Strong G5019Ταρσός

Tarsus

Transliteration
Tarsos
Pronunciation
tar-sos'
Morphology
Proper Name (Feminine) of a Location

Definition

Perhaps the same as ταρσός tarsos (a flat basket);
Tarsus a place in Asia Minor: - Tarsus.

Detailed definition

Ταρσός, -oῦ
Tarsus, a city of Cilicia: Act.9:30 11:25 22:3.†
(AS)

In the biblical story

Tarsus

City in Cilicia, birthplace of the apostle Paul

Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, known as the birthplace and early residence of the apostle Paul (Acts 9:11, 30; 21:39; 22:3).

In the Bible

Strong G5019 appears in 3 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • tarsus3

First verses

  1. Acts 9:30
    Which when the brethren knew, they brought him down to Cesarea, and sent him forth to Tarsus.
  2. Acts 11:25
    Then departed Barnabas to Tarsus, for to seek Saul:
  3. Acts 22:3
    I am verily a man which am a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers, and was zealous toward God, as ye all are this day.
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Detailed Greek dictionary
ταρσ-ός,
Attic dialect ταρρός, ὁ: also with irregular plural ταρσά, τά, [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (3rd c.AD: Oppianus Apamensis Epicus “Cynegetica” 3.470, “Anacreontea” 9, “APl.” 4.283 (6th c.AD: Leontius Epigrammaticus), 4th-5th c.AD(?): Nonnus Epicus “Dionysiaca” 1.270, +others)]: (τέρσομαι):— frame of wicker-work, crate, flat basket, for drying cheeses on, ταρσοὶ μὲν τυρῶν βρῖθον [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.219, cf. 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 11.37)]: generally, basket, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 226.)]
2 mat of reeds, such as were built into brickwork to bind it together, ταρσοὶ καλάμων [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.179, “SIG” 245 G 13 (Delph., 4th c.BC))]; τ. καλάμου [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.76.)]
3 mass of matted roots, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Causis Plantarum” 3.7.2.)]
II of various broad flat surfaces, resembling a ταρσός [Refs (1.1, as,)]
II.1 τ. ποδός flat of the foot. the part between the toes and the heel, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.377, 388, cf. 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.37, 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἀγμῶν” 9, 5th c.BC: Diogenes Apolloniates Philosophus 6)] (but also, palm of the hand, [Refs 1st c.AD+ ([prev. passage]); οὐλὴ ταρσῷ ἀριστερῷ “PMich.Teb.” 121r111 i3 (1st c.AD))]: generally, foot, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (Anacreont. 35.4, 3rd c.AD: Oppianus Apamensis Epicus “Cynegetica” 3.470, “Anthologia Graeca” 5.26 (2nd-3rd c.AD: Rufinus Epigrammaticus), 9.653 (6th c.AD: Agathias Historicus et Epigrammaticus).)]
II.1.b palm of the hand, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Rufus Medicus “περὶ ὀνομασίας” 81, 2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus “de signis fracturarum - Physici et Medici Graeci Minores” 22; see supr. 11.1a.)]
II.1.c ankle, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus “de Usu Partium” 3.6)]; but distinguished from σφυρόν, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus 1.84.)]
II.2 τοὺς τ. τῶν κωπέων the rows of oars on the sides of ships, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.12)]; so τοὺς τ. alone, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.40: _sing._, “IG” 22.1628.590, 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.50.3; ὁ δεξιὸς τ. τῆς νεώς [prev. author] 16.3.12)]: sing., oar, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 1346.)]
II.3 τ. πτερύγων flat of the outstretched wing, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (“Anthologia Graeca” 12.144 (1st c.BC: Meleager Epigrammaticus), cf. 2nd c.AD: Babrius Fabularum Scriptor 72.9; ὁ τ. τῶν πτερῶν 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “De Natura Animalium - Ar.Byzantine Epit.” 2.1)]: absolutely, wing, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (Anacreont. 9, “Anthologia Graeca” 9.287 (1st c.AD: Apollonides Epigrammaticus), etc.; in Prose, 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 4.63)]: of a peacock's tail, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Moschus Bucolicus 2.60)]; ταρσοί feathers, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 2.50.)]
II.4 τ. ὀδόντων the row of teeth in a saw, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Oppianus Anazarbensis Epicus “Halieutica - Poetae Bucolici et Didactici” 5.202.)]
II.5 Pan's pipe, ταρσῷ Πὰν ὁ μελιζόμενος [Refs (“epigram Gr.” 781.10 (from Cnidus).)]
II.6 edge of the eyelid and its lashes, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἐπιστολαί” 23, 2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 2.69, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus “de Usu Partium” 10.7.)]