Ἀθηναῖος
Athēnaios · Athenian
Greek word · Strong’s number G117 · appears 2 times in the Bible
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Athēnaios (Ἀθηναῖος) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “Athenian”.
A person from Athens.
How to say it
A·thē·nai·os
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- A citizen of the philosophers' city in Achaia, eager for novelties.
From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- Athenians ×1
- Athens ×1
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Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Acts 17:21
Now all the Athenians and the foreigners residing there spent their time in nothing else than telling something or hearing something new.
- Acts 17:22
So Paul, standing in the middle of the Areopagus, said, “Men of Athens, I see how very religious you are in every way.