Bible Names

Iconium: meaning of the name

Iconium means “coming.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Iconium in Hebrew and Greek

Ἰκόνιον G2430

Ikónion — image-like; Iconium, a place in Asia Minor

perhaps from G1504 (εἰκών);

Places named Iconium

Iconium in Scripture

“Iconium” appears in 6 verses of the King James Version.

  • Acts 13:51

    But they shook off the dust of their feet against them, and came unto Iconium.

  • Acts 14:1

    And it came to pass in Iconium, that they went both together into the synagogue of the Jews, and so spake, that a great multitude both of the Jews and also of the Greeks believed.

  • Acts 14:19

    And there came thither certain Jews from Antioch and Iconium, who persuaded the people, and, having stoned Paul, drew him out of the city, supposing he had been dead.

  • Acts 14:21

    And when they had preached the gospel to that city, and had taught many, they returned again to Lystra, and to Iconium, and Antioch,

  • Acts 16:2

    Which was well reported of by the brethren that were at Lystra and Iconium.

  • 2 Timothy 3:11

    Persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured: but out of them all the Lord delivered me.