How to Pronounce Pontus

What does Pontus mean?

Pontus means “the sea”.

Hitchcock’s Bible Names (1869), public domain.

Where was 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).

Adapted from Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897), public domain.

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