G5019 – Tarsos – Ταρσός – Tarsus
- Strong’s ID:
- G5019
- Greek Word:
- Ταρσός
- Transliteration:
- Tarsos
- Pronunciation:
- tar-sos’
- Part of Speech:
- noun proper locative
- Usage Count:
- 3
- Search:
- Find “Tarsos” in the Bible (New Testament)
Strong’s Greek Lexicon
perhaps the same as ταρσος tarsos (a flat basket); Tarsus, a place in Asia Minor:—Tarsus.
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
Tarsus = “a flat basket”
1) a major city in Cilicia and the birthplace and early home of Paul. Acts 9:11; 21:39; 22:3. Even in the flourishing period of Greek history it was an important city. In the Roman civil wars, it sided with Caesar and on the occasion of a visit from him its name changed to Juliopolis. Augustus made it a free city. Its was renowned as a place of education under the early Roman emperors. Strabo compares it in this respect to Athens and Alexandria. Tarsus also was a place of much commerce. It was situated in a wild and fertile plain on the banks of the Cydnus. No ruins of any importance remain.
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.