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    Miletus

    Μίλητος

    Miletus, a city in Asia Minor where Paul met with the elders of the Ephesian church on his way to Jerusalem (Act.20.15, 17) and where Trophimus was left ill (2Ti.4.20).

    Where the story of Miletus happens Where the gazetteer locates Miletus, framed to them: Miletus. 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.Miletus
    Where the gazetteer locates Miletus
    verses
    3
    first named
    Acts 20:15
    last named
    2 Timothy 4:20
    feature
    settlement
    coordinates
    37.53°N · 27.28°E
    settlement37.53°N · 27.28°E

    Miletus (OpenBible)

    The gazetteer records one identification, and no competing one.

    Description

    Miletus in the text

    In the words of STEPBible TIPNR:

    Miletus was an ancient city located on the western coast of Asia Minor (modern-day Turkey), near the mouth of the Maeander River. It was a significant port city and a center of trade and culture in the Greco-Roman world.

    In the New Testament, Miletus is mentioned in connection with the Apostle Paul's missionary journeys. During his third journey, Paul stopped at Miletus on his way to Jerusalem and sent for the elders of the church in Ephesus to meet him there (Act.20.15, 17). He delivered a farewell address to the Ephesian elders, warning them about false teachers and encouraging them to remain faithful to God (Act.20.18-35).

    In 2Ti.4.20, Paul mentions that he left Trophimus, one of his companions, ill at Miletus. This statement provides insight into the challenges and hardships faced by early Christian missionaries as they traveled and spread the gospel message.

    Miletus was known for its wool industry and its intellectual and artistic achievements. It was the birthplace of several notable Greek philosophers, including Thales, Anaximander, and Anaximenes, who were among the first to seek rational explanations for natural phenomena.

    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 Miletus 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. 3 verses across 2 of 66 books; 64 write the name nowhere. OLD TESTAMENT · 39 BOOKSNEW TESTAMENT · 27 BOOKSACTS2 VERSES43 books and 1,018 chapters with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT Where the name is written across the corpus. 3 verses across 2 of 66 books; 64 write the name nowhere. OT · 39 BOOKSNT · 27 BOOKSACTS2 VERSES43 books with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT
    Miletus is named in 3 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. 64 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 — 3, across 2 books.

    1. Acts2 verses

      20:1520:17

    2. 2 Timothy1 verse

      4:20

    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.

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