Place · City
Iconium
Named in 6 verses across 2 books, first in 2 Timothy 3:11.
In the Bible
All 1 verse in 2 Timothy, in Bible order. Text from the Berean Standard Bible; verse numbers follow the KJV.
2 Timothy
- 2 Timothy 3:11
my persecutions, and the sufferings that came upon me in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. What persecutions I endured! Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them.
Events here
Events the dataset sets at Iconium. Dates follow its Ussher–Jones reckoning (one of several traditional counts), not established history.
- c. AD 45First Missionary Journey
- no dateMission to Antioch in Pisidia
- no dateMission to Iconium
- no dateReturn to Antioch in Syria
Dictionary
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), as attached to this record by Theographic. Its geography and “modern” descriptions date from the 1890s. Easton wrote in 1897, and some of his views are now debated.
Read Easton’s entry
The capital of ancient Lycaonia. It was first visited by Paul and Barnabas from Antioch-in-Pisidia during the apostle’s first missionary journey (Acts 13:50, 51). Here they were persecuted by the Jews, and being driven from the city, they fled to Lystra. They afterwards returned to Iconium, and encouraged the church which had been founded there (14:21, 22). It was probably again visited by Paul during his third missionary journey along with Silas (18:23). It is the modern Konieh, at the foot of Mount Taurus, about 120 miles inland from the Mediterranean.