Bible Names

Pontus: meaning of the name

Pontus means “the sea.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Pontus in Hebrew and Greek

Πόντος G4195

Póntos — a sea; Pontus, a region of Asia Minor

of Latin origin;

Places named Pontus

Pontus in Scripture

“Pontus” appears in 3 verses of the King James Version.

  • Acts 2:9

    Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia,

  • Acts 18:2

    And found a certain Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus, lately come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla; (because that Claudius had commanded all Jews to depart from Rome:) and came unto them.

  • 1 Peter 1:1

    Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,