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Λούκιος

Lucius

Thayer's lists 2 entries for ‘Lucius’ fuller range ↓

G3066 Strong's Greek
Loúkios Transliteration
/loo'-kee-os/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 2 appearances

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About this entry

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Λουκιος — transliterated Loúkios — is a Greek name carrying the sense “Lucius.” The Greek New Testament uses it only 2 verses. More than half of its appearances fall in Acts. Its earliest occurrence is Acts 13:1. See 2-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
Lucius
Modern gloss
Lucius
Strong's 1890 agrees
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About this word

Strong's G3066 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.

These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →

2
distinct verses
The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
2 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 2 of 27 New Testament books.
Acts 13:1
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Acts 13:1.
Romans 16:21
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Romans 16:21.
#2,678
by frequency
Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 2,678 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

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Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 0 · 0%
  • Acts 1 · 50%
  • Pauline Epistles 1 · 50%
  • General Epistles 0 · 0%
  • Revelation 0 · 0%

By traditional corpus

Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 2 distinct verses.

  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 50%
  • Pauline corpus 1 verse · 50%

How translations render this word

Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).

  • King James Version: Lucius 2×
  • American Standard Version: Lucius 2×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Lucius 2×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Lucius 2×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G3066 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Lucius” 2×

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G3066 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Lucius” 2×

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders G3066 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Lucius” 2×

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G3066 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Lucius” 2×

Senses in Thayer's

The 2 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.

  1. Lucius = "light: bright: white"
  2. a man from Cyrene who was a prophet and a teacher of the church in Antioch ( Acts 13:1 )

Word origin

Origin: of Latin origin

Part of speech: Noun Masculine

Of Latin origin; illuminative ; Lucius a Christian : - Lucius.

— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.


Bible dictionary

Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Lucius). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.

Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897

Of Cyrene, a Christian teacher at Antioch (Acts 13:1), and Paul's kinsman (Rom. 16:21). His name is Latin, but his birthplace seems to indicate that he was one of the Jews of Cyrene, in North Africa.

Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863

+ A kinsman or fellow tribesman of St. Paul, (Romans 16:21) by whom he is said by tradition to have been ordained bishop of the church of Cenchreae. He is thought by some to be the same with Lucius of Cyrene. + Lucius of Cyrene is first mentioned in the New Testament in company with Barnabas, Simeon called Niger, Manaen and Saul, who are described as prophets and teachers of the church at Antioch. (Acts 13:1) Whether Lucius was one of the seventy disciples is quite a matter of conjecture; but it is highly probable that he formed one of the congregation to whom St. Peter preached on the day of Pentecost, (Acts 2:10) and there can hardly be a doubt that he was one of "the men of Cyrene" who, being "scattered abroad upon the persecution that arose about Stephen," went to Antioch preaching the Lord Jesus. (Acts 11:19,20)

Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.

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