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Places of the Bible

Areopagus

Landmark

What happened here

  • Paul preaches in Athens · 48 AD

Where the name appears

Events told in passages that name Areopagus, 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.

  • Second Missionary Journey · 46 AD · 3 verses

Easton’s Bible Dictionary

The Areopagus or rocky hill in Athens, north-west of the Acropolis, where the Athenian supreme tribunal and court of morals was held. From some part of this hill Paul delivered the address recorded in Acts 17:22-31.

From M. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1893), in the public domain.

Named in 3 verses

Acts
17:19, 17:22, 17:34

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.