5019 Tarsos {tar-sos'} perhaps the same as tarsos (a flat basket);; n pr loc AV - Tarsus 3; 3 Tarsus = "a flat basket" 1) a major city in Cilicia and the birthplace and early home of Paul. Acts 9:11; 21:39; 22:3. Even in the flourishing period of Greek history it was an important city. In the Roman civil wars, it sided with Caesar and on the occasion of a visit from him its name changed to Juliopolis. Augustus made it a free city. Its was renowned as a place of education under the early Roman emperors. Strabo compares it in this respect to Athens and Alexandria. Tarsus also was a place of much commerce. It was situated in a wild and fertile plain on the banks of the Cydnus. No ruins of any importance remain.
Transliterated: Tarsos Phonetic: tar-sos'
Text: perhaps the same as tarsos (a flat basket); Tarsus, a place in Asia Minor:
KJV --Tarsus.
Found 3 references in the New Testament Bible
徒9:30
[和合]
弟兄们知道了就送他下该撒利亚,打发他往大数去。
[KJV]
Which when the brethren knew, they brought him down to Caesarea, and sent him forth to Tarsus.
I am verily a man which am a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers, and was zealous toward God, as ye all are this day.