Κανδάκη, Κανδάκης, ἡ, Candace, a name common to the queens of a region of Ethiopia whose capital was Napata; just as the proper name Ptolemy was common to the Egyptian kings, and Henry to the Reuss princes (Strabo 17, 1, 54, p. 820; Pliny, h. n. 6, 35; Dio Cassius, 54, 5): Act_8:27; cf. Laurent, Die Königin Kandake, in the Zeitschr. f. d. luth. Theol. for 1862, p. 632ff (reprinted in his N. T. Studien, p. 140f; cf. especially B. D. American edition, under the word).

Κανδάκη Kandakē 1x Candace, pr. name, Act_8:27

Κανδάκη , -ης , ἡ , Candace: Act_8:27 .†

Κανδάκη [page 320] An interesting inscription belonging to B.C. 13 comes to us from the ancient Pselkis on the borders of Ethiopia in which an embassy on its homeward journey πρὸς ] τὴν κυρίαν βασίλισσαν records its adoration. Wilcken ( Hermes xxviii. (1893) p. 154 ff.) has shown good grounds for believing that in this βασίλισσα we are to see the famous Κανδάκη of Act_8:27 . The whole inscr. is in consequence worth recording here Ἀρποκρὰς ἥκω ἀναβαίνων μετὰ Ἐ [μάτου ] πρεσβευτοῦ καὶ Ταμίου γραμματέως [πρὸς ] τὴν κυρίαν βασίλισσαν καὶ τὸ προσ [κύνημα ] ἐπόησα ὧδε παρ [ὰ ] τῷ κυρίῳ Ἐρμ [ῇ θεῷ μεγίστῳ ] καὶ Ἐμάτου καὶ Ἀνθούσης καὶ [Ἀλε ]ξανδρήας , ἔτους ῑζ̄ Καί [σα ](ρος ) Μεχ [είρ ( Cagnat I. 1359). In itself the name Κανδάκη , like Ptolemy, was a dynastic title( quod nomen multis iam annis ad reginas transiit, Pliny H.N. vi. 35). See also Laurent NT Studien , p. 140 ff.

Κανδάκη, -ης, ἡ Candace: Act.8:27.† (AS)