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Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Koine Greek Ἀκκαρωνίτης (Akkarōnítēs) in the Septuagint, from Biblical Hebrew עֶקְרוֹנִי (ʿEqrōnî).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Accarōnīta m (genitive Accarōnītae); first declension
- (Ecclesiastical Latin) Ekronite
405 CE,
Jerome,
Vulgate I Samuelis.5.10:
- Miserunt ergo arcam Dei in Accaron. Cumque venisset arca Dei in Accaron, exclamaverunt Accaronitae dicentes: Adduxerunt ad nos arcam Dei Israel ut interficiat nos et populum nostrum.
- So they sent the ark of God into Ekron. And when the ark of God arrived in Ekron, the Ekronites shouted out, saying: They have brought the ark of the God of Israel to us, for him to kill us and our people.
c. 672 CE – 735 CE,
Bede,
Commentaria in I Samuelis 7:
- Accaronita quippe Sergius Paulus proconsul, Accaronita erat Dionysius Ariopagita.
- For the proconsul Sergius Paulus was an Ekronite; Dionysius the Areopagite was an Ekronite.
Declension
First-declension noun.