[pon-tuh
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| 1. | an ancient country in NE Asia Minor, bordering on the Black Sea: later a Roman province. |
| 2. | Also, Pon⋅tos [pon-tos] . the ancient Greek personification of the sea. |
| Pon·tus (pŏn'təs) An ancient country of northeast Asia Minor along the southern coast of the Black Sea. Established in the fourth century B.C., it flourished under Mithridates VI until his defeat by Pompey of Rome in 66. Pon'tic (-tĭk) adj. |
Pontus
a province of Asia Minor, stretching along the southern coast of the Euxine Sea, corresponding nearly to the modern province of Trebizond. In the time of the apostles it was a Roman province. Strangers from this province were at Jerusalem at Pentecost (Acts 2:9), and to "strangers scattered throughout Pontus," among others, Peter addresses his first epistle (1 Pet. 1:1). It was evidently the resort of many Jews of the Dispersion. Aquila was a native of Pontus (Acts 18:2).