Word Summary
Loukas: Luke, a Christian
Original Word: ΛουκᾶςTransliteration: Loukas
Phonetic Spelling: (loo-kas')
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Short Definition: Luke, a Christian
Meaning: Luke -- a Christian
Strong's Concordance
Lucas, Luke.
Contracted from Latin Lucanus; Lucas, a Christian -- Lucas, Luke.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 3065: ΛουκᾶςΛουκᾶς,
Λουκᾶ,
ὁ (contracted from
Λουκανος; (cf.
Lightfoot on
Colossians 4:14),
Winers Grammar, 103 (97) (cf.
Buttmann, 20 (18); on the diverse origin of contracted or abbrev. proper names in
ἅς cf. Lobeck, Patholog. Proleg., p. 506;
Lightfoot on
Colossians 4:15)),
Luke, a Christian of Gentile origin, the companion of the apostle Paul in preaching the gospel and on many of his journeys (
Acts 16:10-17;
Acts 20:5-15;
Acts 21:1-18;
Acts 28:10-16); he was a physician, and according to the tradition of the church from
Irenaeus (3, 14, 1f) down, which has been recently assailed with little success, the author of the third canonical Gospel and of the Acts of the Apostles:
Colossians 4:14;
2 Timothy 4:11;
Philemon 1:24.