Μεσοποταμία

The 2 distinct written forms G3318 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form	Parsing	Example	Uses
Μεσοποταμίαν Mesopotamían	Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine	Acts 2:9	1
Μεσοποταμίᾳ Mesopotamía	Noun, Dative, Singular, Feminine	Acts 7:2	1

Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G3318, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.

Derives from

• μεσος mésos G3319 middle

Shares the same root

• μεσημβρια mesēmbría G3314 noon
• μεσιτης mesítēs G3316 mediator
• μεσονυκτιον mesonýktion G3317 midnight
• μεσοτοιχον mesótoichon G3320 partition wall
• μεσουρανημα mesouránēma G3321 mid-heaven
• μεσοω mesóō G3322 to be midway

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Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Mesopotamia). 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

The country between the two rivers (Heb. Aram-naharaim; i.e., "Syria of the two rivers"), the name given by the Greeks and Romans to the region between the Euphrates and the Tigris (Gen. 24:10; Deut. 23:4; Judg. 3:8, 10). In the Old Testament it is mentioned also under the name "Padan-aram;" i.e., the plain of Aram, or Syria (Gen. 25:20). The northern portion of this fertile plateau was the original home of the ancestors of the Hebrews (Gen. 11; Acts 7:2). From this region Isaac obtained his wife Rebecca (Gen. 24:10, 15), and here also Jacob sojourned (28:2-7) and obtained his wives, and here most of his sons were born (35:26; 46:15). The petty, independent tribes of this region, each under its own prince, were warlike, and used chariots in battle. They maintained their independence till after the time of David, when they fell under the dominion of Assyria, and were absorbed into the empire (2 Kings 19:13).

Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863

(between the rivers), the entire country between the two rivers, the Tigris and the Euphrates. This is a tract nearly 700 miles long and from 20 to 250 miles broad, extending in a southeasterly direction from Telek to Kurnah . The Arabian geographers term it "the Island," a name which is almost literally correct, since a few miles only intervene between the source of the Tigris and the Euphrates at Telek . But the region which bears the name of Mesopotamia, par excellence, both in Scripture and in the classical writers, is the northwestern portion of this tract, or the country between the great bend of the Euphrates, lat. 35 degrees to 37 degrees 30', and the upper Tigris. We first hear of Mesopotamia in Scripture as the country where Nahor and his family settled after quitting Ur of the Chaldees. (Genesis 24:10) Here lived Bethuel and Laban; and hither Abraham sent his servants to fetch Isaac a wife. Ibid. ver. 38. Hither too, a century later, came Jacob on the same errand; and hence he returned with his two wives after an absence of twenty-one years. After this we have no mention of Mesopotamia till the close of the wanderings int he wilderness. (23:4) About half a century later we find, for the first and last time, Mesopotamia the seat of a powerful monarchy. (Judges 3:1) ... Finally, the children of Ammon, having provoked a war with David, "sent a thousand talents of silver to hire them chariots and horsemen out of Mesopotamia, and out of Syria-maachah, and out of Zobah." (1 Chronicles 19:6) According to the Assyrian inscriptions Mesopotamia was inhabited in the early times of the empire, B.C. 1200-1100, by a vast number of petty tribes, each under its own prince, and all quite independent of one another. The Assyrian monarchs contended with these chiefs at great advantage, and by the time of Jehu, B.C. 880, had fully established their dominion over them. On the destruction of the Assyrian empire, Mesopotamia seems to have been divided between the Medes and the Babylonians. The conquests of Cyrus brought it wholly under the Persian yoke; and thus it continued to the time of Alexander. Since 1516 it has formed a part of the Turkish empire. It is full of ruins and mounds of ancient cities, some of which are now throwing much light on the Scripture.

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869

between two rivers

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The same Greek word Μεσοποταμια appears 17 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 17 verses in 5 books.

17

LXX occurrences

Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.

17

verses

Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.

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OT books

The word appears in 5 of the 39 Old Testament books.

Sample Septuagint occurrences

• Genesis 24:10 μεσοποταμία
• Numbers 23:7 μεσοποταμία
• Deuteronomy 23:5 μεσοποταμία
• 1 Chronicles 19:6 μεσοποταμία
• Psalms 59:2 μεσοποταμία

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3318) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.

• Genesis 24:10 μεσοποταμία The servant took ten camels, of his master's camels, and departed, having all goodly things of his master's in his hand. He arose, and went to Mesopotamia, to the city of Nahor.
• Genesis 25:20 μεσοποταμία Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Paddan Aram, the sister of Laban the Syrian, to be his wife.
• Genesis 27:43 μεσοποταμία Now therefore, my son, obey my voice. Arise, flee to Laban, my brother, in Haran.
• Genesis 28:2 μεσοποταμία Arise, go to Paddan Aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother's father. Take a wife from there from the daughters of Laban, your mother's brother.
• Genesis 28:5 μεσοποταμία Isaac sent Jacob away. He went to Paddan Aram to Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, Rebekah's brother, Jacob's and Esau's mother.
• Genesis 28:6 μεσοποταμία Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan Aram, to take him a wife from there, and that as he blessed him he gave him a charge, saying, "You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan,"
• Genesis 28:7 μεσοποταμία and that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Paddan Aram.
• Genesis 31:18 μεσοποταμία and he carried away all his cattle, and all his substance which he had gathered, the cattle of his getting, which he had gathered in Paddan Aram, to go to Isaac his father to the land of Canaan.
• Genesis 33:18 μεσοποταμία Jacob came in peace to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Paddan Aram; and encamped before the city.
• Genesis 35:9 μεσοποταμία God appeared to Jacob again, when he came from Paddan Aram, and blessed him.
• Genesis 35:26 μεσοποταμία The sons of Zilpah (Leah's handmaid): Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Paddan Aram.
• Genesis 46:15 μεσοποταμία These are the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Paddan Aram, with his daughter Dinah. All the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty-three.
• Genesis 48:7 μεσοποταμία As for me, when I came from Paddan, Rachel died by me in the land of Canaan in the way, when there was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and I buried her there in the way to Ephrath (the same is Bethlehem)."
• Numbers 23:7 μεσοποταμία He took up his parable, and said, From Aram has Balak brought me, The king of Moab from the mountains of the East: Come, curse me Jacob, Come, defy Israel.
• Deuteronomy 23:5 μεσοποταμία Nevertheless Yahweh your God wouldn't listen to Balaam; but Yahweh your God turned the curse into a blessing to you, because Yahweh your God loved you.
• 1 Chronicles 19:6 μεσοποταμία When the children of Ammon saw that they had made themselves odious to David, Hanun and the children of Ammon sent one thousand talents of silver to hire them chariots and horsemen out of Mesopotamia, and out of Arammaacah, and out of Zobah.
• Psalms 59:2 μεσοποταμία Deliver me from the workers of iniquity. Save me from the bloodthirsty men.

These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G3318) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.