Word Summary
Hierapolis: Hierapolis, a city in Asia
Original Word: ἹεράπολιςTransliteration: Hierapolis
Phonetic Spelling: (hee-er-ap'-ol-is)
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Short Definition: Hierapolis, a city in Asia
Meaning: Hierapolis -- a city in Asia
Strong's Concordance
Hierapolis.
From hieros and polis; holy city; Hierapolis, a place in Asia Minor -- Hierapolis.
see GREEK hieros
see GREEK polis
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 2404: ἹεράπολιςἹεράπολις (
WH ἱερά Πόλις; cf.
Buttmann, 74;
Lob. ad Phryn. 604f),
ἱερεαπολεως,
ἡ,
Hierapolis, a city of Greater Phrygia, near the river Maeander (or rather, near the Lycus a few miles above its junction with the Maeander), not far from Colossae and Laodicea, now Pambuck Kulasi (for references see
Lightfoot on Col., p. 1f;
B. D. American edition, under the word):
Colossians 4:13.