Minor (2 Occurrences)

... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (a.) Inferior in bulk, degree, importance, etc.; less; smaller; of little account; as, minor divisions of a body. ... biblethesaurus.org/m/minor.htm - 62k

Cilicia (8 Occurrences)

... Easton's Bible Dictionary A maritime province in the south-east of Asia Minor. Tarsus, the birth-place of Paul, was one of its chief ... biblethesaurus.org/c/cilicia.htm - 13k

Pontus (3 Occurrences)

... A province of Asia Minor, stretching along the southern coast of the Euxine Sea, corresponding nearly to the modern province of Trebizond. ... biblethesaurus.org/p/pontus.htm - 16k

Smyrna (2 Occurrences)

... Easton's Bible Dictionary Myrrh, an ancient city of Ionia, on the western coast of Asia Minor, about 40 miles to the north of Ephesus. ... biblethesaurus.org/s/smyrna.htm - 12k

Hellenist

... or imitates Greek manners; esp., a person of Jewish extraction who used the Greek language as his mother tongue, as did the Jews of Asia Minor, Greece, Syria ... biblethesaurus.org/h/hellenist.htm - 26k

Lydia (5 Occurrences)

... (1.) Ezek. 30:5 (Hebrews Lud), a province in the west of Asia Minor, which derived its name from the fourth son of Shem (Genesis 10:22). ... biblethesaurus.org/l/lydia.htm - 12k

Geology

... map shows, with considerable freedom, the distribution of the superficial strata of Syria, Palestine and Sinai, with parts of Asia Minor, Arabia and Egypt. ... biblethesaurus.org/g/geology.htm - 16k

Galatia (6 Occurrences)

... about BC 280. They were invited by the king of Bithynia to cross over into Asia Minor to assist him in his wars. There they ultimately ... biblethesaurus.org/g/galatia.htm - 23k

Philadelphia (2 Occurrences)

... Easton's Bible Dictionary Brotherly love, a city of Lydia in Asia Minor, about 25 miles south-east of Sardis. It was the seat of ... biblethesaurus.org/p/philadelphia.htm - 10k

Phrygia (4 Occurrences)

... Easton's Bible Dictionary Dry, an irregular and ill-defined district in Asia Minor. It was divided into two parts, the Greater Phrygia ... biblethesaurus.org/p/phrygia.htm - 11k

Pamphylia (6 Occurrences)

... from Paphos, sailed north-west and came to Perga, the capital of Pamphylia (Acts 13:13, 14), a province about the middle of the southern sea-board of Asia Minor... biblethesaurus.org/p/pamphylia.htm - 12k

Bithynia (2 Occurrences)

... Easton's Bible Dictionary A province in Asia Minor, to the south of the Euxine and Propontis. Christian congregations were here ... biblethesaurus.org/b/bithynia.htm - 11k

Hellenism

... do not know; but it can hardly have long antedated the continuance of this migration which led to the settlement of the coast districts of Asia Minor and the ... biblethesaurus.org/h/hellenism.htm - 26k

Pergamos (1 Occurrence)

... The chief city of Mysia, in Asia Minor. ... The term Asia, as here employed, should not be confused with the continent of Asia, nor with Asia Minor. ... biblethesaurus.org/p/pergamos.htm - 12k

Serpent (40 Occurrences)

... Southwestern Asia, India; Z. ravergieri Menatr., Southwestern Asia: Z. nummifer Renss., Egypt, Syria, Palestine, Cyprus, Asia Minor; Oligodon melanocephalus Jan ... biblethesaurus.org/s/serpent.htm - 46k

Pisidia (2 Occurrences)

... Easton's Bible Dictionary A district in Asia Minor, to the north of Pamphylia. The Taurus range of mountains extends through it. ... biblethesaurus.org/p/pisidia.htm - 21k

Tarsus (5 Occurrences)

... 7. The Tarsian Constitution 8. Paul of Tarsus 9. Later History LITERATURE 1. Situation: The chief city of Cilicia, the southeastern portion of Asia Minor. ... biblethesaurus.org/t/tarsus.htm - 30k

Ephesus (20 Occurrences)

... Easton's Bible Dictionary The capital of proconsular Asia, which was the western part of Asia Minor. It was colonized principally from Athens. ... biblethesaurus.org/e/ephesus.htm - 24k

Lycia (1 Occurrence)

... Easton's Bible Dictionary A wolf, a province in the south-west of Asia Minor, opposite the island of Rhodes. It forms part of the region now called Tekeh. ... biblethesaurus.org/l/lycia.htm - 9k

Gauls

... GAULS. golz (Galatai): Galatia in Asia Minor is literally the Gallia of the East; its inhabitants are called Galli by Roman writers, just as the inhabitants of ... biblethesaurus.org/g/gauls.htm - 7k

