Bible Names

Phrygia: meaning of the name

Phrygia means “dry; barren.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Phrygia in Hebrew and Greek

Φρυγία G5435

Phrygía — Phrygia, a region of Asia Minor

probably of foreign origin;

Places named Phrygia

Phrygia in Scripture

“Phrygia” appears in 4 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 16:6

    Now when they had gone throughout Phrygia and the region of Galatia, and were forbidden of the Holy Ghost to preach the word in Asia,

  • Acts 18:23

    And after he had spent some time there, he departed, and went over all the country of Galatia and Phrygia in order, strengthening all the disciples.

  • 1 Timothy 6:21

    Which some professing have erred concerning the faith. Grace be with thee. Amen. The first to Timothy was written from Laodicea, which is the chiefest city of Phrygia Pacatiana.