Word Summary
Syrakousai: Syracuse, a large maritime city of Sicily
Original Word: ΣυράκουσαιTransliteration: Syrakousai
Phonetic Spelling: (soo-rak'-oo-sahee)
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Short Definition: Syracuse, a large maritime city of Sicily
Meaning: Syracuse -- a large maritime city of Sicily
Strong's Concordance
Syracuse.
Plural of uncertain derivation; Syracuse, the capital of Sicily -- Syracuse.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 4946: ΣυράκουσαιΣυράκουσαι (so accented commonly (
Chandler §§ 172, 175); but according to
Pape, Eigennamen, under the word,
Συράκουσαι in
Ptolemy, 3, 4, 9; 8, 9, 4),
Συρακουσων,
αἱ,
Syracuse, a large maritime city of Sicily, having an excellent harbor and surrounded by a wall 180 stadia in length (so
Strabo 6, p. 270; "but this statement exceeds the truth, the actual circuit being about 14 English miles or 122 stadia" (Leake, p. 279); see
Dict. of Geogr. under the word, p. 1067b); now Siragosa:
Acts 28:12.