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    Timothy

    Τιμόθεος

    Timothy was a young disciple and co-worker of Paul, who accompanied him on his missionary journeys and later served as a pastor.

    verses
    28
    first named
    Acts 16:1
    last named
    Hebrews 13:23
    period
    the New Testament
    role
    Man

    Description

    Who was Timothy?

    In the words of STEPBible TIPNR:

    Timothy was a young disciple and close companion of the Apostle Paul. He is mentioned frequently in the New Testament, both in the book of Acts and in Paul's epistles. Timothy was from Lystra, the son of a Greek father and a Jewish mother named Eunice (Act.16.1). He was well-respected by the believers in his hometown and in Iconium (Act.16.2). Paul invited Timothy to join him on his missionary journeys, and he became a valuable assistant and co-worker (Act.16.3; 17.14-15; 18.5; 19.22; 20.4). Paul referred to Timothy as his "true son in the faith" (1Ti.1.2) and sent him on important missions to churches in Macedonia, Achaia, and Ephesus (Act.19.22; 1Co.4.17; 16.10; Php.2.19). Timothy was with Paul during his first Roman imprisonment and is named as a co-sender of several of Paul's letters (Php.1.1; Col.1.1; Phm.1.1). Paul also wrote two personal letters to Timothy, providing guidance and encouragement for his pastoral ministry (1Ti.1.2; 2Ti.1.2). These letters, along with the letter to Titus, are known as the Pastoral Epistles. According to Heb.13.23, Timothy was imprisoned at some point but later released. Tradition holds that Timothy served as the bishop of Ephesus in his later years. Timothy's life and ministry exemplify the importance of mentoring, discipleship, and faithful service in the early church.

    Relations

    Direct connections

    Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.

    How the graph connects Timothy 10 of 15 entities the graph connects to Timothy, in one group: events 10. Kinship, company and ground are stated relations; events counts the acts two entities stand in together and is not a relation. Each mark is sized by how many verses name that entity and labelled with the link and the count, so the grouping and the size are both readable without colour. Distance from the centre carries nothing.Jesus2 events · 1,160 versesJudah1 event · 1,023 versesPaul22 events · 182 versesFaith5 events · 146 versesPrayer2 events · 144 versesLove2 events · 108 versesMacedonia3 events · 27 versesEphesus2 events · 22 versesSilas8 events · 17 versesThessalonian Church2 events · 8 versesTimothy

    The 10 best-attested of 15 are drawn. All 15 are listed below.

    Child of

    Descendant of

    Stands in the same events as

    and 35 more, ordered by how many events they share.

    Places

    Where this happens

    The places the claims about this person reach, drawn where the gazetteer locates them. A point is where a row puts them and never where tradition does; no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.

    Where the story of Timothy happens All 11 places the claims about Timothy reach, on a map of the world the text moves through, framed to them: Troas, Lystra, Galatia, Mysia, Neapolis, Philippi, Phrygia, Samothrace, Berea, Ephesus, Macedonia. Each dot is a coordinate from the gazetteer, sized by how many rows put Timothy there. The coastline is a modern one, simplified; no border, road or settlement of any period is drawn, and no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.TroasLystraGalatiaMysiaNeapolisPhilippiPhrygiaSamothraceBereaEphesus
    the New TestamentAll 11 places the claims about Timothy reach

    The pattern

    Where Timothy is named

    Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.

    Where the name is written across the corpus. 28 verses across 12 of 66 books; 54 write the name nowhere. OLD TESTAMENT · 39 BOOKSNEW TESTAMENT · 27 BOOKSPHILIPPIANS–2 TIMOTHY13 VERSES43 books and 1,018 chapters with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT Where the name is written across the corpus. 28 verses across 12 of 66 books; 54 write the name nowhere. OT · 39 BOOKSNT · 27 BOOKSPHILIPPIANS–2 TIMOTHY13 VERSES43 books with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT
    Timothy is named in 28 verses — occurrences of the name in the Hebrew or Greek, counted in the versification of the Berean Standard Bible (v5.7). Every book of the corpus is drawn, its width its share of the 1,189 chapters. 54 of the 66 books never write it. A verse that tells of this subject without writing the name is not counted here.

    Read it

    Where to read it

    Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 28, across 12 books.

    1. Acts6 verses

      16:117:1417:1518:519:2220:4

    2. Romans1 verse

      16:21

    3. 1 Corinthians3 verses

      4:1716:1016:24

    4. 2 Corinthians2 verses

      1:11:19

    5. Philippians2 verses

      1:12:19

    6. Colossians1 verse

      1:1

    7. 1 Thessalonians3 verses

      1:13:23:6

    8. 2 Thessalonians1 verse

      1:1

    9. 1 Timothy4 verses

      1:21:186:206:21

    10. 2 Timothy2 verses

      1:24:22

    11. Philemon1 verse

      1:1

    12. Hebrews2 verses

      13:2313:25

    Onward

    Where this page goes

    Not the direct relations above — these are one hop further out, ranked so that a rare shared connection outweighs a common one. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.

    via Eunice and Loisfather of EuniceFather of Eunice - Grandfather of Timothy
    ElsewhereGenealogy of TimothyEvery ancestor and every descendant the text names, both gospel lines where they differ.

    Where they appear

    Chapter by chapter

    Atlas's reading of each chapter this person appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.

    11 more chapters, from Philippians 1 to Hebrews 13

    Sources

    What this rests on