Open Bible Data Home About News OET Key
OET OET-RV OET-LV ULT UST BSB BLB AICNT OEB WEB WMB NET LSV FBV TCNT T4T LEB BBE MOF JPS ASV DRA YLT DBY RV WBS KJB BB GNV CB TNT WYC SR-GNT UHB Related Parallel Interlinear Reference Dictionary Search
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W XY Z
PAPHOS
Originally a Phoenician settlement in southwest Cyprus. “Old Paphos” was supplemented by a Greek settlement, “New Paphos,” some 10 miles (16.1 kilometers) distant; the new one became the administrative center when Cyprus became a senatorial province of Rome in 22 BC. The combined city was famous for its temple, dedicated originally to the Syrian goddess Astarte, worshiped (according to Tacitus) with ancient Phoenician rites involving anointing of a conical stone (meteorite?). The Greeks identified her with Aphrodite, claiming she sprang from the sea.
At Paphos, Paul first met vigorous opposition to the gospel from Elymas. Here Paul performed his first recorded miracle. Mercifully, Elymas’s blindness was only “for a time” (Acts 13:11).