Atlas Biblica

    place

    Pontus

    Πόντος

    Pontus was a region in Asia Minor along the Black Sea coast, home to Jewish inhabitants and early Christian converts.

    Where the story of Pontus happens Where the gazetteer locates Pontus, framed to them: Pontus. 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.Pontus
    Where the gazetteer locates Pontus
    verses
    3
    first named
    Acts 2:9
    last named
    1 Peter 1:1
    feature
    region
    coordinates
    40.68°N · 37.83°E
    region40.68°N · 37.83°E

    Pontus (OpenBible)

    The gazetteer records one identification, and no competing one.

    Description

    Pontus in the text

    In the words of STEPBible TIPNR:

    Pontus was an ancient region located in the northeastern part of Asia Minor (modern-day Turkey), bordering the Black Sea. It is mentioned in the New Testament as a place where Jewish inhabitants were present (Act.2.9; 18:2) and where early Christian communities were established (1Pet. 1:1). On the day of Pentecost, Jews from Pontus were among those who heard the apostles speaking in their own languages (Act.2.9). Aquila, a Jew from Pontus, and his wife Priscilla, were tentmakers who had been expelled from Rome by Emperor Claudius and met Paul in Corinth (Act.18.2). They became close friends and co-workers of Paul, hosting a church in their home (1Cor. 16:19). The apostle Peter addressed his first epistle to the pilgrims of the Dispersion in Pontus and other regions of Asia Minor (1Pet. 1:1), indicating the presence of Christian believers in the area. The mention of Pontus in the New Testament reveals the spread of the gospel and the establishment of Christian communities in various parts of the Roman Empire.

    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.

    Contains

    The pattern

    Where Pontus 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
    Pontus 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

      2:918:2

    2. 1 Peter1 verse

      1:1

    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. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.

    via Elect ExilesAsiaA Roman province in western Asia Minor.via Elect ExilesBithyniaA region in Asia Minorvia Elect ExilesCappadociaRegion in Asia Minor; home to early Christian believersvia Elect ExilesElectElect is a concept gathering 6 labelled instances in the text.via Elect ExilesExileExile is a concept gathering 51 labelled instances in the text.via Elect ExilesGalatiaA region in Asia Minor, recipient of Paul's epistle.

    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