Strong#: | 5019 // Tarsov Tarsos |
Orig: | n pr loc // perhaps the same as tarsos (a flat basket) |
NASB: | ==>Tarsus(3). |
AV=3 | ==>Tarsus 3 |
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Definition: | Tarsus = "a flat basket"
1) a major city in Cilicia and the birthplace and early home of Paul.
\\#Ac 9:11; 21:39; 22:3\\. Even in the flourishing period of Greek
history it was an important city. In the Roman civil wars, it
sided with Caesar and on the occasion of a visit from him its name
changed to Juliopolis. Augustus made it a free city. Its was
renowned as a place of education under the early Roman emperors.
Strabo compares it in this respect to Athens and Alexandria.
Tarsus also was a place of much commerce. It was situated in a
wild and fertile plain on the banks of the Cydnus. No ruins of any
importance remain.
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NASB: | Tarsus, a city of Cilicia: |
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