Place · City
Salamis
Named in 1 verse, first in Acts 13:5.
In the Bible
All 1 verse, in Bible order. Text from the Berean Standard Bible; verse numbers follow the KJV.
Acts
- Acts 13:5
When they arrived at Salamis, they proclaimed the word of God in the Jewish synagogues. And John was with them as their helper.
Events here
Events the dataset sets at Salamis. Dates follow its Ussher–Jones reckoning (one of several traditional counts), not established history.
- c. AD 45First Missionary Journey
- no dateBarnabas and Saul go to Cyprus
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
A city on the south-east coast of Cyprus (Acts 13:5), where Saul and Barnabas, on their first missionary journey, preached the word in one of the Jewish synagogues, of which there seem to have been several in that place. It is now called Famagusta.