Lexical Summary
Salamis: Salamis
Original Word: Σαλαμίς
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Transliteration: Salamis
Pronunciation: sah-lah-MEES
Phonetic Spelling: (sal-am-ece')
KJV: Salamis
NASB: Salamis
Word Origin: [probably from G4535 (σάλος - waves) (from the surge on the shore)]
1. Salamis, a place in Cyprus
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
Salamis.
Probably from salos (from the surge on the shore); Salamis, a place in Cyprus -- Salamis.
see GREEK salos
NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Originperhaps akin to
salosDefinitionSalamis, the chief city of Cyprus
NASB TranslationSalamis (1).
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 4529: ΣαλαμίςΣαλαμίς (on its derivation, see
Pape, Eigennamen, under the word),
Σαλαμινος,
ἡ,
Salamis, the principal city of the island Cyprus:
Acts 13:5. (
BB. DD.; Dict. of Geog. under the word; Lewin, St. Paul, i., 120f.)