first letter of Greek alphabet

Christ is the Alpha to indicate that he is the beginning and the end

Asia = "orient"

1. Asia proper or proconsular Asia embracing Mysia, Lydia, Phrygia, and Caria, corresponding closely to Turkey today

a small book, a scroll, a written document

a sheet on which something has been written

1. a bill of divorcement

to see, discern, of the bodily eye

1. with the bodily eye: to be possessed of sight, have the power of seeing

2. perceive by the use of the eyes: to see, look descry

3. to turn the eyes to anything: to look at, look upon, gaze at

4. to perceive by the senses, to feel

5. to discover by use, to know by experience

metaph. to see with the mind's eye

1. to have (the power of) understanding

2. to discern mentally, observe, perceive, discover, understand

3. to turn the thoughts or direct the mind to a thing, to consider, contemplate, to look at, to weigh carefully, examine

in a geographical sense of places, mountains, buildings, etc. turning towards any quarter, as it were, facing it

to write, with reference to the form of the letters

1. to delineate (or form) letters on a tablet, parchment, paper, or other material

to write, with reference to the contents of the writing

1. to express in written characters

2. to commit to writing (things not to be forgotten), write down, record

3. used of those things which stand written in the sacred books (of the OT)

4. to write to one, i.e. by writing (in a written epistle) to give information, directions

to fill with writing

to draw up in writing, compose

I, me, my

to be, to exist, to happen, to be present

into, unto, to, towards, for, among

a gathering of citizens called out from their homes into some public place, an assembly

1. an assembly of the people convened at the public place of the council for the purpose of deliberating

2. the assembly of the Israelites

3. any gathering or throng of men assembled by chance, tumultuously

4. in a Christian sense

   1. an assembly of Christians gathered for worship in a religious meeting

   2. a company of Christian, or of those who, hoping for eternal salvation through Jesus Christ, observe their own religious rites, hold their own religious meetings, and manage their own affairs, according to regulations prescribed for the body for order's sake

   3. those who anywhere, in a city, village, constitute such a company and are united into one body

   4. the whole body of Christians scattered throughout the earth

   5. the assembly of faithful Christians already dead and received into heaven

in, by, with etc.

seven

extreme

1. last in time or in place

2. last in a series of places

3. last in a temporal succession

the last

1. last, referring to time

2. of space, the uttermost part, the end, of the earth

3. of rank, grade of worth, last i.e. lowest

Ephesus = "permitted"

1. a maritime city of Asia Minor, capital of Ionia and under the Romans, of proconsular Asia, situated on the Icarian Sea between Smyrna and Miletus

Thyatira = "odour of affliction"

1. a colony of Macedonia Greeks, situated between Sardis and Pergamos on the river Lycus; its inhabitants gained their living by traffic and the art of dyeing in purple

and, also, even, indeed, but

Laodicea = "justice of the people"

1. a city of Phrygia, situated on the river Lycus not far from Colosse. It was destroyed by an earthquake in 66 A.D. and rebuilt by Marcus Aurelius. It was the seat of the Christian church.

to say, to speak

1. affirm over, maintain

2. to teach

3. to exhort, advise, to command, direct

4. to point out with words, intend, mean, mean to say

5. to call by name, to call, name

6. to speak out, speak of, mention

this, that, these, etc. Only significant renderings other than "the" counted

who, which, what, that

to send

1. to bid a thing to be carried to one

2. to send (thrust or insert) a thing into another

Pergamos = "height or elevation"

1. a city of Mysia Minor, in Asia Minor, the seat of the dynasties of Attalus and Eumenes, famous for its temple of Aesculapius and the invention and manufacture of parchment. The river Selinus flowed through it and the Cetius ran past it. It was the birthplace of the physician Galen, and had a great royal library. It had a Christian church.

first in time or place

1. in any succession of things or persons

first in rank

1. influence, honour

2. chief

3. principal

first, at the first

Sardis = "red ones"

1. a luxurious city in Asia Minor, the capital of Lydia

Smyrna = "myrrh"

1. an Ionian city of Asia Minor, on the Aegean Sea, 40 miles (65 km) north of Ephesus

Philadelphia = "brotherly love"

1. a city of Lydia in Asia Minor, situated near the eastern base of Mount Tmolus, founded and named by the Pergamene king, Attalus II Philadelphus. After the death of Attalus III Philometor, 133 BC, it together with his entire kingdom came by his will under the jurisdiction of the Romans.

the last letter in the Greek alphabet

the last