Bible Names

Cappadocia: meaning of the name

Cappadocia means “the same as Caphtor.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Cappadocia in Hebrew and Greek

Καππαδοκία G2587

Kappadokía — Cappadocia, a region of Asia Minor

of foreign origin;

Places named Cappadocia

Cappadocia in Scripture

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

  • Acts 2:9

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

  • 1 Peter 1:1

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