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Asians, people from the Roman province of Asia (western Asia Minor)
This term identifies people from the Roman province of Asia, roughly modern-day western Turkey, which included important cities like Ephesus, Smyrna, and Pergamum. In Acts, 'Asians' refers to members of Paul's traveling party who accompanied him from this region. The province of Asia was one of Rome's wealthiest and most cultured, home to significant early Christian communities addressed in Revelation's seven letters.
Senses
1. sense 1 — Acts 20:4 lists several 'Asians' (Spanish 'asiáticos,' French 'Asiatique') who traveled with Paul, including Tychicus and Trophimus. These representatives from the province of Asia accompanied Paul as he carried the collection for Jerusalem's poor. Their presence demonstrated the geographic spread of Paul's mission and the unity of Gentile churches with the mother church, as believers from Asia Minor partnered in supporting Jewish Christians. 1×
AR["وَمِنَ-الْآسِيَوِيِّينَ"]·ben["এশিয়ার"]·DE["Ἀσιανοὶ"]·EN["Asianoi"]·FR["Asiatique"]·heb["אַסְיָנִים"]·HI["आसिया-के"]·ID["orang-Asia"]·IT["Asiatico"]·jav["tiyang-Asia"]·KO["아시아의"]·PT["asiáticos"]·RU["Асийцы"]·ES["asiáticos"]·SW["wa-Asia"]·TR["Asyalılardan"]·urd["ایشیائیوں-میں-سے"]
Related Senses
H5971a 1. people, nation (1836×)H5973a 1. accompaniment, together with (956×)H0854 1. with (accompaniment) (665×)H1471a 1. nations, peoples (plural/collective) (466×)G3326 1. with (368×)H1285 1. covenant, pact, treaty (284×)G2453 1. Jewish person, Jew (194×)H4150 1. meeting (tent of meeting) (151×)G2992 1. people/nation (an ethnic or political community) (142×)G4862 1. (129×)G1484 1. Gentiles, non-Jewish nations (128×)H1471a 2. nation, people-group (singular) (98×)H3162b 1. together (97×)H1616 1. sojourner, resident alien (92×)H0567 1. Amorite (people group) (87×)H3064 1. Jew, Jewish person (81×)H3669a 1. Canaanite (ethnic designation) (70×)G1122 1. scribe / expert in the Law (63×)H2114a 1. stranger, foreigner (person) (54×)H5608b 1. scribe, royal secretary (48×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
Asiatic , Refs 5th c.BC, etc. also Ἀσιάτης, feminine Ἀσιᾶτις, Ionic Ἀσιήτης Ἀσιῆτις, 6th/5th c.BC, Refs 5th c.BC (Middle Liddel)