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Mysia
Open directlyEaston's Bible Dictionary · 1897
A province in the north-west of Asia Minor. On his first voyage to Europe (Acts 16:7, 8) Paul passed through this province and embarked at its chief port Troas.
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Smith's Bible Dictionary · 1863
(land of beech trees) (Acts 16:7,8) was the region about the frontier of the provinces of Asia and Bithynia. The term is evidently used in an ethnological, not a political, sense.
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Hastings Dictionary of the Bible · 1898
MY'SIA (beech region ?), a province in the north-western angle of Asia Minor, and separated from Europe by the Propontis and the Hellespont, having Lydia on the south, Bithynia on the east, and including the Troad. Mysia was anciently celebrated for its fertility, and it is at this day a beautiful and fertile country, but poorly tilled. Acts 16:7-8; Acts 20:5.
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Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · 1869
criminal; abominable
Schaff's Dictionary of the Bible · 1880
MY'SIA (beech region ?), a province in the north-western angle of Asia Minor, and separated from Europe by the Propontis and the Hellespont, having Lydia on the south, Bithynia on the east, and including the Troad. Mysia was anciently celebrated for its fertility, and it is at this day a beautiful and fertile country, but poorly tilled. Acts 16:7-8; Acts 20:5.