Θυάτειρα
From LSJ
τὸ γὰρ μυστήριον ἤδη ἐνεργεῖται τῆς ἀνομίας· μόνον ὁ κατέχων ἄρτι ἕως ἐκ μέσου γένηται. (2Thess 2:7) → For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work — just at work until the one who is now constraining it is taken out.
English (Strong)
of uncertain derivation; Thyatira, a place in Asia Minor: Thyatira.
English (Thayer)
Θυατείρων, τά (and once Θυατειρας, ἡ, Θυατειραν (cf. Tdf. at the passage; WH s Appendix, p. 156; Buttmann, 18 (16))), Thyatira, a city of Lydia, formerly Pelopia and Euhippia (Pliny, h. n. 5,31), now Akhissar, a colony of Macedonian Greeks, situated between Sardis and Pergamum on the river Lycus; its inhabitants gained their living by traffic and the art of dyeing in purple: B. D. under the word.)
