King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER G789
Transliteration: Assos
Phonetic Spelling: (as'-sos)
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Short Definition: Assos, a city on the west coast of Asia Minor
Meaning: Assos -- a city on the west coast of Asia Minor
Ασσος (so all editions, perhaps better Ασσος; Chandler § 317, cf. § 319; Pape, Eigennamen under the word), Ἀσσου, ἡ, Assos, a maritime city in Asia Minor, on the Aegean Sea (Gulf of Adramyttium), and nine (according to Tab. Peuting. (edited by Fortin d'Urban, Paris 1845, p. 170) 20 to 25) miles (see Hackett on Acts as below) distant (to the south) from Troas, a city of Lesser Phrygia: Acts 20:13f; (formerly read also in Acts 27:13 after the Vulg.; cf. ἆσσον. See Papers of the Archaeol. Inst. of America, Classical Series i. (1882) especially, pp. 60ff).
Word Summary
Assos: Assos, a city on the west coast of Asia Minor
Original Word: ἌσσοςTransliteration: Assos
Phonetic Spelling: (as'-sos)
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Short Definition: Assos, a city on the west coast of Asia Minor
Meaning: Assos -- a city on the west coast of Asia Minor
Strong's Concordance
Assos. Probably of foreign origin; Assus, a city of Asia minor -- Assos.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 789: ΑσσοςΑσσος (so all editions, perhaps better Ασσος; Chandler § 317, cf. § 319; Pape, Eigennamen under the word), Ἀσσου, ἡ, Assos, a maritime city in Asia Minor, on the Aegean Sea (Gulf of Adramyttium), and nine (according to Tab. Peuting. (edited by Fortin d'Urban, Paris 1845, p. 170) 20 to 25) miles (see Hackett on Acts as below) distant (to the south) from Troas, a city of Lesser Phrygia: Acts 20:13f; (formerly read also in Acts 27:13 after the Vulg.; cf. ἆσσον. See Papers of the Archaeol. Inst. of America, Classical Series i. (1882) especially, pp. 60ff).