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Ἐμμαούς
Emmaous
G1695
N:N-F-L Greek

Emmaus

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Emmaous is the named village to which two people were traveling from Jerusalem.

The attested use identifies a village as the destination of two travelers departing from Jerusalem.

Senses in use

  1. A village named as a travel destination · dominant

    In Luke 24:13, the nominative singular feminine form occurs in the clause identifying the village to which two people were going; the APB renders the verse as travel to “a village sixty stadia away from Jerusalem, which has the name Emmaus.”

In the Anselm Project Bible: In Luke 24:13, the APB presents the term as the name of the village; its rendering is read from the verse as a whole rather than from word alignment.

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