Bible Names

Thessalonica: meaning of the name

Thessalonica means “victory against the Thessalians.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Thessalonica in Hebrew and Greek

Θεσσαλονίκη G2332

Thessaloníkē — Thessalonice, a place in Asia Minor

from (a Thessalian) and G3529 (νίκη);

Places named Thessalonica

Thessalonica in Scripture

“Thessalonica” appears in 6 verses of the King James Version.

  • Acts 17:1

    Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where was a synagogue of the Jews:

  • Acts 17:11

    These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.

  • Acts 17:13

    But when the Jews of Thessalonica had knowledge that the word of God was preached of Paul at Berea, they came thither also, and stirred up the people.

  • Acts 27:2

    And entering into a ship of Adramyttium, we launched, meaning to sail by the coasts of Asia; one Aristarchus, a Macedonian of Thessalonica, being with us.

  • Philippians 4:16

    For even in Thessalonica ye sent once and again unto my necessity.

  • 2 Timothy 4:10

    For Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is departed unto Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia.