Bible Names

Bithynia: meaning of the name

Bithynia means “violent precipitation.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Bithynia in Hebrew and Greek

Βιθυνία G978

Bithynía — Bithynia, a region of Asia

of uncertain derivation;

Places named Bithynia

Bithynia in Scripture

“Bithynia” appears in 2 verses of the King James Version.

  • Acts 16:7

    After they were come to Mysia, they assayed to go into Bithynia: but the Spirit suffered them not.

  • 1 Peter 1:1

    Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,