Bible Names

Apollonia: meaning of the name

Apollonia means “perdition, destruction.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Apollonia in Hebrew and Greek

Ἀπολλωνία G624

Apollōnía — from G622 (ἀπόλλυμι)); Apollonia, a place in Macedonia

from the pagan deity (i.e. the sun;

Places named Apollonia

Apollonia in Scripture

“Apollonia” appears in 1 verse of the King James Version.

  • Acts 17:1

    Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where was a synagogue of the Jews: