Places of the Bible
Ptolemais
City
What happened here
- Voyage from Miletus to Jerusalem · 54 AD
Easton’s Bible Dictionary
A maritime city of Galilee (Acts 21:7). It was originally called “Accho” (q.v.), and received the name Ptolemais from Ptolemy Soter when he was in possession of Coele-Syria.
From M. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1893), in the public domain.
Named in 1 verse
- Acts
- 21:7
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.