Miletus
mi-le'-tus (Miletos): A famous early Ionian Greek city on
the coast of Caria, near the mouth of the Meander River,
which, according to Acts 20:15--21:1, and 2 Tim 4:20 (the
King James Version "Miletum"), Paul twice visited. In the
earliest times it was a prominent trading post, and it is
said that 75 colonies were founded by its merchants. Amo...
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Also called MILETUM
-A seaport in Asia Minor
-Paul visits
Ac 20:15
-And sends to Ephesus for the elders of the congregation, and
addresses them at
Ac 20:17-38
-Trophimus left sick at
2Ti 4:20...
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Ac 20:15,17 less correctly called MILETUM in 2Ti 4:20 It lay
on the coast, 36 miles to the south of Ephesus, a day's sail
from Trogyllium. Ac 20:15 Moreover, to those who are sailing
from the north it is in the direct line for Cos. The site of
Miletus has now receded ten miles from the coast, and even in
the apostles' time it must have lost it...
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(Miletum, 2 Tim. 4:20), a seaport town and the ancient capital
of Ionia, about 36 miles south of Ephesus. On his
voyage from
Greece to Syria, Paul touched at this port, and
delivered that
noble and pathetic address to the elders
("presbyters," ver. 28)
of Ephesus recorded in Acts 20:15-35. The site of
Miletus is now
some 10 miles from the ...
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Acts 20:15; Acts 20:17; where Paul on his third missionary
journey (A.D. 51) assembled and addressed the elders of
Ephesus, 25 miles distant to the N. Miletus was a day's sail
from Trogyllium (Acts 20:15) and in the direct course for Cos
(Acts 21:1). He visited Miletus again before his last
imprisonment, and left Trophimus there sick (2 Timoth...
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And we sailed thence, and came the next [day] over against
Chios; and the next [day] we arrived at Samos, and tarried at
Trogyllium; and the next [day] we came to Miletus....
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And from Miletus he sent to Ephesus, and called the elders of
the church....
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