Places of the Bible
Iconium
City
What happened here
A dot is a moment; a bar is something that lasted, drawn to its length.
- First Missionary Journey · 45 AD
- Mission to Antioch in Pisidia · 45 AD
- Mission to Iconium · 46 AD
- Return to Antioch in Syria · 46 AD
Where the name appears
Events told in passages that name Iconium, 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.
- Mission to Lystra and Derbe · 46 AD · 1 verse
- Second Missionary Journey · 46 AD · 1 verse
- Timothy Joins Paul and Silas · 47 AD · 1 verse
Easton’s Bible Dictionary
The capital of ancient Lycaonia. It was first visited by Paul and Barnabas from Antioch-in-Pisidia during the apostle’s first missionary journey (Acts 13:50, 51). Here they were persecuted by the Jews, and being driven from the city, they fled to Lystra. They afterwards returned to Iconium, and encouraged the church which had been founded there (14:21, 22). It was probably again visited by Paul during his third missionary journey along with Silas (18:23). It is the modern Konieh, at the foot of Mount Taurus, about 120 miles inland from the Mediterranean.
From M. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1893), in the public domain.
Named in 6 verses
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.