Ξιφήνη - Stephanos Ethnika

Ξιφήνη OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

region

Ξιφήνη, χώρα Παλαιστίνης. Ἰώσηπος ἕκτῳ Ἰουδαϊκῆς ἱστορίας τὸ ἐθνικὸν Ξιφηναῖος φησί.

Xiphene: a region in Palaistine. Josephos, book 6 in his Jewish History, says the ethnonym is 'Xiphenaios'.

Text Details

Entry	#8
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 481.5
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-31
Word count	11
AI translation	gpt-5.5 v3 · gpt-5.5

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Ἰώσηπος (Josephus)	Ἰουδαϊκῆς ἱστορίας · (6,275)

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Ξιφήνη	Xiphene (place) · place
Παλαιστίνη	Palestine · place · corrected · Q23792
Ξιφηναῖος	Xiphenaean (ethnic name) · people
Ξιφήνη	place · explicit · wikidata: Q108517399 · seeded_headword_alignment

Links

Place links	Xiphene (Pauly-Wissowa)
Page scans	e9783110219630_i1760.jpg
Review	Open review page

Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
Formula	X (AUTHOR NAME) + Y (dative NUMBER) + Z (genitive BOOK NAME) formula:5e7f1861601f28d1	*Translate as "X, book Y in his Z"* Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Formula	X (AUTHOR NAME) + Y (NUMERAL) formula:a0ca4574d7d0ffdb	Translate as "X, book Y" Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	X (AUTHOR NAME) + ἐν + Y (dative BOOK NAME) formula:c795eaabedf9a542	*Translate as "Χ, in his Y"* Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	X (SETTLEMENT) + Y (genitive PEOPLE) formula:0a6d211492d74a05	Translate as "a X of the Y" Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	X (SETTLEMENT) + Y (genitive REGION) formula:1040044f9f2bf616	Translate as "a X in Y" Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Formula	τὸ ἐθνικὸν + X (nominative ETHNONYM) formula:cfc8a7c494690fc3	Translate as "the ethnonym is 'X'" Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Gloss	ἐθνικόν τό gloss:9c5337ad6342cf4a	ethnonym Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	χώρα ἡ gloss:54f628c16aa263ce	region; territory (when belonging to a specific people, tribe, or nation); surrounding territory (when juxtaposed against a πόλις); land (remote or poetical places) Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences

Herodian overlaps

Stephanos excerpt (left) is aligned with matched Herodian passages (right). Colors indicate corresponding overlap spans.

No significant Herodian overlaps were found for this headword in the latest run.