Bible Names

Pamphylia: meaning of the name

Pamphylia means “a nation made up of every tribe.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Pamphylia in Hebrew and Greek

Παμφυλία G3828

Pamphylía — every-tribal, i.e. heterogeneous (G5561 (χώρα) being implied); Pamphylia, a region of Asia Minor

from a compound of G3956 (πᾶς) and G4443 (πυρά);

Places named Pamphylia

Pamphylia in Scripture

“Pamphylia” appears in 5 verses of the King James Version.

  • Acts 2:10

    Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews and proselytes,

  • Acts 13:13

    Now when Paul and his company loosed from Paphos, they came to Perga in Pamphylia: and John departing from them returned to Jerusalem.

  • Acts 14:24

    And after they had passed throughout Pisidia, they came to Pamphylia.

  • Acts 15:38

    But Paul thought not good to take him with them, who departed from them from Pamphylia, and went not with them to the work.

  • Acts 27:5

    And when we had sailed over the sea of Cilicia and Pamphylia, we came to Myra, a city of Lycia.