Achaia
a-ka'-ya (Achaia): The smallest country in the Peloponnesus
lying along the southern shore of the Corinthian Gulf, north
of Arcadia and east of Elis. The original inhabitants were
Ionians, but these were crowded out later by the Acheans,
who came from the East. According to Herodotus, the former
founded twelve cities, many of which retain thei...
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(A region of Greece). Paul visits Ac 18; 19:21; Ro 16:5; 1Co
16:15; 2Co 1:1. Benevolence of the Christians in Ro 15:26; 2Co
9:2; 11:10...
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(trouble) signifies in the New Testament a Roman province
which included the whole of the Peloponnesus and the greater
part of Hellas proper, with the adjacent islands. This
province, with that of Macedonia, comprehended the while of
Greece; hence Achaia and Macedonia are frequently mentioned
together in the New Testament to indicate all Greec...
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the name originally of a narrow strip of territory in Greece, on the north-west of the
Peloponnesus. Subsequently it was applied by the Romans to the whole Peloponnesus, now called
the Morea, and the south of Greece. It was then one of the two provinces(Macedonia being the
other) into which they divided the country when it fell under their domin...
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In New Testament, a Roman province, including the whole
Peloponnese, and most of Hellas proper, with the islands. This
province, with Macedonia, comprehended all Greece (Acts 18:12;
Acts 19:21). The name was given by the Romans, when they took
Corinth and destroyed the Achaian League (146 D.C.), which,
beginning with the narrow northern region...
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For from you sounded out the word of the Lord not only in
Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith to
God-ward is spread abroad; so that we need not to speak any
thing....
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And when Gallio was the deputy of Achaia, the Jews made
insurrection with one accord against Paul, and brought him to
the judgment seat,...
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And when he was disposed to pass into Achaia, the brethren
wrote, exhorting the disciples to receive him: who, when he
was come, helped them much which had believed through grace:...
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After these things were ended, Paul purposed in the spirit,
when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to
Jerusalem, saying, After I have been there, I must also see
Rome....
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