Strong's Concordance Emmaous: Emmaus, a place 60 stadia (7.5 miles) west of Jer. Original Word: Ἐμμαούς, ἡPart of Speech: Proper Noun, Indeclinable Transliteration: Emmaous Phonetic Spelling: (em-mah-ooce') Definition: Emmaus, a place 60 stadia (7.5 miles) west of Jer Usage: Emmaus, a village not far from Jerusalem. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originprobably of Hebrew origin, cf. yem Definition Emmaus, a place 60 stadia (7.5 miles) west of Jer. NASB Translation Emmaus (1). Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 1695: ἘμμαοῦςἘμμαοῦς (in Josephus also Αμμαους), ἡ, Emmaus (Latin genitive-untis), a village 30 stadia from Jerusalem (according to the true reading (so Dindorf and Bekker) in Josephus, b. j. 7, 6, 6; not, as is commonly said, following the authority of Luke, 60 stadia), apparently represented by the modern Kulonieh (cf. Ewald, Gesch. des Volkes Israel, 2te Ausg. vi., p. 675f; (Caspari, Chronolog. and Geograph. Introduction to the Life of Christ § 191; Sepp, Jerus. u. d. heil. Land, 1:52)): Luke 24:13. There was a town of the same name in the level country of Judaea, 175 stadia from Jerusalem, noted for its hot springs and for the slaughter of the Syrians routed by Judas Maccabaeus, 1 Macc. 3:40, 57; afterward fortified by Bacchides, the Syrian leader, 1 Macc. 9:50, and from the 3rd century on called Nicopolis (B. D., under the word Strong's Exhaustive Concordance Emmaus. Probably of Hebrew origin (compare yem); Emmaus, a place in Palestine -- Emmaus. see HEBREW yem Forms and Transliterations Εμμαους Ἐμμαούς Ἐμμαοῦς Emmaous EmmaoúsLinks Interlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel Texts |
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