Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)
Mesopotamia
Usage: Μεσοποταμία, -ας, ἡ (sc. χώρα) Mesopotamia: Act.2:9 7:2.† (AS)
Mesopotamia - meaning, definition, and linked Bible usage across the indexed canon, including Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where this Strong's number appears.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H3318 — yatsa (“out”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G3318 Μεσοποταμία (Mesopotamia) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. Mesopotamia (mes-op-ot-am-ee'-ah) n/l. 1. Mesopotamia (as lying between the Euphrates and the Tigris), a region of Asia [from G3319 and G4215] It has 23 linked Bible usages across 7 books. Visible English usage signals include mesopotamia. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
Mesopotamia (mes-op-ot-am-ee'-ah) n/l. 1. Mesopotamia (as lying between the Euphrates and the Tigris), a region of Asia [from G3319 and G4215] KJV: Mesopotamia Root(s): G3319, G4215 Compare: H763
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Mesopotamia
Usage: Μεσοποταμία, -ας, ἡ (sc. χώρα) Mesopotamia: Act.2:9 7:2.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render Mesopotamia, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and New Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G3318 (Μεσοποταμία) appears 21 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
2 indexed usages in New Testament.
17 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And the servant took ten camels of his master’s camels, and he took of all the goods of his master with him, and he arose and went into Mesopotamia to the city of Nahor.
Abraham begot Isaac. And Isaac was forty years old when he took to wife Rebekah, daughter of Bethuel the Syrian, out of Syrian Mesopotamia, sister of Laban the Syrian.
Now then, my son, hear my voice, and rise and depart quickly into Mesopotamia to Laban my brother into Haran.
4 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
Then he went over Euphrates, and went through Mesopotamia, and destroyed all the high cities that were upon the river Abron, till ye come to the sea.
and they sojourned heretofore in Mesopotamia, because they would not follow the gods of their fathers, which were in the land of Chaldea.
For they left the way of their ancestors, and worshiped the God of heaven, the God whom they knew: so they cast them out from the face of their gods, and they fled into Mesopotamia, and sojourned there many days.
First 23 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G3318.
And the servant took ten camels of his master’s camels, and he took of all the goods of his master with him, and he arose and went into Mesopotamia to the city of Nahor.
Abraham begot Isaac. And Isaac was forty years old when he took to wife Rebekah, daughter of Bethuel the Syrian, out of Syrian Mesopotamia, sister of Laban the Syrian.
Now then, my son, hear my voice, and rise and depart quickly into Mesopotamia to Laban my brother into Haran.
Rise and depart quickly into Mesopotamia, to the house of Bethuel the father of thy mother, and take to thyself thence a wife of the daughters of Laban thy mother’s brother.
So Isaac sent away Jacob, and he went into Mesopotamia to Laban the son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah the mother of Jacob and Esau.
And Esau saw that Isaac blessed Jacob, and sent him away to Mesopotamia of Syria as he blessed him, to take to himself a wife thence, and that he charged him, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of the Canaanites;
and that Jacob hearkened to his father and his mother, and went to Mesopotamia of Syria.
and he took away all his possessions and all his store, which he had gotten in Mesopotamia, and all that belonged to him, to depart to Isaac his father in the land of Canaan.
And Jacob came to Salem, a city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he departed out of Mesopotamia of Syria, and took up a position in front of the city.
And God appeared to Jacob once more in Luz, when he came out of Mesopotamia of Syria, and God blessed him.
And the sons of Zilpah, the handmaid of Leah; Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob, which were born to him in Mesopotamia of Syria.
These are the sons of Leah, which she bore to Jacob in Mesopotamia of Syria, and Dinah his daughter; all the souls, sons and daughters, thirty-three.
And as for me, when I came out of Mesopotamia of Syria, Rachel, thy mother, died in the land of Canaan, as I drew nigh to the horse course of Chabratha of the land of Canaan, so as to come to Ephrath; and I buried her in the road of the course; this is Bethlehem.
And he took up his parable, and said, Balak king of Moab sent for me out of Mesopotamia, Out of the mountains of the east, saying, Come, curse me Jacob, And Come, call for a curse for me upon Israel.
because they met you not with bread and water by the way, when ye went out of Egypt; and because they hired against thee Balaam the son of Beor of Mesopotamia to curse thee.
And the children of Ammon saw that the people of David were ashamed, and Hanun and the children of Ammon sent a thousand talents of silver to hire for themselves chariots and horsemen out of Syria of Mesopotamia, and out of Syria Maacah, and from Zobah.
when he had burned Mesopotamia of Syria, and Syria Zobah, and Joab had returned and smitten in the Valley of Salt twelve thousand.
Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judaea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia,
And he said, Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken; The God of glory appeared unto our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charran,
Then he went over Euphrates, and went through Mesopotamia, and destroyed all the high cities that were upon the river Abron, till ye come to the sea.
and they sojourned heretofore in Mesopotamia, because they would not follow the gods of their fathers, which were in the land of Chaldea.
For they left the way of their ancestors, and worshiped the God of heaven, the God whom they knew: so they cast them out from the face of their gods, and they fled into Mesopotamia, and sojourned there many days.
Remember what things he did to Abraham, and how he tried Isaac, and what happened to Jacob in Mesopotamia of Syria, when he kept the sheep of Laban his mother’s brother.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G3318, grouped by book.
Mesopotamia (Strong's G3318) is a Greek word most simply glossed "Mesopotamia". Mesopotamia (mes-op-ot-am-ee'-ah) n/l. 1. Mesopotamia (as lying between the Euphrates and the Tigris), a region of Asia [from G3319 and G4215]
This page currently indexes 23 linked usages for Strong's G3318 across 7 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G3318 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as mesopotamia. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 17 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 4 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G3318, with linked reader references where each row is available.