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Aquila (Hebrew: עֲקִילַס ʿăqīlas, fl. 130 CE) of Sinope (modern-day Sinop, Turkey; Latin: Aquila Ponticus) was a translator of the Hebrew Bible into Greek, a proselyte, [clarification needed] and disciple of Rabbi Akiva.
Aquila of Sinope, a 2nd-century CE Greek convert to Christianity and later to Judaism, undertook two translations of the Psalms from Hebrew to Greek. In the first, he renders the verse "they disfigured my hands and feet"; in the second he revised this to "they have bound my hands and feet".
Sinop, historically known as Sinope (Ancient Greek: Σινώπη, Sinōpē), is a city on the isthmus of İnce Burun (İnceburun, Cape Ince) and on the Boztepe Peninsula, near Cape Sinope (Sinop Burnu, Boztepe Cape, Boztepe Burnu) which is situated on the northernmost edge of the Turkish side of the Black Sea coast, in the ancient region of Paphlagonia, in modern-day northern Turkey.
Onkelos (Hebrew: אֻנְקְלוֹס ʾunqəlōs), possibly identical to Aquila of Sinope, was a Roman national who converted to Judaism in Tannaic times (c. 35–120 CE). He is considered to be the author of the Targum Onkelos (c. 110 CE).
Priscilla and Aquila, a New Testament couple who assisted Paul of Tarsus; Aquila of Sinope, second-century translator of the Old Testament; Aquila Romanus, a third-century Latin grammarian; Pontius Aquila, first-century B.C. Roman tribune of the plebs
Ancient Greeks reached and settled the Black Sea by the 700s BC; Sinope was perhaps the earliest colony. [69] [70] According to the Pontic Greek historian Strabo, Greeks from the existing colony of Miletus settled the Pontus region. [69] Some walls from an early fortification stand in the modern Turkish city of Sinop (renamed from Sinope).
The Three, a group of Greek translations of the Hebrew Bible by three translators: Aquila of Sinope, Theodotion and Symmachus; The Three; See also. 3 (disambiguation) ...
In Greek mythology, Sinope (/ s ɪ ˈ n oʊ p i /; Ancient Greek: Σινώπη [1]) was one of the daughters of Asopus and thought to be an eponym of the city Sinope on the Black Sea. Family [ edit ]