Ἔφεσος

English (LSJ)

ἡ, Ephesus, Hdt.1.142, etc.:—Adj. Ἐφέσιος, α, ον, γράμματα a

   A magic formula, Plu.2.706e, Eust.1864.16 (also Ἐφεσήϊα, γρ. Anaxil.18.7 (anap.)): Ἐφεσία, ἡ, = ἀριστολόχεια στρογγύλη, Ps.-Dsc. 3.4; = ἀρτεμισία, ib.113: Ἐφέσια, τά, festival of Artemis at Ephesus, Th.3.104 (also Ἐφέσεια, τά, OGI10.10): Ἐφεσηονίκης [ῑ], ὁ, victor in these games, Ephes.2.72 (iii A.D.): Ἐφεσίς, ίδος, ἡ, in pl., title of poem by Aeschrio, Sch.Lyc.688.

French (Bailly abrégé)

ου (ἡ) :
Éphèse, ville de Lydie.
Étymologie:.

English (Strong)

probably of foreign origin; Ephesus, a city of Asia Minor: Ephesus.

English (Thayer)

Ἐφέσου, ἡ, Ephesus, a maritime city of Asia Minor, capital of Ionia and, under the Romans of proconsular Asia (see Ἀσία), situated on the Icarian Sea between Smyrna and Miletus. Its chief splendor and renown came from the temple of Artemis, which was reckoned one of the wonders of the world. It was burned down 356 B.C.> by Herostratus, rebuilt at the common expense of Greece under the supervision of Deinocrates (Pausanias, 7,2, 6f; Livy 1,45; Pliny, h. n. 5,29 (31); 36,14 (21)), and in the middle of the third century after Christ utterly destroyed by the Goths. At Ephesus the apostle Paul founded a very flourishing church, to which great praise is awarded in ἐν Ἐφέσῳ is omitted by the Sinaiticus manuscript and other ancient authorities (bracketed by T WH Tr marginal reading; see WH s Appendix at the passage; B. D. American edition under the word Smith's Bible Dictionary, Ephesians , Epistle to the Ephesians , The Epistle to the)); G L T Tr WH) Revelation 2:1>. Cf. Zimmermann, Ephesus im 1. christl. Jahrh., Jena 1874; (Wood, Discoveries at Ephesus (1877)).