Bible Person
Meaning: a magician · Male · 2 cross references
Elymas is the Greek or interpretive name attached to Bar-Jesus, the magician who opposes Paul and Barnabas in Cyprus. He belongs to one of the earliest confrontations between apostolic mission and intentional spiritual resistance in Acts. First appears in Acts 13:8.1
AI summary: Elymas matters because the cross references place him in direct opposition to the gospel before a Roman official at a key turning point in mission to the Gentile world. His attempt to turn the proconsul away is met with prophetic judgment, showing the authority of the apostolic message over manipulative spiritual power. Taken together, the material presents Elymas as an opponent whose blinding underscores the triumph of the gospel over deceitful resistance.1
Central Figure
Elymas
Meaning: a magician
Magician or sorcerer, the Arabic name of the Jew Bar-jesus, who withstood Paul and Barnabas in Cyprus.
Magician or sorcerer, the Arabic name of the Jew Bar-jesus, who withstood Paul and Barnabas in Cyprus. He was miraculously struck with blindness (Acts 13:11). 3
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, person 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.