Word Summary
Pontos: "a sea", Pontus, a region of Asia Minor
Original Word: ΠόντοςTransliteration: Pontos
Phonetic Spelling: (pon'-tos)
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Short Definition: "a sea", Pontus, a region of Asia Minor
Meaning: Pontus -- "a sea", a region of Asia Minor
Strong's Concordance
Pontus.
A sea; Pontus, a region of Asia Minor -- Pontus.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 4195: ΠόντοςΠόντος,
Πόντου,
ὁ,
Pontus, a region of eastern Asia Minor, bounded by the Euxine Sea (from which circumstance it took its name), Armenia, Cappadocia, Galatia, Paphlagonia (
BB. DD., under the word; Ed. Meyer, Gesch. d. Königreiches Pontos (Leip. 1879)):
Acts 2:9;
1 Peter 1:1.