Atlas Biblica

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    Derbe

    Δερβαῖος

    Derbe, a city in Lycaonia, was visited by Paul during his missionary journeys.

    Where the story of Derbe happens Derbe, and 8 places the claims reach, framed to them: Derbe, Troas, Galatia, Lystra, Mysia, Neapolis, Philippi, Phrygia, Samothrace. 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.DerbeTroasGalatiaMysiaNeapolisPhilippiPhrygiaSamothrace
    Derbe, and 8 places the claims reach
    verses
    4
    first named
    Acts 14:6
    last named
    Acts 20:4
    feature
    settlement
    coordinates
    37.35°N · 33.36°E
    settlement37.35°N · 33.36°E

    Kerti Hüyük (OpenBible)

    Scholarship offers 3 identifications for this place. The leading one is shown; the others are recorded in the gazetteer.

    Description

    Derbe in the text

    In the words of STEPBible TIPNR:

    Derbe was a city in the region of Lycaonia, located in modern-day Turkey. It was one of the cities visited by Paul and Barnabas during their first missionary journey after they were forced to flee from Iconium (Act.14.6). In Derbe, they preached the gospel and made many disciples (Act.14.20-21). On Paul's second missionary journey, he revisited Derbe, where he met Timothy, who became his faithful companion and co-worker (Act.16.1). Gaius, one of Paul's travel companions, was also from Derbe (Act.20.4). The city was located on the eastern edge of the Roman province of Galatia and was known for its fertile soil and agricultural production.

    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.

    Associated with

    Stands in the same events as

    and 7 more, ordered by how many events they share.

    The pattern

    Where Derbe 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. 4 verses across 1 of 66 books; 65 write the name nowhere. OLD TESTAMENT · 39 BOOKSNEW TESTAMENT · 27 BOOKSACTS4 VERSES43 books and 1,018 chapters with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT Where the name is written across the corpus. 4 verses across 1 of 66 books; 65 write the name nowhere. OT · 39 BOOKSNT · 27 BOOKSACTS4 VERSES43 books with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT
    Derbe is named in 4 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. 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 — 4, across 1 book.

    1. Acts4 verses

      14:614:2016:120:4

    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