Places of the Bible

Cyprus

Island · island

What happened here

A dot is a moment; a bar is something that lasted, drawn to its length.

First Missionary Journey · 45 AD
Barnabas and Saul go to Cyprus · 45 AD
Paul and Barnabas part ways · 47 AD
Voyage from Miletus to Jerusalem · 54 AD
Journey to Rome begins · 56 AD
Paul's Journey to Rome · 56 AD

Where the name appears

Events told in passages that name Cyprus, 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.

Prophecies of Isaiah · 758 BC · 2 verses
Prophecies of Jeremiah · 627 BC · 1 verse
Prophecies of Ezekiel · 592 BC · 1 verse
Believers share all things · 30 AD · 1 verse
Disciples first called Christians · 40 AD · 2 verses
Second Missionary Journey · 46 AD · 1 verse

Easton’s Bible Dictionary

One of the largest islands of the Mediterranean, about 148 miles long and 40 broad. It is distant about 60 miles from the Syrian coast. It was the “Chittim” of the Old Testament (Num. 24:24). The Greek colonists gave it the name of Kypros, from the cyprus, i.e., the henna, which grew on this island. It was originally inhabited by Phoenicians. In B.C. 477 it fell under the dominion of the Greeks; and became a Roman province B.C. 58. In ancient times it was a centre of great commercial activity. Corn and wine and oil were produced here in the greatest perfection. It was rich also in timber and in mineral wealth.

It is first mentioned in the New Testament (Acts 4:36) as the native place of Barnabas. It was the scene of Paul’s first missionary labours (13:4-13), when he and Barnabas and John Mark were sent forth by the church of Antioch. It was afterwards visited by Barnabas and Mark alone (15:39). Mnason, an “old disciple,” probaly one of the converts of the day of Pentecost belonging to this island, is mentioned (21:16). It is also mentioned in connection with the voyages of Paul (Acts 21:3; 27:4). After being under the Turks for three hundred years, it was given up to the British Government in 1878.

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

Named in 12 verses

Isaiah: 23:1, 23:12
Jeremiah: 2:10
Ezekiel: 27:6
Acts: 4:36, 11:19, 11:20, 13:4, 15:39, 21:3, 21:16, 27:4

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.