Lexical Summary Trachōnitis: Trachonitis, a rough region South of Damascus Original Word: ΤραχωνῖτιςTransliteration: Trachōnitis Phonetic Spelling: (trakh-o-nee'-tis) Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Short Definition: Trachonitis, a rough region South of Damascus Meaning: Trachonitis -- a rough region South of Damascus Strong's Concordance Trachonitis. From a derivative of trachus; rough district; Trachonitis, a region of Syria -- Trachonitis. see GREEK trachus Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 5139: ΤραχωνῖτιςΤραχωνῖτις, Τραχωνίτιδος, ἡ, Trachonitis, a rough ((Greek τραχύς)) region, tenanted by robbers, situated between Antilibanus (on the west) and the mountains of Batanaea (on the east), and bounded on the N. by the territory of Damascus: Luke 3:1 (Josephus, Antiquities 16, 9, 3 and often). (See Porter in BB. DD.) |
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