Places
Explore the cities, regions, mountains, rivers, and nations mentioned throughout Scripture. Understand their historical setting, geographical significance, and role in biblical events.
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Phoenicia
Phoenicia was an ancient coastal civilization famed for maritime trade, cedar wood, and purple dye. In Scripture, its city-states of Tyre and Sidon in...
Phoenix
Phoenix was a sheltered harbour on the southern coast of Crete mentioned in Acts 27. During Apostle Paul's voyage to Rome, the ship's crew attempted t...
Phrygia
Phrygia was an ancient inland region of central Asia Minor whose inhabitants were present at Pentecost in Jerusalem. It served as a vital arena for th...
Pi-hahiroth
Pi-hahiroth was the ancient Egyptian encampment site where the Israelites pitched their tents before God miraculously parted the Red Sea. Located near...
Pishon River
The Pishon River is one of four ancient rivers described in Genesis 2 as branching from the river watering Eden. It wound through Havilah, a region re...
Pisidian Antioch
Pisidian Antioch was an influential Roman colony in southern Asia Minor where the Apostle Paul preached his first recorded synagogue sermon in Acts 13...
Place from which the Beast rises
In the Book of Revelation, the beasts emerge from symbolic locations including the sea, the abyss, and the earth. These origins signify cosmic chaos,...
Place where Satan is confined
Scripture describes specific places where Satan and evil spirits are bound and punished, including the Abyss, gloomy dungeons, and the Lake of Fire, h...
Plains of Moab
The Plains of Moab refer to the region east of the Jordan River, opposite Jericho, where Israel encamped before entering Canaan. Here Moses delivered...
Plateau of Bashan
The Plateau of Bashan is a fertile high tableland located east of the River Jordan and north of Gilead. Renowned in Scripture for its rich pastures, m...
Plateau of Benjamin
The Plateau of Benjamin is a critical geographic region in the central highlands of ancient Israel. Situated directly north of Jerusalem, this elevate...
Plateau of Edom
The Plateau of Edom, historically known as Mount Seir, is a high, rugged highland region situated southeast of the Dead Sea. Settled by Esau and his d...
Plateau of Gilead
The Plateau of Gilead is a mountainous and highly fertile region east of the Jordan River, celebrated in Scripture for its rich pasturelands, dense oa...
Plateau of Moab
The Plateau of Moab is an elevated tableland east of the Dead Sea, prominent in biblical history as the territory of the Moabites, the staging ground...
Pontus
Pontus was an ancient coastal region in north-eastern Asia Minor along the Black Sea. Mentioned in Acts and 1 Peter, it was home to Jewish pilgrims pr...
Pool of Bethesda
The Pool of Bethesda, located near Jerusalem's Sheep Gate, is famous for Jesus healing a man paralyzed for thirty-eight years in John 5. Archaeologica...
Pool of Gibeon
The Pool of Gibeon is an ancient rock-cut reservoir located at el-Jib, north-west of Jerusalem. Mentioned in the Old Testament, it was the site of a t...
Pool of Hebron
The Pool of Hebron was a prominent ancient civic reservoir in Judah, famous in Scripture as the location where King David administered public justice...
Pool of Heshbon
The Pool of Heshbon, referenced in the Song of Solomon, denotes the serene and clear water reservoirs of ancient Heshbon in Transjordan. Renowned for...
Pool of Samaria
The Pool of Samaria was a prominent royal reservoir in the capital of the northern kingdom of Israel. It is renowned as the site where King Ahab's blo...
Pool of Siloam
The Pool of Siloam is a historic water reservoir in Jerusalem fed by the Gihon Spring via Hezekiah's Tunnel. Prominently featured in John 9, it is the...
Potter's Field
The Potter's Field, also known as Akeldama or the Field of Blood, is a plot of land in Jerusalem purchased with the thirty pieces of silver returned b...
Praetorium of Pilate
The Praetorium of Pilate was the judicial headquarters and residence of the Roman governor in Jerusalem. It was the crucial location where Pontius Pil...
Prison of demonic powers
The prison of demonic powers refers to the spiritual realm of confinement where rebellious angelic beings and fallen spirits are held under divine jud...
