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Koine Greek wordlink #94948

SR GNT Acts 16:12 κολωνία (kolōnia) ‘district of Makedonia city a colony we were and in’ Strongs=28620 Lemma=kolōnia^*
Word role=noun case=nominative gender=feminine number=singular
Year=53 AD Event=Call_to_Macedonia TimeSeries=Call_to_Macedonia,Second_Missionary_Journey

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Only use of identical word form κολωνία (N-NFS) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘κολωνία’ (N-NFS) is always and only glossed as ‘a colony’.

Acts 16:12 ‘district of Makedonia city a colony we were and in’ SR GNT Acts 16:12 word 16

OET-LV: 12 and _from _there to Filippou, which is the_leading city of _the district of _Makedonia, a_colony. And we _were staying in this the city some days. (ACT_16:12)

OET-RV: 12 From there we continued on to Philippi which is a Roman colony and the capital city of the Macedonia district where we stayed for several days. (ACT 16:12)

^*Note: This is also the only occurrence of the word root (lemma) ‘kolōnia’ in the Greek originals.

Key: N=noun NFS=nominative,feminine,singular