Καισάρεια Kaisareia

Greek word for “Caesarea” · Strong’s G2542 · used 17 times in 17 verses

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Meaning

Καισαρία (Rec. -άρεια), -ας, ἡ;

Senses in the lexicon

• Caesarea (15)
• Caesarea (2)

How it is translated

Glosses given for Kaisareia in context, with how often each is used:

• caesarea 17

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Acts 25 (4), Acts 10 (2), Acts 21 (2), Acts 23 (2), Matthew 16 (1), Mark 8 (1), Acts 8 (1), Acts 9 (1), Acts 11 (1), Acts 12 (1)

Forms

• Καισάρειαν 10
• Καισαρείας 6
• Καισαρείᾳ 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with Kaisareia more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• Φίλιππος Philippos “Philip” 4
• Φῆστος Phēstos “Festus” 3
• ἐπαύριον epaurion “the next day” 3
• Κορνήλιος Kornēlios “Cornelius” 2
• διατρίβω diatribō “to remain” 2
• κατέρχομαι katerchomai “to descend” 2
• ἑκατόνταρχος hekatontarchos “centurion” 2
• Παῦλος Paulos “Paul” 3
• κελεύω keleuō “to order” 2
• εἰσέρχομαι eiserchomai “to enter” 3
• μαθητής mathētēs “disciple” 3
• ἀσπάζομαι aspazomai “to pay respects to” 2

Key verses

The verses using Kaisareia that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Matthew 16:13 — When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am?
• Acts 8:40 — But Philip was found at Azotus: and passing through he preached in all the cities, till he came to Cæsarea.
• Acts 9:30 — Which when the brethren knew, they brought him down to Cæsarea, and sent him forth to Tarsus.
• Acts 10:1 — There was a certain man in Cæsarea called Cornelius, a centurion of the band called the Italian band,
• Acts 10:24 — And the morrow after they entered into Cæsarea. And Cornelius waited for them, and had called together his kinsmen and near friends.
• Acts 12:19 — And when Herod had sought for him, and found him not, he examined the keepers, and commanded that they should be put to death. And he went down from Judæa to…
• Acts 18:22 — And when he had landed at Cæsarea, and gone up, and saluted the church, he went down to Antioch.
• Acts 21:8 — And the next day we that were of Paul’s company departed, and came unto Cæsarea: and we entered into the house of Philip the evangelist, which was one of the…
• Acts 21:16 — There went with us also certain of the disciples of Cæsarea, and brought with them one Mnason of Cyprus, an old disciple, with whom we should lodge.
• Acts 23:23 — And he called unto him two centurions, saying, Make ready two hundred soldiers to go to Cæsarea, and horsemen threescore and ten, and spearmen two hundred, at…
• Acts 25:1 — Now when Festus was come into the province, after three days he ascended from Cæsarea to Jerusalem.
• Acts 25:13 — And after certain days king Agrippa and Bernice came unto Cæsarea to salute Festus.

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.