G4010

Πέργαμος

Pergamos

Proper locative noun · From πύργος (G4444)

From G4444; fortified; Pergamus, a place in Asia Minor:—Pergamos.

Outline

Pergamos = "height or elevation"

a city of Mysia Minor, in Asia Minor, the seat of the dynasties of Attalus and Eumenes, famous for its temple of Aesculapius and the invention and manufacture of parchment. The river Selinus flowed through it and the Cetius ran past it. It was the birthplace of the physician Galen, and had a great royal library. It had a Christian church.

Usages

Revelation 1:11

Saying,

I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last:

and,

What thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven churches which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea.

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Revelation 2:12

And to the angel of the church in Pergamos write; These things saith he which hath the sharp sword with two edges;

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