Tyrannus
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Tyrannus (1 Occurrence)

Acts 19:9 But when some were hardened and disobedient, speaking evil of the Way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, reasoning daily in the school of Tyrannus. (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV)

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Tyrannus's (1 Occurrence)
...Tyrannus's (1 Occurrence). ... So Paul left them, and, taking with him those who were
disciples, held discussions daily in Tyrannus's lecture-hall. (WEY). ...
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Tyrannus (1 Occurrence)
... Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. TYRANNUS. ti-ran'-us ... Greek city. Tyrannus may
have been (1) a Greek rhetorician or (2) a Jewish rabbi. (1 ...
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School (3 Occurrences)
... Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. SCHOOL. skool (schole). See TYRANNUS. Multi-Version
Concordance School (3 Occurrences). John 7:15 The Jews were astonished. ...
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Obstinate (12 Occurrences)
... congregation. So Paul left them, and, taking with him those who were disciples,
held discussions daily in Tyrannus's lecture-hall. (WEY NIV). ...
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Lecture (2 Occurrences)
... congregation. So Paul left them, and, taking with him those who were disciples,
held discussions daily in Tyrannus's lecture-hall. (WEY NIV). ...
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Lecture-hall (1 Occurrence)
... So Paul left them, and, taking with him those who were disciples, held discussions
daily in Tyrannus's lecture-hall. (WEY). << Lecture, Lecture-hall. Led >>. ...
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Grew (133 Occurrences)
... congregation. So Paul left them, and, taking with him those who were disciples,
held discussions daily in Tyrannus's lecture-hall. (WEY). ...
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Withdrew (55 Occurrences)
... and disobedient, speaking evil of the Way before the multitude, he departed from
them, and separated the disciples, reasoning daily in the school of Tyrannus. ...
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Tyrannized (1 Occurrence)

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Tyranny (4 Occurrences)

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Greek
5181. Turannos -- "absolute ruler," Tyrannus, an Ephesian
... "absolute ruler," Tyrannus, an Ephesian. Part of ... Word Origin of foreign origin
Definition "absolute ruler," Tyrannus, an Ephesian NASB Word Usage Tyrannus (1). ...
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Hitchcock's Bible Names
Tyrannus

a prince; one that reigns

Smith's Bible Dictionary
Tyrannus

(sovereign), the name of a man in whose school or place of audience Paul taught the gospel for two years, during his sojourn at Ephesus. See (Acts 19:9) (A.D. 52,53.) The presumption is that Tyrannus himself was a Greek, and a public teacher of philosophy or rhetoric.

ATS Bible Dictionary
Tyrannus

The name of a person at Ephesus, in whose school Paul publicly proposed and defended the doctrines of the gospel, Acts 19:9. By some he is thought to have been a Greek sophist, a teacher of rhetoric or philosophy, converted to Christianity; while others suppose him to have been a Jewish doctor or rabbi, who had a public school.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
TYRANNUS

ti-ran'-us (Turannos): When the Jews of Ephesus opposed Paul's teaching in the synagogue, he withdrew, and, separating his followers, reasoned daily in the school of Tyrannus. "This continued for the space of two years" (Acts 19:9, 10). D Syriac (Western text) adds after Tyrannus (Acts 19:9), "from the 5th hour unto the 10th." Schole is the lecture-hall or teaching-room of a philosopher or orator, and such were to be found m every Greek city. Tyrannus may have been

(1) a Greek rhetorician or

(2) a Jewish rabbi.

(1) This is the common opinion, and many identify him with a certain Tyrannus, a sophist, mentioned by Suidas. Paul would thus appear to be one of the traveling rhetors of the time, who had hired such a hall to proclaim his own peculiar philosophy (Ramsay, Paul the Traveler, 246, 271).

(2) Meyer thinks that as the apostle had not passed wholly to the Gentiles, and Jews still flocked to hear him, and also that as Tyrannus is not spoken of as a proselyte (sebomenos ton Theon), this schole is the beth Midrash of a Jewish rabbi. "Paul with his Christians withdrew from the public synagogue to the private synagogue of Tyrannus, where he and his doctrine were more secure from public annoyance" (Meyer in the place cited.).

(3) Another view (Overbeck) is that the expression was the standing name of the place after the original owner.

S. F. Hunter

Easton's Bible Dictionary
Prince, a Greek rhetorician, in whose "school" at Ephesus Paul disputed daily for the space of two years with those who came to him (Acts 19:9). Some have supposed that he was a Jew, and that his "school" was a private synagogue.

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