Pergamum (2 Occurrences)

... The term Asia, as here employed, should not be confused with the continent of Asia, nor with Asia Minor. It applied simply to that ... biblethesaurus.org/p/pergamum.htm - 12k

Cnidus (1 Occurrence)

... Easton's Bible Dictionary A town and harbour on the extreme south-west of the peninsula of Doris in Asia Minor. Paul sailed past ... biblethesaurus.org/c/cnidus.htm - 9k

Cappadocia (2 Occurrences)

... Easton's Bible Dictionary The easternmost and the largest province of Asia Minor. Christianity very early penetrated into this country ... biblethesaurus.org/c/cappadocia.htm - 10k

Coptic

... Only a few fragments in it (of Exodus, Ecclesiastes, 2 Maccabees, the Minor Prophets, and Catholic epistles) have yet been found. ... biblethesaurus.org/c/coptic.htm - 11k

Seleucus

... By later conquests and under the name of king, which he assumed in the year 306, he became ruler of Syria and the greater part of Asia Minor. ... biblethesaurus.org/s/seleucus.htm - 8k

Cyprus (12 Occurrences)

... Thus from the northern shore of the island the mainland of Asia Minor is clearly visible and Mt. Lebanon can be seen from Eastern Cyprus. ... biblethesaurus.org/c/cyprus.htm - 27k

Antioch (21 Occurrences)

... stood commands one of the roads leading from the East to the Meander and Ephesus; the Seleucid kings regularly founded their cities in Asia Minor at important ... biblethesaurus.org/a/antioch.htm - 27k

Obadiah (21 Occurrences)

... (9.) One who accompanied Ezra on the return from Babylon (Ezra 8:9). (10.) A prophet, fourth of the minor prophets in the Hebrew canon, and fifth in the LXX. ... biblethesaurus.org/o/obadiah.htm - 32k

Lud (10 Occurrences)

... Perhaps the name had changed in the interval, owing to an immigration similar to that which brought the Hittites into Asia Minor, and caused change in the ... biblethesaurus.org/l/lud.htm - 13k

Ludim (3 Occurrences)

... Perhaps the name had changed in the interval, owing to an immigration similar to that which brought the Hittites into Asia Minor, and caused change in the ... biblethesaurus.org/l/ludim.htm - 11k

Lycaonia (2 Occurrences)

... Easton's Bible Dictionary An inland province of Asia Minor, on the west of Cappadocia and the south of Galatia. It was a Roman province ... biblethesaurus.org/l/lycaonia.htm - 10k

Laodicea (6 Occurrences)

... king of Syria, who rebuilt it. It was one of the most important and flourishing cities of Asia Minor. At a very early period it ... biblethesaurus.org/l/laodicea.htm - 11k

Girgashite (7 Occurrences)

... of the Egyptian king, Ramses II, mention the Qarqish who sent help to the Hittites in their war with Egypt; but Qarqish was more probably in Asia Minor than in ... biblethesaurus.org/g/girgashite.htm - 11k

Gomer (7 Occurrences)

... In the seventh century BC they were driven out of their original seat by the Scythians, and overran western Asia Minor, whence they were afterwards expelled. ... biblethesaurus.org/g/gomer.htm - 11k

Galatian (3 Occurrences)

... (a.) of or pertaining to Galatia or its inhabitants. -- A native or inhabitant of Galatia, in Asia Minor; a descendant of the Gauls who settled in Asia Minor. ... biblethesaurus.org/g/galatian.htm - 7k

Troas (6 Occurrences)

... A city on the coast of Mysia, in the north-west of Asia Minor, named after ancient Troy, which was at some little distance from it (about 4 miles) to the north ... biblethesaurus.org/t/troas.htm - 11k

Rhodes (2 Occurrences)

... A rose, an island to the south of the western extremity of Asia Minor, between Coos and Patara, about 46 miles long and 18 miles broad. ... biblethesaurus.org/r/rhodes.htm - 13k

Mysia (2 Occurrences)

... Easton's Bible Dictionary A province in the north-west of Asia Minor. On his first voyage to Europe (Acts 16:7, 8) Paul passed through ... biblethesaurus.org/m/mysia.htm - 8k

Myra (1 Occurrence)

... One of the chief towns of Lycia, in Asia Minor, about 2 1/2 miles from the coast (Acts 27:5). Here Paul removed from the Adramyttian ship in which he had ... biblethesaurus.org/m/myra.htm - 8k

Perga (3 Occurrences)

... Easton's Bible Dictionary The capital of Pamphylia, on the coast of Asia Minor. Paul and his companions landed at this place from ... biblethesaurus.org/p/perga.htm - 10k

Barnabas (33 Occurrences)

