Bible Names

Pontius: meaning of the name

Pontius means “marine; belonging to the sea.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Pontius in Hebrew and Greek

Πόντιος G4194

Póntios — apparently bridged; Pontius, a Roman

of Latin origin;

Who named Pontius in the Bible

Pontius in Scripture

“Pontius” appears in 4 verses of the King James Version.

  • Matthew 27:2

    And when they had bound him, they led him away, and delivered him to Pontius Pilate the governor.

  • Luke 3:1

    Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Cesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of Iturea and of the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene,

  • Acts 4:27

    For of a truth against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel, were gathered together,

  • 1 Timothy 6:13

    I give thee charge in the sight of God, who quickeneth all things, and before Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate witnessed a good confession;