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Κυρήνιος, ου, ὁ n.m. Quirinius
Strong's Definition
of Latin origin; Cyrenius (i.e. Quirinus), a Roman
KJV Usage: Cyrenius
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
noun-name, m. | -ου
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Κυρήνιος (Lchm. Kupivos [-peivos Tr mrg. WH mrg. (see et, «)]), του, 6, Quirin[-i-Jus (in full, Publius Sulpicius Quirinus [correctly Quirinius ; see Woolsey in Bib. Sacr. for 1878, pp. 499-513]), a Roman consul A. vu. c. 742; afterwards (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 Judea had been reduced to a province of Syria, he made the enrolment mentioned in Acts v. 37 (cf. Joseph. antt. 18, 1,1). Therefore Luke in his Gospel ii. 2 has made a mistake [yet see added reff. 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) sueceeded Varus. Cf. Win. RWB. s. vv. Quirinius and Schatzung; Strauss, Die Halben u. die Ganzen (Berl. 1865) p. 70 sqq.; Hilgenfeld in the Zeitschr. f. wissensch. Theologie for 1865, Ὁ. 480 sqq-; Keim i. 399 sq. [Eng. trans. ii. 115]; Schiirer, Neutest. Zeitgeschichte, p. 161 sq.; Weizsicker in Schenkel v. p. 23 sqq.; [Aei/l, Com. iib. Mark. u. Luk. p. 213 sqq-; McClellan, New Testament ete., i. p. 392 sqq.; and Woolsey in B. D. Am. ed. s. v. Cyrenius, and at length in Bib. Saer. for Apr. 1870, p. 291 sqq.].
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
Κυρήνιος Kyrēnios 1x
Cyrenius (perhaps Quirinus) pr. name, the governor of Syria, Lk. 2:2*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
Κυρήνιος
(prop. -ίνιος, v. Bl., 13; -ῖνος L, -εῖνος, Tr., WH, mg.), -ου, ὁ,
Quirinus, prop. Quirinius: Lk 2:2.†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
Κυρήνιος. Upon the different forms of this proper name in the MSS. of Lk 25, see Robertson Gr. p. 192, and for the bearing of certain recently discovered inserr. on Quirinius’ Governorship of Syria, and the date of the Nativity (now to be placed in all probability in B.c. 8), see W. M. Ramsay Recent Discovery, pp. 222-300, Journal of Roman Studies vii. p. 273 ff. There is also a convenient summary of the new evidence by W. M. Calder in Discovery i. (1920), p. 100 ff.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
Κυρήνιος (Kurēnios) — Quirinius. Κυρήνιος (prop. -ίνιος, see Bl., 13; -ῖνος L, -εῖνος, Tr., WH, mg.), -ου, ὁ, Quirinus, prop. Quirinius: Luk.2:2.† (From Abbott-Smith. LSJ has no entry)