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Kurénios <a href="../greek/2959.htm" title="2959">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Strong's Lexicon</div><div align="left"><span class="toptitle2">Kurénios: Quirinius</span></div><p><span class="tophdg">Original Word: </span><span class="greek">Κυρήνιος</span><br><span class="tophdg">Part of Speech: </span>Noun, Masculine<br><span class="tophdg">Transliteration: </span>Kurénios<br><span class="tophdg">Pronunciation: </span>koo-RAY-nee-os<br><span class="tophdg">Phonetic Spelling: </span>(koo-ray'-nee-os)<br><span class="tophdg">Definition: </span>Quirinius<br><span class="tophdg">Meaning: </span>Cyrenius or Quirinius, governor of Syria.<p><span class="tophdg">Word Origin: </span>Derived from the Greek name Κυρήνη (Kyrēnē), referring to Cyrene, a city in North Africa.<p><span class="tophdg">Corresponding Greek / Hebrew Entries: </span>There are no direct Hebrew equivalents for the Greek name Kurénios, as it refers specifically to a Roman official.<p><span class="tophdg">Usage: </span>Kurénios refers to Publius Sulpicius Quirinius, a Roman official who is mentioned in the context of a census in the New Testament. His name appears in the Gospel of Luke, where he is identified as the governor of Syria during the time of Jesus' birth.<p><span class="tophdg">Cultural and Historical Background: </span>Quirinius was a Roman aristocrat and military leader who served as the governor of the Roman province of Syria. His administration is noted for conducting a census, which was a common practice in the Roman Empire for taxation and administrative purposes. The mention of Quirinius in the Gospel of Luke provides a historical anchor for the nativity narrative, situating the birth of Jesus within the broader context of Roman governance.<div class="vheading2">NAS Exhaustive Concordance</div><span class="hdg">Word Origin</span><br>of Latin origin<br><span class="hdg">Definition</span><br>Quirinius, a governor of Syria<br><span class="hdg">NASB Translation</span><br>Quirinius (1).<p><div align="center"><span class="smalltext"><iframe width="100%" height="85" scrolling=no src="/nasec.htm" frameborder=0 cellpadding=0></iframe></span></div><div class="vheading2">Thayer's Greek Lexicon</div><span class="maintitle">STRONGS NT 2958: Κυρήνιος</span><br><br><span class="arttitle"><span class="grktitle">Κυρήνιος</span></span> (Lachmann <span class="greek2">Κυρινος</span> (<span class="greek2">Κυρεῖνος</span> <span class="manuref">Tr</span> marginal reading <span class="manuref">WH</span> marginal reading (see <span class="greek2"><span class="lexref">εἰ</span></span>, <span class="greek2">ἰ</span>))), <span class="greek2">Κυρηνίου</span>, <span class="greek2">ὁ</span>, <span class="accented">Quirin(-i)us</span> (in full, Publius Sulpicius Quirinus (correctly Quirinius; see Woolsey in Bib. Sacr. for 1878, pp. 499-513)), a Roman consul A. U. C. 742; afterward (not before the year 759) governor of Syria (where perhaps he may previously have been in command, 751-752). While filling that office after Archelaus had been banished and Judaea had been reduced to a province of Syria, he made the enrolment mentioned in <a href="/interlinear/acts/5-37.htm">Acts 5:37</a> (cf. <span class="abbreviation">Josephus</span>, Antiquities 18, 1, 1). Therefore Luke in his Gospel 2:2 has made a mistake (yet see added references below) in defining the time of this enrolment. For in the last years of Herod the Great, not Quirinius but Sentius Saturninus was governor of Syria. His successor, A. U. C. 750, was Quintilius Varus; and Quirinius (who died in the year 774) succeeded Varus. Cf. <span class="abbreviation">Winer</span>s RWB, see under the words, Quirinins and Schatzung; Strauss, Die Halben u. die Ganzen (Berl. 1865), p. 70ff; Hilgenfeld in the Zeitschr. f. wissensch. Theologie for 1865, p. 480ff; <span class="abbreviation">Keim</span>, i., 399f (English translation, ii. 115); <span class="abbreviation">Schürer</span>, Neutest. Zeitgeschichte, p. 161f; Weizsäicker in <span class="abbreviation">Schenkel</span> see p. 23ff; (Keil, Comm. üb. Mark. u. Luk., p. 213ff; McClellan, New Testament etc., i., p. 392ff; and Woolsey in <span class="abbreviation">B. D.</span> American edition, under the word <REFERENCE_WORK:Smith's Bible Dictionary><TOPIC:Cyrenius>, and at length in Bib. Sacr. for Apr. 1870, p. 291ff).<FOOTNOTE:1> <br><br><iframe width="100%" height="85" scrolling=no src="/bsoft.htm" frameborder=0 cellpadding=0></iframe><div class="vheading2">Strong's Exhaustive Concordance</div>Cyrenius. <p>Of Latin origin; Cyrenius (i.e. Quirinus), a Roman -- Cyrenius. <div class="vheading2">Forms and Transliterations</div>Κυρηνιου Κυρηνίου Kureniou Kurēniou Kyreniou Kyreníou Kyrēniou Kyrēníou<div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/interlinear/matthew/1-1.htm">Interlinear Greek</a> • <a href="/interlinear/genesis/1-1.htm">Interlinear Hebrew</a> • <a href="/strongs.htm">Strong's Numbers</a> • <a href="/englishmans_greek.htm">Englishman's Greek Concordance</a> • <a href="/englishmans_hebrew.htm">Englishman's Hebrew Concordance</a> • <a href="/texts/matthew/1-1.htm">Parallel Texts</a></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheading">Englishman's Concordance</div><b><a href="/text/luke/2-2.htm" title="Biblos Lexicon">Luke 2:2</a> <a href="/abbrev.htm" title="Noun - Genitive Masculine Singular">N-GMS</a></b><br><a href="/interlinear/luke/2.htm" title="Greek">GRK:</a> <span class="greek3">τῆς Συρίας <b>Κυρηνίου</b> </span><br><a href="http://biblehub.com/nas/luke/2.htm" title="New American Standard Bible">NAS:</a> taken <span class="itali">while Quirinius</span> was governor<br><a href="/kjvs/luke/2.htm" title="King James Bible with Strong's">KJV:</a> made <span class="itali">when Cyrenius</span> was governor<br><a href="/interlinear/luke/2-2.htm" title="Biblos Interlinear Bible">INT:</a> of Syria <span class="itali">Cyrenius</span><p><b><a href="/greek/2958.htm">Strong's Greek 2958</a><br><a href="/greek/strongs_2958.htm">1 Occurrence</a></b><br><br><a href="/greek/kure_niou_2958.htm">Κυρηνίου — 1 Occ.</a><br><br></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script><br /><br /> </div> <div id="left"><a href="/greek/2957.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="2957"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="2957" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/greek/2959.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="2959"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="2959" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchap.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>