Word Summary
Thyateira: Thyatira, a city of Lydia
Original Word: ΘυάτειραTransliteration: Thyateira
Phonetic Spelling: (thoo-at'-i-rah)
Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter
Short Definition: Thyatira, a city of Lydia
Meaning: Thyatira -- a city of Lydia
Strong's Concordance
Thyatira.
Of uncertain derivation; Thyatira, a place in Asia Minor -- Thyatira.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 2363: ΘυάτειραΘυάτειρα,
Θυατείρων,
τά (and once
Θυατειρας,
ἡ,
Revelation 1:11 Lachmann
Θυατειραν (cf.
Tdf. at the passage;
WHs Appendix, p. 156;
Buttmann, 18 (16))),
Thyatira, a city of Lydia, formerly Pelopia and Euhippia (
Pliny, h. n. 5, 31), now Akhissar, a colony of Macedonian Greeks, situated between Sardis and Pergamum on the river Lycus; its inhabitants gained their living by traffic and the art of dyeing in purple:
Acts 16:14;
Revelation 1:11;
Revelation 2:18, 24. (
B. D. under the word.)