ΞšΞΏΞ»ΞΏΟƒΟƒΞ±α½·
Transliteration
kolossai (Key)
Pronunciation
kol-os-sah'-ee
Part of Speech
proper locative noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Apparently feminine plural of kolossos ("colossal")
mGNT
1x in 1 unique form(s) TR
1x in 1 unique form(s) LXX
0x in 0 unique form(s)
ΞšΞΏΞ»Ξ±ΟƒΟƒΞ±αΏ–Ο‚ — 1x
ΞšΞΏΞ»ΞΏΟƒΟƒΞ±αΏ–Ο‚ — 1x
Strong’s Definitions

†ΞšΞΏΞ»ΞΏΟƒΟƒΞ±α½· Kolossaí, kol-os-sah'-ee; apparently feminine plural of kolossos ("colossal"); ColossΓ¦, a place in Asia Minor:—Colosse.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 1x

The KJV translates Strong's G2857 in the following manner: Colosse (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 1x
The KJV translates Strong's G2857 in the following manner: Colosse (1x).

  1. Colosse = "monstrosities"

    1. anciently a large and flourishing city, but in Strabo's time a small town of Phrygia Major situated on the Lycus not far from its junction with the Maeander and in the neighbourhood of Laodicea and Hierapolis

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
†ΞšΞΏΞ»ΞΏΟƒΟƒΞ±α½· Kolossaí, kol-os-sah'-ee; apparently feminine plural of kolossos ("colossal"); ColossΓ¦, a place in Asia Minor:—Colosse.
STRONGS G2857:
ΞšΞΏΞ»ΞΏΟƒΟƒΞ±α½· (R T WH, the classical form), and ΞšΞΏΞ»Ξ±ΟƒΟƒΞ±α½· (Rst L Tr, apparently the later popular form; (see WH. Introductory Β§ 423,and especially Lightfoots Commentary on Colossians, p. 16f); cf. Winers Grammar, p. 44; and on the plural Winer's Grammar, Β§ 27, 3), ΞšΞΏΞ»ΞΏΟƒΟƒΟ‰Ξ½, Ξ±αΌ±, Colossae, anciently a large and flourishing city, but in Strabo's time a πόλισμα (i. e. small town (Lightfoot)) of Phrygia Major situated on the Lycus, not far from its junction with the Maeander, and in the neighborhood of Laodicea and Hierapolis (Herodotus 7, 30; Xenophon, an. 1, 2, 6; Strabo 12, 8, 13, p. 576; Pliny, h. n. 5, 41), together with which cities it was destroyed by an earthquake (about) A.D. 66 ((Eusebius, chron. Ol. 210); Orosius Paulus, 7, 7 (see especially Lightfoot as above, p. 38)): Colossians 1:2. (See the full description, with copious references, by Lightfoot as above, pp. 1-72.)
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References

Colossians
Colossians 1:2
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