Lexical Summary Trōas: Troas, a city near the Hellespont (i.e. Dardanelles) Original Word: ΤρῳάςTransliteration: Trōas Phonetic Spelling: (tro-as') Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Short Definition: Troas, a city near the Hellespont (i.e. Dardanelles) Meaning: Troas -- a city near the Hellespont (Dardanelles) Strong's Concordance Troas. From Tros (a Trojan); the Troad (or plain of Troy), i.e. Troas, a place in Asia Minor -- Troas. Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 5174: ΤρῳάςΤρῳάς, and (so L T WH (see Iota and references in Pape, Eigennamen, under the word)) Τρῳάς, Τρῳάδος, ἡ (on the article with it see Winers Grammar, § 5, b.), Troas, a city near the Hellespont, formerly called Ἀντιγονεια Τρῳάς, but by Lysimachus Ἀλεξάνδρεια ἡ Τρῳάς in honor of Alexander the Great; it flourished under the Romans (and with its environs was raised by Augustus to acolonia juris italici, 'the Troad'; cf. Strabo 13, 1, 26; Pliny, 5, 33): Acts 16:8, 11; Acts 20:5; 2 Corinthians 2:12; 2 Timothy 4:13. (B. D. under the word.) |
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