place · also Kittim · Elishah
Cyprus
כִּתִּיΚύπριος
- verses
- 15
- first named
- Numbers 24:24
- last named
- Acts 27:4
- feature
- island
- coordinates
- 35.00°N · 33.00°E
Cyprus (OpenBible)
Scholarship offers 6 identifications for this place. The leading one is shown; the others are recorded in the gazetteer.
Description
Cyprus in the text
Cyprus is an island located in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, known in the Bible by various names, including Kittim and Elishah. In the Old Testament, the island is mentioned in the context of trade and prophecy. Isaiah 23:1, 12 and Jeremiah 2:10 refer to the ships of Kittim, indicating the island's involvement in maritime trade. Ezk.27.6 mentions the use of ivory from the coasts of Elishah (possibly Cyprus) in the construction of ships.
In Numbers 24:24 and Dan.11.30, Kittim is associated with ships that come against the people of God, possibly referring to the island's role in military campaigns or as a base for hostile forces.
In the New Testament, Cyprus plays a significant role in the spread of early Christianity. The apostle Barnabas, a Levite from Cyprus (Act.4.36), and some unnamed believers from the island were among the first to preach the gospel to the Gentiles in Antioch (Act.11.19-20). Barnabas and Saul (Paul) visited Cyprus during their first missionary journey (Act.13.4), where they encountered the sorcerer Elymas and converted the proconsul Sergius Paulus (Act.13.6-12).
Later, Barnabas and Mark sailed to Cyprus after a disagreement with Paul (Act.15.39). Paul also visited the island during his third missionary journey (Act.21.3) and during his journey to Rome as a prisoner (Act.27.4).
The early Christian community in Cyprus included Mnason, an early disciple who provided lodging for Paul and his companions in Jerusalem (Act.21.16).
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.
The pattern
Where Cyprus 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.
15 verses across 6 of 66 books; 60 write the name nowhere. Named in Numbers (1), Isaiah (2), Jeremiah (1), Ezekiel (2), Daniel (1) and Acts (8).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 15, across 6 books.
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.
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.
- Isaiah 23Cyprus carried the first word of Tyre’s ruin and offered Sidon no place of rest.
- Jeremiah 2Cyprus was crossed as a distant place of comparison in the search for anything like Israel’s exchange of gods.
- Ezekiel 27Cyprus supplied the wood used for Tyre’s ivory-inlaid deck.
- Acts 27The ship sailed to the lee of Cyprus because the winds were against it.
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