Original: Κυρήνη

Transliteration: Kyrḗnē

Phonetic: koo-ray'-nay

Short Definition: Cyrene

- Original: Κυρήνη

- Transliteration: Kurene

- Phonetic: koo-ray'-nay

- Definition: Cyrene = "supremacy of the bridle"

1. a large and very flourishing city of Libya Cyrenaica or Pentapolitana, about 11 miles (17 km) from the sea. Among its inhabitants were a great number of Jews, whom Ptolemy I. had brought there, and invested with the right of citizens

- Origin: of uncertain derivation

- TDNT entry: None

- Part(s) of speech: Noun Location

- Strong's: Of uncertain derivation; Cyrene a region of Africa: - Cyrene.