King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER G128
Transliteration: Aithiops
Phonetic Spelling: (ahee-thee'-ops)
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Short Definition: Ethiopian
Meaning: Ethiopian
Αἰθίοψ, (οπος, ὁ (αἴθω, to burn, and ὤψ (ὄψ), the face; swarthy), Ethiopian (Hebrew כּוּשִׁי): Acts 8:27, here the reference is to upper Ethiopia, called Habesh or Abyssinia, a country of Africa adjoining Egypt and including the island Meroe; (see Dillmann in Schenkel i. 285ff; Alex.'s Kitto or McClintock and Strong's Cyclopaedia under the word. Cf. Bib. Sacr. for 1866, p. 515).
Word Summary
Aithiops: Ethiopian
Original Word: ΑἰθίοψTransliteration: Aithiops
Phonetic Spelling: (ahee-thee'-ops)
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Short Definition: Ethiopian
Meaning: Ethiopian
Strong's Concordance
Ethiopian. From aitho (to scorch) and ops (the face, from optanomai); an ?Thiopian (as a blackamoor) -- Ethiopian.
see GREEK optanomai
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 128: ΑἰθίοψΑἰθίοψ, (οπος, ὁ (αἴθω, to burn, and ὤψ (ὄψ), the face; swarthy), Ethiopian (Hebrew כּוּשִׁי): Acts 8:27, here the reference is to upper Ethiopia, called Habesh or Abyssinia, a country of Africa adjoining Egypt and including the island Meroe; (see Dillmann in Schenkel i. 285ff; Alex.'s Kitto or McClintock and Strong's Cyclopaedia under the word