Bible Location
Meaning: abounding with calves or heifers · 4 cross references · Modern-day map available
Italy is the broader Roman homeland and peninsula increasingly central to New Testament travel and communication. It is important because it frames the movement of people between the eastern Mediterranean churches and Rome's wider world. First appears in Acts 18:2.1
Place meaning
abounding with calves or heifers
Coordinates
42.79, 12.08
First appears
Acts 18:2
AI summary: Italy enters Scripture as a broader destination and sphere rather than a single narrative city. Acts uses it when Paul is sent toward Rome, and earlier references show people arriving from or moving through the Italian world. Hebrews also reflects an existing community connection tied to Italy. The cross references present Italy as the western Roman setting toward which apostolic journeys, correspondence, and Christian networks increasingly extended.1
Place meaning
abounding with calves or heifers
Latitude
42.79
Longitude
12.08
Bible references
4
Acts 18:2; 27:1, 6; Heb. 13:24), like most geographical names, was differently used at different periods of history. As the power of Rome advanced, nations were successively conquered and added to it till it came to designate the whole country to the south of the Alps. There was constant intercourse between Palestine and Italy in the time of the Romans. 3
Source note: this 1893 dictionary language reflects its period and may be culturally insensitive or outdated. It is presented as historical source material, not as ai-BIBLE’s language, interpretation, or endorsement.
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, place metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.