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pontus |
3 definitions found From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: Pontus n : ancient personification of the sea; father of Nereus [syn: {Pontus}, {Pontos}] From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: Pontus a province of Asia Minor, stretching along the southern coast of the Euxine Sea, corresponding nearly to the modern province of Trebizond In the time of the apostles it was a Roman province. Strangers from this province were at Jerusalem at Pentecost (Acts 2:9), and to "strangers scattered throughout Pontus," among others Peter addresses his first epistle (1 Pet. 1:1). It was evidently the resort of many Jews of the Dispersion. Aquila was a native of Pontus (Acts 18:2). From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: Pontus, the sea
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