Ἱεράπολις
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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἱερός (hierós, “holy”) + πόλις (pólis, “city”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /hi.e.rǎː.po.lis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /(h)i.eˈra.po.lis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /i.eˈra.po.lis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /i.eˈra.po.lis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /i.eˈra.po.lis/
Proper noun
Ἱερᾱ́πολις • (Hierā́polis) f (genitive Ἱερᾱπόλεως); third declension
- Hierapolis, a city in Anatolia.
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
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| Nominative | ἡ Ῐ̔ερᾱ́πολῐς hē Hierā́polis | ||||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς Ῐ̔ερᾱπόλεως tês Hierāpóleōs | ||||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ Ῐ̔ερᾱπόλει têi Hierāpólei | ||||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν Ῐ̔ερᾱ́πολῐν tḕn Hierā́polin | ||||||||||||
| Vocative | Ῐ̔ερᾱ́πολῐ Hierā́poli | ||||||||||||
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Derived terms
- Ἱερᾱπολίτης (Hierāpolítēs)
Descendants
- Greek: Ιεράπολη (Ierápoli)
References
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- G2404 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Nestle, Eberhard, Aland, Kurt with et al. (2012) Novum Testamentum Graece, 28th revised edition, 4th corrected printing edition, Stuttgart: Stuttgart Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, →ISBN