Places of the Bible
Achaia
Region · region
What happened here
A dot is a moment; a bar is something that lasted, drawn to its length.
- Mission to Corinth, 1&2 Thess Written · 49 AD
- Third Missionary Journey Begins · 50 AD
Where the name appears
Events told in passages that name Achaia, and how many of their verses do. That is not the same as saying they happened here: a place can be named as a landmark, as somewhere being travelled to, or as the subject of a prophecy.
A dot is a moment; a bar is something that lasted, drawn to its length. The fainter the mark, the fewer verses name the place.
- Second Missionary Journey · 46 AD · 1 verse
- Third Missionary Journey · 50 AD · 2 verses
- Mission to Ephesus/1 Cor Written · 53 AD · 1 verse
Easton’s Bible Dictionary
The name originally of a narrow strip of territory in Greece, on the north-west of the Peloponnesus. Subsequently it was applied by the Romans to the whole Peloponnesus, now called the Morea, and the south of Greece. It was then one of the two provinces (Macedonia being the other) into which they divided the country when it fell under their dominion. It is in this latter enlarged meaning that the name is always used in the New Testament (Acts 18:12, 27; 19:21; Rom. 15: 26; 16:5, etc.). It was at the time when Luke wrote the Acts of the Apostles under the proconsular form of government; hence the appropriate title given to Gallio as the “deputy,” i.e., proconsul, of Achaia (Acts 18:12).
From M. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1893), in the public domain.
Named in 10 verses
- Acts
- 18:12, 18:27, 19:21
- Romans
- 15:26
- 1 Corinthians
- 16:15
- 2 Corinthians
- 1:1, 9:2, 11:10
- 1 Thessalonians
- 1:7, 1:8
The place, its people and its events come from Theographic, a knowledge graph of the Bible by Robert Rouse, used and shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.