Strong’s G1885 · Greek
ἐπαρχία
eparchía · ep-ar-khee'-ah
Origin from a compound of ἐπί (G1909) and ἄρχω (G757) (meaning a governor of a district, "eparch");
Meaning a special region of government, i.e. a Roman præfecture
In the King James Version province.
In 2 verses of the King James Version
- Acts 23:34And when the governor had read the letter, he asked of what province he was. And when he understood that he was of Cilicia;
- Acts 25:1Now when Festus was come into the province, after three days he ascended from Caesarea to Jerusalem.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.