Ἱεράπολις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἱερός (hierós, “holy”) +‎ πόλις (pólis, “city”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /hi.e.rǎː.po.lis/ → /i.eˈra.po.lis/ → /i.eˈra.po.lis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /hi.e.rǎː.po.lis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /(h)i.eˈra.po.lis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /i.eˈra.po.lis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /i.eˈra.po.lis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /i.eˈra.po.lis/

Proper noun

Ἱερᾱ́πολις • (Hierā́polis) f (genitive Ἱερᾱπόλεως); third declension

1. Hierapolis, a city in Anatolia.

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ Ῐ̔ερᾱ́πολῐς; τῆς Ῐ̔ερᾱπόλεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ Ῐ̔ερᾱ́πολῐς hē Hierā́polis
Genitive	τῆς Ῐ̔ερᾱπόλεως tês Hierāpóleōs
Dative	τῇ Ῐ̔ερᾱπόλει têi Hierāpólei
Accusative	τὴν Ῐ̔ερᾱ́πολῐν tḕn Hierā́polin
Vocative	Ῐ̔ερᾱ́πολῐ Hierā́poli
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• Ἱερᾱπολίτης (Hierāpolítēs)

Descendants

• Greek: Ιεράπολη (Ierápoli)

References

• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• G2404 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Nestle, Eberhard, Aland, Kurt with et al. (2012) Novum Testamentum Graece‎^[1], 28th revised edition, 4th corrected printing edition, Stuttgart: Stuttgart Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, →ISBN