... with them, they were appointed as missionaries to the heathen world, and in this capacity visited Cyprus and some of the principal cities of Asia Minor (Acts 13 ... biblethesaurus.org/b/barnabas.htm - 25k

Chios (1 Occurrence)

... CHIOS. ke'-os, ki'-os (Chios): An island belonging to Turkey in the Aegean Sea, South of Lesbos, and very near the mainland of Asia Minor. ... biblethesaurus.org/c/chios.htm - 11k

Caria

... ka'-ri-a (Karia): A country in the Southwest of Asia Minor which extended on the North to Lydia, on the East to Phrygia, on the South to Lycia, and the West to ... biblethesaurus.org/c/caria.htm - 7k

Crete (7 Occurrences)

... With Cythera on the North and Carpathos and Rhodos on the Northeast, it forms a continuous bridge between Greece and Asia Minor. ... biblethesaurus.org/c/crete.htm - 19k

Adramyttium (2 Occurrences)

... Easton's Bible Dictionary A city of Asia Minor on the coast of Mysia, which in early times was called AEolis. The ship in which ... biblethesaurus.org/a/adramyttium.htm - 9k

Artemis (5 Occurrences)

... It may be shown ultimately that the various goddesses of Syria and Asia Minor all owe their origin to the earlier Assyrian or Babylonian Ishtar, the goddess of ... biblethesaurus.org/a/artemis.htm - 14k

A (102073 Occurrences)

... 2. (n.) The name of the sixth tone in the model major scale (that in C), or the first tone of the minor scale, which is named after it the scale in A minor. ... biblethesaurus.org/a/a.htm - 9k

Abdias

... Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia ABDIAS. ab-di'-as (2 Esdras 1:39 = Obadiah): One of the Minor Prophets. Mentioned with Abraham, Isaac ... biblethesaurus.org/a/abdias.htm - 6k

Scale (38 Occurrences)

... of octaves. See Chromatic scale, Diatonic scale, Major scale, and Minor scale, under Chromatic, Diatonic, Major, and Minor. 24. (n ... biblethesaurus.org/s/scale.htm - 22k

Stoics (1 Occurrence)

... Further color is given to this view by the fact that Zeno's immediate successors at the head of the school also hailed from Asia Minor, Cleanthes (331-232 BC ... biblethesaurus.org/s/stoics.htm - 15k

Signature (1 Occurrence)

... 5. (n.) The designation of the key (when not C major, or its relative, A minor) by means of one or more sharps or flats at the beginning of the staff ... biblethesaurus.org/s/signature.htm - 8k

Sardis (3 Occurrences)

... Easton's Bible Dictionary The metropolis of Lydia in Asia Minor. It stood on the river Pactolus, at the foot of mount Tmolus. Here ... biblethesaurus.org/s/sardis.htm - 13k

Armenia (2 Occurrences)

... Armenia Major was bounded on the North by the River Cyrus (Kour), Iberia, Colchis, and the Moschici Mts.; on the West by Asia Minor and the Euphrates; on the ... biblethesaurus.org/a/armenia.htm - 21k

Semites

... Elam as the historic nation in the highlands East of the Tigris, between Media and Persia; Asshur as the Assyrians; Lud as the Lydians of Asia Minor; and Aram ... biblethesaurus.org/s/semites.htm - 27k

Nahum (3 Occurrences)

... Easton's Bible Dictionary Consolation, the seventh of the so-called minor prophets, an Elkoshite. All we know of him is recorded in the book of his prophecies. ... biblethesaurus.org/n/nahum.htm - 21k

Semitic

... Elam as the historic nation in the highlands East of the Tigris, between Media and Persia; Asshur as the Assyrians; Lud as the Lydians of Asia Minor; and Aram ... biblethesaurus.org/s/semitic.htm - 28k

Graecia

... not only Greece proper, but also the islands of the Ionian and Aegean seas, the seaboard of the Hellespont, of the Pontus, and of Asia Minor, the flourishing ... biblethesaurus.org/g/graecia.htm - 21k

Habakkuk (3 Occurrences)

... Embrace, the eighth of the twelve minor prophets. ... A full discussion of these views is not possible in this article (see Eiselen, Minor Prophets, 466-68). ... biblethesaurus.org/h/habakkuk.htm - 26k

Diana (5 Occurrences)

... It may be shown ultimately that the various goddesses of Syria and Asia Minor all owe their origin to the earlier Assyrian or Babylonian Ishtar, the goddess of ... biblethesaurus.org/d/diana.htm - 15k

Palestine (1 Occurrence)

... map shows, with considerable freedom, the distribution of the superficial strata of Syria, Palestine and Sinai, with parts of Asia Minor, Arabia and Egypt. ... biblethesaurus.org/p/palestine.htm - 89k

Macedonia (23 Occurrences)

