Cappadocia
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Cappadocia (2 Occurrences)

Acts 2:9 Parthians, Medes, Elamites, and people from Mesopotamia, Judea, Cappadocia, Pontus, Asia, (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV)

1 Peter 1:1 Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the chosen ones who are living as foreigners in the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV)

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Cappadocia (2 Occurrences)
...CAPPADOCIA. ... After the Hittites fade from sight, following the fall of Carchemish,
about 718 BC, Cappadocia emerges as a satrapy of Persia. ...
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Cappado'cia (2 Occurrences)
Cappado'cia. << Cappadocia, Cappado'cia. Caprice >>. Multi-Version Concordance
Cappado'cia (2 Occurrences). ... << Cappadocia, Cappado'cia. Caprice >>. Reference Bible
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Pontus (3 Occurrences)
... The name was geographical, not ethnical, in origin, and was first used to designate
that part of Cappadocia which bordered on the "Pontus," as the Euxine was ...
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Lycaonia (2 Occurrences)
... Easton's Bible Dictionary An inland province of Asia Minor, on the west of
Cappadocia and the south of Galatia. It was a Roman province ...
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Gomer (7 Occurrences)
... nations. One division moved eastward toward Media, another westward, where
they conquered Cappadocia and made it their special abode. ...
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Arathes
... a-ra'-thez (the King James Version Araiarthes; Arathes; Ariarathes): King of Cappadocia,
163-130 BC Educated in Rome, he imbibed Roman ideas and became a ...
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Amorites (82 Occurrences)
... as well as in the cuneiform Tell el-Amarna Letters, and the Hittite archives recently
discovered at Boghaz-keui, the site of the Hittite capital in Cappadocia. ...
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Hittites (39 Occurrences)
... to have been partly Semitic and partly Mongolic; and the same mixed race is represented
by the Hittite records recently discovered in Cappadocia and Pontus. ...
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Philistines (224 Occurrences)
... In the Septuagint of this passage (and in Amos 9:7) Cappadocia stands for
Caphtor (Kaphtor), and other versions have the same reading. ...
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Assyria (124 Occurrences)
... and gazelles. Horses were imported from Cappadocia; ducks were kept, and
mastiffs were employed in hunting. IV. Population. The ...
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Greek
2587. Kappadokia -- Cappadocia, a province of Asia Minor
... Cappadocia, a province of Asia Minor. Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration:
Kappadokia Phonetic Spelling: (kap-pad-ok-ee'-ah) Short Definition ...
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4899. suneklektos -- chosen together with
... 1 Pet 1:1,2: " 1 To those who reside as aliens, scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia,
Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, , by the sanctifying work of the Spirit ...
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Hitchcock's Bible Names
Cappadocia

the same as Caphtor

ATS Bible Dictionary
Cappadocia

The largest ancient province of Asia Minor; having Pontus on the north, mount Taurus, separating it from Cilicia and Syria, on the south, Galatia on the west, and the Euphrates and Armenia on the east. It was watered by the river Halys, and was noted for its fine pastures and its excellent breed of horses, asses, and sheep. There were many Jews residing in it, Acts 2:9. Christianity was early introduced there, 1 Peter 1:1, among a people proverbial for dullness, faithlessness, and vice. See CRETE. Several celebrated Christian fathers flourished in this province, as Basil and the three Gregories; and their churches may be traced as late as the tenth century.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
CAPPADOCIA

kap-a-do'-shi-a (he Kappadokia): An extensive province in eastern Asia Minor, bounded by the Taurus mountains on the South, the Anti-Taurus and the Euphrates on the East, and, less definitely, by Pontus and Galatia on the North and West. Highest mountain, Argaeus, over 13,000 ft. above sea-level; chief rivers, the Pyramus now Jihan, Sarus now Sihon, and Halys now the Kuzul; most important cities, Caesarea Mazaca, Comana, Miletene now Malatia, and Tyana now Bor. At Malatia the country unrolls itself as a fertile plain; elsewhere the province is for the most part composed of billowy and rather barren uplands, and bleak mountain peaks and pastures.

The Greek geographers called Cappodax the son of Ninyas, thereby tracing the origin of Cappadocian culture to Assyria. Cuneiform tablets from Kul Tepe (Kara Eyuk), deciphered by Professors Pinches and Sayce, show that in the era of Khammurabi (see HAMMURABI) this extensive ruin on the ox-bow of the Halys and near Caesarea Mazaca, was an outpost of the Assyr-Bah Empire. A Hittite civilization followed, from about 2000 B.C. onward. Malatia, Gurun, Tyana and other old sites contain important and undoubted Hittite remains, while sporadic examples of Hittite art, architecture and inscriptions are found in many places, and the number is being steadily increased by fresh discovery. After the Hittites fade from sight, following the fall of Carchemish, about 718 B.C., Cappadocia emerges as a satrapy of Persia. At the time of Alexander the Great it received a top-dressing of Greek culture, and a line of native kings established an independent throne, which lasted until Cappadocia was incorporated in the Roman Empire, 17 A.D. Nine rulers bore the name of Ariarathes (the Revised Version (British and American) Arathes) the founder of the dynasty, and two were named Ariobarzanes. One of these kings is referred to in 1 Maccabees 15:22. The history of this Cappadocian kingdom is involved, obscure and bloody.

Pagan religion had a deep hold upon the population prior to the advent of Christianity. Comana was famous for its worship of the great goddess Ma, who was served, according to Strabo, by 6,000 priestesses, and only second to this was the worship paid to Zeus at Venasa.

Representatives from Cappadocia were present at Pentecost (Acts 2:9), and Peter includes the converts in this province in the address of his letter (1 Peter 1:1). Caesarea became one of the most important early centers of Christianity. Here the Armenian youth of noble blood, Krikore, or Gregory the Illuminator, was instructed in the faith to which he afterward won the formal assent of his whole nation. Here Basil governed the churches of his wide diocese and organized monasticism. His brother, Gregory of Nyssa, and Gregory Nazianzen, lived and labored not far away. Cappadocia passed with the rest of Asia Minor into the Byzantine Empire, but from its exposed position early fell under the domination of the Turks, having been conquered by the Seljukians in 1074.

G. E. White

Easton's Bible Dictionary
The easternmost and the largest province of Asia Minor. Christianity very early penetrated into this country (1 Peter 1:1). On the day of Pentecost there were Cappadocians at Jerusalem (Acts 2:9).

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Cappadocia

Cappadocia: The Easternmost Province of Asia Minor

Cappadocians Cappadocia

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