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Philippi
Φίλιπποι
- verses
- 9
- first named
- Acts 16:12
- last named
- 1 Thessalonians 2:2
- feature
- settlement
- coordinates
- 41.01°N · 24.28°E
Philippi (OpenBible)
The gazetteer records one identification, and no competing one.
Description
Philippi in the text
Philippi was a prominent city in the region of Macedonia (modern-day Greece) and played a significant role in the early spread of Christianity. The city is first mentioned in the New Testament in connection with Paul's second missionary journey (Act.16.12). In Philippi, Paul and his companions met a group of women praying by the river, including Lydia, a merchant who became the first convert in Europe (Act.16.13-15). However, Paul and Silas were soon imprisoned after casting out a spirit of divination from a slave girl (Act.16.16-24). While in prison, they experienced a miraculous earthquake that led to the conversion of the jailer and his household (Act.16.25-34).
Paul visited Philippi again on his third missionary journey (Act.20.6) and later wrote a letter to the church, known as the Epistle to the Philippians. In this letter, Paul expresses his deep affection for the Philippian believers and thanks them for their support and partnership in the gospel (Phil. 1:3-7; 4:15-19). He also encourages them to remain united, humble, and joyful in the face of adversity (Phil. 1:27-2:18; 4:4-7). The church in Philippi is portrayed as a faithful and generous community, supporting Paul's ministry even in his imprisonment (Phil. 4:10-20).
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 Philippi 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.
9 verses across 5 of 66 books; 61 write the name nowhere. Named in Acts (2), 1 Corinthians (1), 2 Corinthians (2), Philippians (3) and 1 Thessalonians (1).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 9, across 5 books.
Acts2 verses
1 Corinthians1 verse
2 Corinthians2 verses
Philippians3 verses
1 Thessalonians1 verse
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.
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.
- Philippians 1Philippi receives Paul’s greeting and his account of prayer, partnership, courage, suffering, and joy.
- Philippians 4Philippi was represented by a church that partnered in giving and receiving.
- 1 Thessalonians 2Philippi was where the missionaries had already endured suffering and shameful treatment.
Sources