of Speech:
- noun proper locative
- Usage Count:
- 6
- Search:
- Find “Athenai” in the Bible (New Testament)
Strong’s Greek Lexicon
plural of Αθηνη Athene (the goddess of wisdom, who was reputed to have founded the city); Athenoe, the capitol of Greece:—Athens.
Owing to changes in the enumeration while in progress, there were no words left for numbers 2717 and 3203–3302, which were therefore silently dropped out of the vocabulary and references as redundant.
Thayer’s Greek Definitions
Athens = “uncertainty”
1) A famous city in Greece, the capital of Attica, and the chief seat of learning and civilisation during the golden period of the history of Greece
Thayer’s Definitions are as edited by the Online Bible of Winterbourne, Ontario. They removed the etymology, cross-references, and Greek phrases and changed some of Thayer’s Unitarian doctrinal positions concerning the work and person of Christ.