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Elymas

In the story

Barnabas and Saul go to Cyprus · 45 AD

Easton’s Bible Dictionary

Magician or sorcerer, the Arabic name of the Jew Bar-jesus, who withstood Paul and Barnabas in Cyprus. He was miraculously struck with blindness (Acts 13:11).

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

Named in 2 verses

Acts: 13:6, 13:8

The family, dates and events on this page come from Theographic, a knowledge graph of the Bible by Robert Rouse, used and shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. It is a work in progress, and its dates follow one reconstruction of biblical chronology among several. The dictionary article above is separately in the public domain.