Elymas

Mentioned in AD 45 traditional (Jones)

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).

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897).

Tagged in: 2 verses

Mentioned in the era of the New Testament, 4 BC to AD 100.

Computed from the data. Years are traditional (Jones).

Family

Two generations up and the children. Gold lines join partners; grey lines run from parent to child; a dotted line marks a parent named in the text but not by descent.

Stories

1 event in which Elymas takes part, in order of the traditional chronology. Years are traditional (Jones).

AD 45Barnabas and Saul go to CyprusActs 13:4-12

Places

Places named in the same verses as Elymas, with the number of verses they share; a larger marker means more. Locations follow OpenBible.info, which grades each identification.

likely location: Paphos1

Timeline

The strip runs from Creation to AD 100; the shaded part, AD 20–70, is drawn below at a larger scale around these mentions. Years are traditional (Jones), shown as recorded, not as settled fact.

Mentions

2 tagged verses in 1 book. Select a book to read its verses.

Acts2

The name in each translation

Text	Occurrences of each name
BSB	Elymas 2
KJV	Elymas 1
ASV	Elymas 1

Whole-word, case-sensitive count of the name string (regex \bName\b, so possessives like "Abraham's" count) across the whole Bible text of each translation; this counts the string, not the person, so other people who share the name are included and pronoun references are not. How Begat counts

Every verse

All 2 tagged verses, by book, in canonical order. The Berean Standard Bible is shown; switch to the King James or American Standard Version.

Acts2 verses

13:6
They traveled through the whole island as far as Paphos, where they found a Jewish sorcerer and false prophet named Bar-Jesus,
13:8
But Elymas the sorcerer (for that is what his name means) opposed them and tried to turn the proconsul from the faith.

Easton’s Bible Dictionary

The full entry, public domain, as printed in 1897.

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).