Pontus
pon'-tus (Pontos): Was an important province in the
northeastern part of Asia Minor, lying along the south shore
of the Black Sea. The name was geographical, not ethnical,
in origin, and was first used to designate that part of
Cappadocia which bordered on the "Pontus," as the Euxine was
often termed. Pontus proper extended from the Halys Rive...
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A province of Asia Minor
Ac 2:9; 1Pe 1:1
-Aquila lived in
Ac 18:2...
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a large district in the north of Asia Minor, extending along
the coast of the Pontus Euxinus Sea (Pontus), from which
circumstance the name was derived. It corresponds nearly to
the modern Trebizond. It is three times mentioned in the New
Testament -- Ac 2:9; 18:2; 1Pe 1:1 All these passages agree in
showing that there were many Jewish residen...
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a province of Asia Minor, stretching along the southern coast
of
the Euxine Sea, corresponding nearly to the modern
province of
Trebizond. In the time of the apostles it was a Roman
province.
Strangers from this province were at Jerusalem at
Pentecost
(Acts 2:9), and to "strangers scattered throughout
Pontus,"
among others, Peter addresse...
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N. of Asia Minor, stretching along the Euxine sea (Pontus,
from whence its name). Acts 2:9-10; Acts 18:2; 1 Peter 1:1;
which passages show many Jews resided there. Pompey defeated
its great king Mithridates, and so gained the W. of Pontus for
Rome, while the E. continued under native chieftains. Under
Nero all Pontus became a Roman province. B...
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And found a certain Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus, lately
come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla; (because that
Claudius had commanded all Jews to depart from Rome:) and came
unto them....
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Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered
throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,...
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Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in
Mesopotamia, and in Judaea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and
Asia,...
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