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Lexicon :: Strong's G128 - aithiops

Aa
Αἰθίοψ
Transliteration
aithiops (Key)
Pronunciation
ahee-thee'-ops
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From aitho (to scorch) and ops (the face, from ὀπτάνομαι (G3700))
Strong’s Definitions

Αἰθίοψ Aithíops, ahee-thee'-ops; from αἴθω aíthō (to scorch) and ὤψ ṓps (the face, from G3700); an Æthiopian (as a blackamoor):—Ethiopian.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 2x

The KJV translates Strong's G128 in the following manner: Ethiopian (2x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 2x
The KJV translates Strong's G128 in the following manner: Ethiopian (2x).

  1. Ethiopian = "black"

    1. an Ethiopian

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
Αἰθίοψ Aithíops, ahee-thee'-ops; from αἴθω aíthō (to scorch) and ὤψ ṓps (the face, from G3700); an Æthiopian (as a blackamoor):—Ethiopian.
STRONGS G128:
Αἰθίοψ, -οπος, ὁ, (αἴθω, to burn, and ὤψ [ὄψ], the face; swarthy), Ethiopian (Hebrew כּוּשִׁי): Acts 8:27, here the reference is to upper Ethiopia, called Habesh or Abyssinia, a country of Africa adjoining Egypt and including the island Meroë; [see Dillmann in Schenkel i. 285ff; Alex.'s Kitto or McClintock and Strong's Cyclopaedia under the word Ethiopia. Cf. Bib. Sacr. for 1866, p. 515].
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Acts
8:27

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G128 matches the Greek Αἰθίοψ (aithiops),
which occurs 27 times in 26 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:9 - And when he heard say of Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, Behold, he is come out to fight against thee, he sent messengers again unto Hezekiah, saying,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 12:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 12:3 - with twelve hundred chariots, and threescore thousand horsemen. And the people were without number that came with him out of Egypt: the Lubim, the Sukkiim, and the Ethiopians.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:9 - And there came out against them Zerah the Ethiopian with an army of a thousand thousand, and three hundred chariots; and he came unto Mareshah.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:12 - So Jehovah smote the Ethiopians before Asa, and before Judah; and the Ethiopians fled.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:13 - And Asa and the people that were with him pursued them unto Gerar: and there fell of the Ethiopians so many that they could not recover themselves; for they were destroyed before Jehovah, and before his host; and they carried away very much booty.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 16:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 16:8 - Were not the Ethiopians and the Lubim a huge host, with chariots and horsemen exceeding many? yet, because thou didst rely on Jehovah, he delivered them into thy hand.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 21:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 21:16 - And Jehovah stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines, and of the Arabians that are beside the Ethiopians:

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 72:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 72:9 -
They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him;
And his enemies shall lick the dust.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 74:14

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 74:14 -
Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces;
Thou gavest him to be food to the people inhabiting the wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 87:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 87:4 -
I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon as among them that know me:
Behold, Philistia, and Tyre, with Ethiopia:
This one was born there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 20:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 20:3 - And Jehovah said, Like as my servant Isaiah hath walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and a wonder concerning Egypt and concerning Ethiopia;

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 20:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 20:4 - so shall the king of Assyria lead away the captives of Egypt, and the exiles of Ethiopia, young and old, naked and barefoot, and with buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 20:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 20:5 - And they shall be dismayed and confounded, because of Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their glory.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:9 - And he heard say concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, He is come out to fight against thee. And when he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:14

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:14 - Thus saith Jehovah, The labor of Egypt, and the merchandise of Ethiopia, and the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over unto thee, and they shall be thine: they shall go after thee, in chains they shall come over; and they shall fall down unto thee, they shall make supplication unto thee, saying, Surely God is in thee; and there is none else, there is no God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:23 - Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:7 - Now when Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, a eunuch, who was in the king’s house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon (the king then sitting in the gate of Benjamin),

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 39:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 39:16 - Go, and speak to Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, saying, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will bring my words upon this city for evil, and not for good; and they shall be accomplished before thee in that day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:9 - Go up, ye horses; and rage, ye chariots; and let the mighty men go forth: Cush and Put, that handle the shield; and the Ludim, that handle and bend the bow.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:10 - therefore, behold, I am against thee, and against thy rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt an utter waste and desolation, from the tower of Seveneh even unto the border of Ethiopia.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:5 - Persia, Cush, and Put with them, all of them with shield and helmet;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:43

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:43 - But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt; and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 9:7

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 9:7 - Are ye not as the children of the Ethiopians unto me, O children of Israel? saith Jehovah. Have not I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt, and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir?

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Unchecked Copy BoxHab 3:7

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 3:7 -
I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction;
The curtains of the land of Midian did tremble.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZep 2:12

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 2:12 - Ye Ethiopians also, ye shall be slain by my sword.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZep 3:10

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 3:10 - From beyond the rivers of Ethiopia my suppliants, even the daughter of my dispersed, shall bring mine offering.
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