G2957 – Kurene – Κυρήνη – Cyrene
- Strong’s ID:
- G2957
- Greek Word:
- Κυρήνη
- Transliteration:
- Kurene
- Pronunciation:
- koo-ray’-nay
- Part of Speech:
- noun proper locative
- Usage Count:
- 1
- Search:
- Find “Kurene” in the Bible (New Testament)
Strong’s Greek Lexicon
of uncertain derivation; Cyrene, a region of Africa:—Cyrene.
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
Cyrene = “supremacy of the bridle”
1) a large and very flourishing city of Libya Cyrenaica or Pentapolitana, about 11 miles (17 km) from the sea. Among its inhabitants were a great number of Jews, whom Ptolemy I. had brought there, and invested with the right of citizens
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.