Salamis

2 definitions found

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Salamis
     a city on the south-east coast of Cyprus (Acts 13:5), where Saul
     and Barnabas, on their first missionary journey, preached the
     word in one of the Jewish synagogues, of which there seem to
     have been several in that place. It is now called Famagusta.
     



From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Salamis, shaken; test; beaten