Lexical Summary
Pergamos: Pergamum or Pergamos
Original Word: Πέργαμος
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Transliteration: Pergamos
Pronunciation: PER-gah-mos
Phonetic Spelling: (per'-gam-os)
KJV: Pergamos
NASB: Pergamum
Word Origin: [from G4444 (πύργος - tower)]
1. fortified
2. Pergamus, a place in Asia Minor
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
Pergamum
From purgos; fortified; Pergamus, a place in Asia Minor -- Pergamos.
see GREEK purgos
NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Originfrom
purgosDefinitionPergamum, a city of Mysia
NASB TranslationPergamum (2).
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 4010: ΠέργαμοςΠέργαμος (perhaps
Περγαμμον,
τό (the gender in the N. T. is indeterminate; cf.
Lob. ad Phryn., p. 421f;
Pape, Eigennamen, see under the words)),
Περγαμου,
ἡ,
Pergamus (or
Pergamum (cf.
Curtius, § 413)), a city of Mysia Major in Asia Minor, the seat of the dynasties of Attalus and Eumenes, celebrated for the temple of Aesculapius, and the invention ((?) cf. Gardthausen, Griech. Palaeogr., p. 39f; Birt, Antikes Buchwesen, chapter ii.) and manufacture of parchment. The river Selinus flowed through it and the Cetius ran past it (
Strabo 13, p. 623;
Pliny, 5, 30 (33); 13, 11 (21);
Tacitus, ann. 3, 63). It was the birthplace of the physician
Galen, and had a great royal library. Modern Berghama. There was a Christian church there:
Revelation 1:11;
Revelation 2:12.