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City: Smyrna/Izmir
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1. City: Smyrna/Izmir
The Greek city of Smyrna in Asia Minor is one of the church cities in Revelation in the Letters to the Seven Churches. The ancient Greek town name "Σμύρνη""Smyrna". Today, the Turkish name for the city "Smyrna" is "Izmir" (since 1930).

The name appears to be related to "myrrh" which was a main export of the city in earlier times.

2. Seven Letters
In Revelation, the church of Smyrna is after Ephesus and before Pergamus.

3. Seven Churches in Revelation
Verse routeRevelation 1:11 Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven churches which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea. [kjv]
Verse routeλεγουσης ο βλεπεις γραψον εις βιβλιον και πεμψον ταις επτα εκκλησιαις εις εφεσον και εις σμυρναν και εις περγαμον και εις θυατειρα και εις σαρδεις και εις φιλαδελφειαν και εις λαοδικειαν [gnt]

The seven letters to the seven churches of Revelation were written, from Jesus through John, to actual churches in Asia Minor (western Turkey today).



Information sign More: Revelation 1:4-11 Seven Churches in Revelation

4. Smyrna in the United States
There is a small town called Smyrna in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, zip code 17509, in West Salisbury Township, a few miles south of Gap, PA.

There is a larger town called Smyrna in Georgia.

5. Letter to the church
Smyrna is the second of seven cities to which a church received a letter in Revelation.

6. Revelation 2:8
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KJV: And unto the angel of the church in Smyrna write; These things saith the first and the last, which was dead, and is alive;
Greek: και τω αγγελω της τω εν σμυρνη εκκλησιας σμυρναιων γραψον ταδε λεγει ο πρωτος και ο εσχατος ος εγενετο νεκρος και εζησεν
Latin: et angelo Zmyrnae ecclesiae scribe haec dicit primus et novissimus qui fuit mortuus et vivit

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