G4010
G4010 — Πέργαμος
Greek entry for Bible study and original-language reference.
Definition / Gloss
Pergamos (per'-gam-os) n/l.
1. fortified
2. Pergamus, a place in Asia Minor
[from G4444]
KJV: Pergamos
Root(s): G4444
TWOT
Not assigned in current lawful mapping.
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KJV Renderings
Pergamos
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Πέργαμος (perhaps Περγαμμον, τό (the gender in the N. T. is indeterminate; cf. Lob. ad Phryn., p. 421f; Pape, Eigennamen, see under the words)), Περγαμου, ἡ, Pergamus (or Pergamum (cf. Curtius, § 413)), a city of Mysia Major in Asia Minor, the seat of the dynasties of Attalus and Eumenes, celebrated for the temple of Aesculapius, and the invention ((?) cf. Gardthausen, Griech. Palaeogr., p. 39f; Birt, Antikes Buchwesen, chapter ii.) and manufacture of parchment. The river Selinus flowed through it and the Cetius ran past it (Strabo 13, p. 623; Pliny, 5, 30 (33); 13, 11 (21); Tacitus, ann. 3, 63). It was the birthplace of the physician Galen, and had a great royal library. Modern Berghama. There was a Christian church there: Rev 1:11; Rev 2:12.
Englishman's Greek Concordance
Πέργαμος (Pergamos)
Revelation 1:11
- KJV: Saying I am Alpha and Omega the first and the last and What thou seest write in a book and send unto the seven churches which are in Asia unto Ephesus and unto Smyrna and unto Pergamos and unto Thyatira and unto Sardis and unto Philadelphia and unto Laodicea
- GK: λεγούσης ο βλέπεις γράψον εις βιβλίον και πέμψον ταις επτά εκκλησίαις εις Εφεσον και εις Σμύρναν και εις Πέργαμον και εις Θυάτειρα και εις Σάρδεις και εις Φιλαδέλφειαν και εις Λαοδίκειαν
Revelation 2:12
- KJV: And to the angel of the church in Pergamos write These things saith he which hath the sharp sword with two edges
- GK: και τω αγγέλω της εν Περγάμω εκκλησίας γράψον τάδε λέγει ο έχων την ρομφαίαν την δίστομον την οξείαν