Bible Names

Asia: meaning of the name

Asia means “muddy; boggy.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Asia in Hebrew and Greek

Ἀσία G773

Asía — Asia, i.e. Asia Minor, or (usually) only its western shore

of uncertain derivation;

Places named Asia

Asia in Scripture

“Asia” appears in 20 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

  • Acts 2:9

    Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia,

  • Acts 6:9

    Then there arose certain of the synagogue, which is called the synagogue of the Libertines, and Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, and of them of Cilicia and of Asia, disputing with Stephen.

  • Acts 16:6

    Now when they had gone throughout Phrygia and the region of Galatia, and were forbidden of the Holy Ghost to preach the word in Asia,

  • Acts 19:10

    And this continued by the space of two years; so that all they which dwelt in Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks.

  • Acts 19:22

    So he sent into Macedonia two of them that ministered unto him, Timotheus and Erastus; but he himself stayed in Asia for a season.

  • Acts 19:26

    Moreover ye see and hear, that not alone at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul hath persuaded and turned away much people, saying that they be no gods, which are made with hands:

  • Acts 19:27

    So that not only this our craft is in danger to be set at nought; but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana should be despised, and her magnificence should be destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worshippeth.

  • Acts 19:31

    And certain of the chief of Asia, which were his friends, sent unto him, desiring him that he would not adventure himself into the theatre.