Salamis
sal'-a-mis (Salamis):
1. Site:
A town on the east coast of Cyprus, situated some 3 miles to
the North of the medieval and modern Famagusta. It lay near
the river Pediaeus, at the eastern extremity of the great
plain of the Mesorea, which runs far into the interior of
the island toward Nicosia (Lefkosia), the present capital.
It possessed a goo...
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(A city of the island of Cyprus)
-Paul and Barnabas preach in
Ac 13:4,5...
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(suit), a city at the east end of the island of Cyprus, and
the first place visited by Paul and Barnabas, on the first
missionary journey, after leaving the mainland at Seleucia.
Here alone, among all the Greek cities visited by St. Paul, we
read expressly of "synagogues" in the plural, Ac 13:5 hence we
conclude that there were many Jews in Cy...
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a city on the south-east coast of Cyprus (Acts 13:5), where
Saul and Barnabas, on their first missionary journey, preached
the word in one of the Jewish synagogues, of which there seem
to have been several in that place. It is now called
Famagusta....
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A city on a commodious harbour in the E. of Cyprus, the first
place Paul and Barnabas visited after leaving the mainland at
Seleucia, on their first missionary tour. The "synagogues"
(implying the presence of many Jews) account for their going
there first. Moreover Cyprus was Barnabas' birthplace (Acts
13:4-5). Herod the Great farmed the Cypri...
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And when they were at Salamis, they preached the word of God
in the synagogues of the Jews: and they had also John to
[their] minister....
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