Places of the Bible
Syrtis
Water · water; from harper; now Sidra
What happened here
A dot is a moment; a bar is something that lasted, drawn to its length.
- Paul's Journey to Rome · 56 AD
- Paul is shipwrecked by a storm · 57 AD
Easton’s Bible Dictionary
Found only in Acts 27:17, the rendering of the Greek Syrtis. On the north coast of Africa were two localities dangerous to sailors, called the Greater and Lesser Syrtis. The former of these is probably here meant. It lies between Tripoli and Barca, and near Cyrene. The Lesser Syrtis lay farther to the west.
From M. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1893), in the public domain.
Named in 1 verse
- Acts
- 27:17
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.