G3033
Λιβύη · Libuē
Glosses: Libya
Libya, the north part of Africa west of Egypt, (Odyssey by Homer); in later writers also for the whole Continent (ML)
Indexed occurrences: 0
Source: STEPBible TBESG (based primarily on Abbott-Smith)
PLACE · Complete Bible Study
Libya
The name, in its largest sense, was used by the Greeks to denote the whole of Africa. But Libya Proper, or the Libya of the New Testament, the country of the Lubims of the Old, was a large country lying along the Mediterranean, on the west of Egypt. Libya is rendered in the installed Bible Names resource as “the heart of the sea; fat.” This unified study connects 8 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.
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- Nave’s Topical Bible — Public domain
- Hitchcock’s Bible Names Dictionary (1869)
- Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
- A Biblical and Theological Dictionary
- concordance
- STEPBible TBESG (based primarily on Abbott-Smith)
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- Greek
- Λιβύη · Libuē
- Name meaning
- the heart of the sea; fat According to Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
Strong’s and original-language information
Complete dictionary entries
Hitchcock’s Bible Names Dictionary (1869)
Libya
the heart of the sea; fat
Source: Hitchcock’s Bible Names Dictionary (1869) · View data sources
A Biblical and Theological Dictionary
LIBYA
The name, in its largest sense, was used by the Greeks to denote the whole of Africa. But Libya Proper, or the Libya of the New Testament, the country of the Lubims of the Old, was a large country lying along the Mediterranean, on the west of Egypt. It was called Pentapolitana Regio by Pliny, from its five chief cities, Berenice, Arsinoe, Ptolemais, Apollonia, and Cyrene;
Source: A Biblical and Theological Dictionary · View data sources
Concordance
Concordance
Libya
Indexed occurrences: 3
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All Scripture references3 references
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Topical Bible
Naves Topical
LIBYA
Entry:
Nave’s Topical Bible references for LIBYA.
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Bible Names
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
Libya
Meaning:
the heart of the sea; fat
Indexed occurrences: 0
Source: Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · View data sources
Sources
- Nave’s Topical Bible — Public domain
- Hitchcock’s Bible Names Dictionary (1869)
- Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
- A Biblical and Theological Dictionary
- concordance
- STEPBible TBESG (based primarily on Abbott-Smith)
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