STRONGS NUMBER G2857

Apparently feminine plural of kolossos ("colossal"); Colossae, a place in Asia Minor -- Colosse.

STRONGS NT 2857: ΚολοσσαίΚολοσσαί (R T WH, the classical form), and Κολασσαί (Rst L Tr, apparently the later popular form; (see WH. Introductory § 423,and especially Lightfoots Commentary on Colossians, p. 16f); cf. Winers Grammar, p. 44; and on the plural Winer's Grammar, § 27, 3), Κολοσσων, αἱ, Colossae, anciently a large and flourishing city, but in Strabo's time a πόλισμα (i. e. small town (Lightfoot)) of Phrygia Major situated on the Lycus, not far from its junction with the Maeander, and in the neighborhood of Laodicea and Hierapolis (Herodotus 7, 30; Xenophon, an. 1, 2, 6; Strabo 12, 8, 13, p. 576; Pliny, h. n. 5, 41), together with which cities it was destroyed by an earthquake (about) A.D. 66 ((Eusebius, chron. Ol. 210); Orosius Paulus, 7, 7 (see especially Lightfoot as above, p. 38)): Colossians 1:2. (See the full description, with copious references, by Lightfoot as above, pp. 1-72.)