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Achaia Scripture - Acts 18:12

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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Achaia Scripture - 2 Corinthians 11:10

As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this boasting in the regions of Achaia....

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Achaia in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

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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Achaia Scripture - Acts 18:27

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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Achaia Scripture - 1 Thessalonians 1:7

So that ye were ensamples to all that believe in Macedonia and Achaia....

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Achaia in Naves Topical Bible

(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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Achaia Scripture - Acts 19:21

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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Achaia in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(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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Achaia Scripture - Romans 16:5

Likewise [greet] the church that is in their house. Salute my wellbeloved Epaenetus, who is the firstfruits of Achaia unto Christ....

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Achaia in Easton's Bible Dictionary

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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