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Syrian

Boyd’s Bible Dictionary:

Inhabitant of Syria

(Gen. 25:20²⁰And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padan-aram, the sister to Laban the Syrian. (Genesis 25:20)), and elsewhere.

Strong’s Dictionary of Greek Words:

Number:

4948 (find all occurrences in KJV Bible)

Greek:

Σύρος

Transliteration:

Suros

Phonic:

soo’-ros

Meaning:

from the same as 4947; a Syran (i.e. probably Tyrian), a native of Syria

KJV Usage:

Syrian

Jackson’s Dictionary of Scripture Proper Names:

gentilic of Syria Syr’i ans, literally Edoinites : lofty ones (2 Chron. 22:5)