Biblical Greek

greek #128 - Αἰθίοψ, οπος, ὁ Aithiops (Ethiopian)

Original Word:	Αἰθίοψ, οπος, ὁ
Transliteration:	Aithiops
Definition:	Ethiopian
Part of Speech:	Noun, Masculine
Phonetic Spelling:	(ahee-thee'-ops)
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

Ethiopian.

From aitho (to scorch) and ops (the face, from optanomai); an ?Thiopian (as a blackamoor) -- Ethiopian.

see GREEK optanomai

Thayer's Greek Lexicon

Strong's 128: Αἰθίοψ

Αἰθίοψ, (οπος, ὁ (αἴθω, to burn, and ὤψ (ὄψ), the face; swarthy), Ethiopian (Hebrew כּוּשִׁי): Acts 8:27, here the reference is to upper Ethiopia, called Habesh or Abyssinia, a country of Africa adjoining Egypt and including the island Meroe; (see Dillmann in Schenkel i. 285ff; Alex.'s Kitto or McClintock and Strong's Cyclopaedia under the word . Cf. Bib. Sacr. for 1866, p. 515).

Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Greek: 128. Αἰθίοψ (Aithiops) — 2 Occurrences

Acts 8:27 - N-NMS
GRK:ἰδοὺ ἀνὴρ Αἰθίοψ εὐνοῦχος δυνάστης
NAS: up and went; and there was an Ethiopian eunuch,
KJV: a man of Ethiopia, an eunuch
INT: Behold a man an Ethiopian a eunuch one in power

Acts 8:27 - N-GMP
GRK:Κανδάκης βασιλίσσης Αἰθιόπων ὃς ἦν
NAS: queen of the Ethiopians, who
KJV: queen of the Ethiopians, who
INT: [under] Candace queen of [the] Ethiopians who was

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