Bible Location
Meaning: grief; trouble · 10 cross references · Modern-day map available
Achaia was the Roman province covering southern Greece in the New Testament world. It is important because it included cities such as Corinth and became one of the principal regions of Paul's ministry and early church life. First appears in Acts 18:12.1
Place meaning
grief; trouble
Coordinates
37.50, 22.50
First appears
Acts 18:12
AI summary: Achaia is significant in the New Testament because it names the southern Greek province in which major Christian communities formed. Paul's work there, especially around Corinth, gives Achaia an important place in missionary travel, teaching, and the growth of Gentile churches. It is often paired conceptually with Macedonia, together marking the Christian expansion into Greece. The cross references present Achaia as a major provincial setting for apostolic ministry and church development.1
Place meaning
grief; trouble
Latitude
37.50
Longitude
22.50
Bible references
10
The name originally of a narrow strip of territory in Greece, on the north-west of the Peloponnesus. Subsequently it was applied by the Romans to the whole Peloponnesus, now called the Morea, and the south of Greece. It was then one of the two provinces (Macedonia being the other) into which they divided the country when it fell under their dominion. It is in this latter enlarged meaning that the name is always used in the New Testament (Acts 18:12, 27; 19:21; Rom. 15: 26; 16:5, etc.). It was at the time when Luke wrote the Acts of the Apostles under the proconsular form of government; hence the appropriate title given to Gallio as the “deputy,” i.e., proconsul, of Achaia (Acts 18:12). 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Source note: this 1893 dictionary language reflects its period and may be culturally insensitive or outdated.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.
| Book | Cross-References |
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Figure1: A table of cross references between the selected passage and other passages (Data from Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.)
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.