Bible Names

Pergamos: meaning of the name

Pergamos means “height; elevation.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Pergamos in Hebrew and Greek

Πέργαμος G4010

Pérgamos — fortified; Pergamus, a place in Asia Minor

from G4444 (πύργος);

Pergamos in Scripture

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

  • Revelation 1:11

    Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven churches which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea.

  • Revelation 2:12

    And to the angel of the church in Pergamos write; These things saith he which hath the sharp sword with two edges;