Bible Location
Meaning: myrrh · 2 cross references · Modern-day map available
Smyrna was one of the seven churches of Revelation on the Aegean coast. It is important because it is addressed as a suffering church called to faithful endurance. First appears in Rev 1:11.1
Place meaning
myrrh
Coordinates
38.45, 27.16
First appears
Rev 1:11
AI summary: Smyrna matters because Revelation honors believers facing hardship without offering them easy relief. The church is warned of suffering and urged to remain faithful even to death. The cross references present Smyrna as a city of affliction, endurance, and promised vindication.1
Place meaning
myrrh
Latitude
38.45
Longitude
27.16
Bible references
2
Myrrh, an ancient city of Ionia, on the western coast of Asia Minor, about 40 miles to the north of Ephesus. It is now the chief city of Anatolia, having a mixed population of about 200,000, of whom about one-third are professed Christians. The church founded here was one of the seven addressed by our Lord (Rev. 2:8-11). The celebrated Polycarp, a pupil of the apostle John, was in the second century a prominent leader in the church of Smyrna. Here he suffered martyrdom, A.D. 155. 3
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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.