Ἱεράπολις (WH ἱερά Πόλις; cf. Buttmann, 74; Lob. ad Phryn. 604f), ἱερεαπολεως, ἡ, Hierapolis, a city of Greater Phrygia, near the river Maeander (or rather, near the Lycus a few miles above its junction with the Maeander), not far from Colossae and Laodicea, now Pambuck Kulasi (for references see Lightfoot on Col., p. 1f; B. D. American edition, under the word): Col_4:13.

Ἱεράπολις Hierapolis 1x Hierapolis, a city of Phrygia, Col_4:13 *. See PhotoGuide.

Ἱεράπολις ( WH , Ἱερὰ Πόλις ), -εως , ἡ , Hierapolis : a city in the Lyons valley in the Province of Asia: Col_4:13 .†

Ἱεράπολις [page 299] Schόrer in Hastings DB v. p. 94 cites three Jewish inscrr from Alterthόmer von Hierapolis (in Jahrbuch des deutschcn Archδol. Institute , Ergδnzungsheft iv.), pointing to the presence of a considerable Jewish community in Hierapolis (1) No. 69 a tomb-inscr. closing with the threat : εἰ δὲ μή , ἀποτείσει τῷ λαῷ τον Ἰουδαί [ω ]ν προστε [ί ]μου ὀν [όμ ]ατι δηνάρια χείλια , (2) No. 212 (= Cagnat IV. 834) another tomb-inscr. ending : εἰ δὲ ἔτι ἕτερος κηδεύσει , δώσει τῄ κατοικίᾳ τῶν ἐν Ἱεραπόλει κατο̣ι̣κούντων Ἰουδαίων προστείμου (δηνάρια ) . . καὶ τῷ ἐκζητήσαντι (δηνάρια ) (δισχίλια ) ἀντίγραφον ἀπετέθη ἐν τῷ ἀρχίῳ τῶν Ἰουδαίων , and (3) No. 342 (= C. and B. ii. p. 545) an inscr. in memory of a certain Publius Aelius Glykon, who bequeathed to the managing body of purple-dyers (τῇ σεμνοτάτῃ προεδρίᾳ τῶν πορφυραβάφων ) a capital sum, the interest of which was to be applied yearly ἐν τῇ ἑορτῇ τῶν Ἀζύμων to decorate his tomb. Cf. Ramsay Exp VI. v. p. 95ff., and see the same writer s C. and B. ii. p. 679 ff. for Hieropolis as the local form of the city s name. On the separation into Ἱερᾷ Πόλει in Col_4:13 (cf. Act_16:11 ), see Moulton Gr , ii. § 61 (b).

Ἱεράπολις (WH, Ἱερὰ Πόλις), -εως, ἡ Hierapolis: a city in the Lyons valley in the Province of Asia: Col.4:13.† (AS)