Word Summary
Mesopotamia: Mesopotamia, a region through which the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers flow
Original Word: ΜεσοποταμίαTransliteration: Mesopotamia
Phonetic Spelling: (mes-op-ot-am-ee'-ah)
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Short Definition: Mesopotamia, a region through which the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers flow
Meaning: Mesopotamia -- a region through which the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers flow
Strong's Concordance
Mesopotamia.
From mesos and potamos; Mesopotamia (as lying between the Euphrates and the Tigris; compare 'Aram Naharayim), a region of Asia -- Mesopotamia.
see GREEK mesos
see GREEK potamos
see HEBREW 'Aram Naharayim
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 3318: ΜεσοποταμίαΜεσοποταμία,
Μεσοποταμίας,
ἡ (feminine of
μεσοποτάμιος,
Μεσοποταμία,
μεσοποταμιον, namely,
χώρα; from
μέσος and
ποταμός),
Mesopotamia, the name, not so much political as geographical (scarcely in use before the time of Alexander the Great), of a region in Asia, lying between the rivers Euphrates and Tigris (whence it took its name; cf.
Arrian. anab. Alex. 7, 7; Tar. ann. 6, 37;
נַהֲרַיִם אֲרַם,
Aram of the two rivers, Genesis 24:10), bounded on the north by the range of Taurus and on the south by the Persian Gulf; many Jews bad settled in it (
Josephus, Antiquities 12, 3, 4):
Acts 2:9;
Acts 7:2. (Cf. Socin in Encycl. Brit. edition 9, under the word; Rawlinson,
Herodotus, vol. i. Essay ix.)