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G1354

Διονύσιος

Dionysios

Proper masculine noun · From Dionusos (Bacchus)

From Διόνυσος Diónysos (Bacchus); reveller; Dionysius, an Athenian:—Dionysius.

Outline

  1. Dionysius = "devoted to Bacchus"
    1. an Athenian, a member of the Areopagus, converted to Christianity by Paul

Usages

Acts 17:34

Howbeit certain men clave unto him, and believed: among the which was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.

Breakdown

Areopagite: from Greek Areios pagos ‘hill of Ares’.

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