... Persian empire. The battle of the Granicus (334 BC) was followed by the submission or subjugation of most of Asia Minor. By the ... biblethesaurus.org/m/macedonia.htm - 40k

Zephaniah (11 Occurrences)

... Jehovah has concealed, or Jehovah of darkness. (1.) The son of Cushi, and great-grandson of Hezekiah, and the ninth in the order of the minor prophets. ... biblethesaurus.org/z/zephaniah.htm - 32k

Great (10383 Occurrences)

... 4. Campaign in Asia Minor: Having thus secured his rear, Alexander collected his army at Pella to cross the Hellespont, that he might exact the vengeance of ... biblethesaurus.org/g/great.htm - 35k

Micah (54 Occurrences)

... Very little is known of the circumstances of his life (Comp. Jeremiah 26:18, 19). Micah, Book of. The sixth in order of the so-called minor prophets. ... biblethesaurus.org/m/micah.htm - 38k

Derbe (4 Occurrences)

... Concentration of effort, and utilization only of the most fully prepared material were the characteristics of Paul's missionary journeys in Asia Minor. ... biblethesaurus.org/d/derbe.htm - 15k

Apostolic (2 Occurrences)

... that Christianity extended around the Mediterranean from Alexandria to Rome (and doubtless farther, although data are scanty), while Asia Minor was especially ... biblethesaurus.org/a/apostolic.htm - 17k

Dispersion (4 Occurrences)

... From Syria they found their way into Asia Minor. ... (4.) From Asia Minor many Jews moved into Greece and Macedonia, chiefly for purposes of commerce. ... biblethesaurus.org/d/dispersion.htm - 44k

Haggai (14 Occurrences)

... Easton's Bible Dictionary Festive, one of the twelve so-called minor prophets. He was the first of the three (Zechariah, his contemporary ... biblethesaurus.org/h/haggai.htm - 28k

Asia (22 Occurrences)

... Is used to denote Proconsular Asia, a Roman province which embraced the western parts of Asia Minor, and of which Ephesus was the capital, in Acts 2:9; 6:9; 16 ... biblethesaurus.org/a/asia.htm - 71k

Minnith (2 Occurrences)

biblethesaurus.org/m/minnith.htm - 8k

Archaeology

... Read Complete Article... ASIA MINOR, ARCHAEOLOGY OF. ... This is not to assert, however, that any great number of Semitic people ever made Asia Minor their home. ... biblethesaurus.org/a/archaeology.htm - 61k

Proselyte (2 Occurrences)

... Oracles (circa 160 BC), "crowded with their numbers every ocean and country." There was hardly a seaport or a commercial center in Asia Minor, Macedonia, Greece ... biblethesaurus.org/p/proselyte.htm - 26k

Commentaries

... Not all by any means, but very many of the commentaries of Calvin were the fruit of pulpit prelections (eg the expositions of Job, the Minor Prophets, Jeremiah ... biblethesaurus.org/c/commentaries.htm - 57k

Nations (683 Occurrences)

... In the immediate descendants of Japheth (Genesis 10:2), Gomer, Magog, Tubal and Mesech, we have the principal nations of Asia Minor, but Madai stands for the ... biblethesaurus.org/n/nations.htm - 58k

Malachi (2 Occurrences)

... Messenger or angel, the last of the minor prophets, and the writer of the last book of the Old Testament canon (Malachi 4:4, 5, 6). Nothing is known of him ... biblethesaurus.org/m/malachi.htm - 21k

I-iii

... 30 to 13 is explained by Judges-Ruth, 1 and 2 Samuel, 1 and 2 Kings, 1 and 2 Chronicles, Ezra-Nehemiah, Jeremiah-Lamentations and the 12 minor prophets, each ... biblethesaurus.org/i/i-iii.htm - 31k

Separate (115 Occurrences)

... by the evidence of the writing itself which, as we have seen, shows in several details exact knowledge of the topography and local history of Asia Minor. ... biblethesaurus.org/s/separate.htm - 71k

Introduction (3 Occurrences)

... 30 to 13 is explained by Judges-Ruth, 1 and 2 Samuel, 1 and 2 Kings, 1 and 2 Chronicles, Ezra-Nehemiah, Jeremiah-Lamentations and the 12 minor prophets, each ... biblethesaurus.org/i/introduction.htm - 33k

Nineveh (23 Occurrences)

... six hundred years with hideous tyranny and violence, from the Caucasus and the Caspian to the Persian Gulf, and from beyond the Tigris to Asia Minor and Egypt ... biblethesaurus.org/n/nineveh.htm - 52k

Alphabet (2 Occurrences)

... This order is, however, full of minor variations even among the Western alphabets and in the Indian languages the letters are entirely regrouped on a different ... biblethesaurus.org/a/alphabet.htm - 24k