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    Cos

    Κώς

    Cos was an island in the Aegean Sea where Paul's ship stopped during his return journey to Jerusalem.

    Where the story of Cos happens Where the gazetteer locates Cos, framed to them: Cos. Each dot is a coordinate from the gazetteer. 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.Cos
    Where the gazetteer locates Cos
    verses
    1
    first named
    Acts 21:1
    last named
    Acts 21:1
    feature
    island
    coordinates
    36.82°N · 27.11°E
    island36.82°N · 27.11°E

    Kos (OpenBible)

    The gazetteer records one identification, and no competing one.

    Description

    Cos in the text

    In the words of STEPBible TIPNR:

    Cos, also known as Kos, is an island in the Aegean Sea, located off the coast of ancient Caria in Asia Minor (modern-day Turkey). It is mentioned once in the Bible, in Act.21.1, as one of the stops on Paul's return journey to Jerusalem after his third missionary journey.

    After leaving Miletus, where Paul had met with the elders of the Ephesian church (Act.20.17-38), he and his companions set sail and came to Cos. The next day, they went to Rhodes and from there to Patara. This brief mention of Cos provides insight into the route taken by Paul and his companions as they navigated the islands of the Aegean Sea.

    Cos was known in ancient times for its strategic location, fertile land, and medical school associated with Hippocrates, the famous Greek physician. The island was also a center of the worship of Asclepius, the Greek god of medicine.

    Although the Bible does not provide any details about Paul's activities or experiences on Cos, the mention of the island in the context of his journey demonstrates the apostle's determination to return to Jerusalem, despite the warnings he had received about the hardships that awaited him there (Act.20.22-23; 21:4, 11-14). The inclusion of Cos in the itinerary also highlights the extensive travel and maritime connections in the ancient Mediterranean world, which facilitated the spread of the gospel.

    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.

    Stands in the same events as

    The pattern

    Where Cos 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. 1 verse across 1 of 66 books; 65 write the name nowhere. OLD TESTAMENT · 39 BOOKSNEW TESTAMENT · 27 BOOKSACTS1 VERSE43 books and 1,018 chapters with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT Where the name is written across the corpus. 1 verse across 1 of 66 books; 65 write the name nowhere. OT · 39 BOOKSNT · 27 BOOKSACTS1 VERSE43 books with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT
    Cos is named in 1 verse — 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. 65 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 — one, across 1 book.

    1. Acts1 verse

      21:1

    Onward

    Where this page goes

    Nothing in the graph stands one hop from this entity yet. These are the best-connected entities of the same type, so the page still ends somewhere. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.

    ElsewhereTerritory of JudahOne of the most connected entities of this type.ElsewhereJerusalemThe capital of Israel, a holy city for three religionsElsewhereBashanRegion east of the Jordan, known for its fertility.

    Where they appear

    What happened here

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

    Sources

    What this rests on