ephesos names the location where people arrive, remain, depart, serve, and where an assembly is addressed.

The term consistently identifies a location: people come to it, remain there, depart from it, or are sent there; it also marks those living there and the assembly located there. The supplied forms occur in clauses of movement, residence, service, and address rather than showing distinct lexical uses.

1. A named location in travel, residence, and address · dominant

   The accusative singular form marks the destination or place reached in Acts 18:19, where the APB renders, “They arrived in Ephesus,” and in Acts 20:17, where elders are summoned there. The dative singular form occurs with remaining and service in 1 Corinthians 16:8 and 2 Timothy 1:18, while Revelation 2:1 locates an assembly there; the genitive singular in Acts 18:21 appears in departure from the same location.

   Acts 18:19Acts 18:21Acts 20:171 Corinthians 16:82 Timothy 1:18Revelation 2:1

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the supplied verses, the APB regularly presents the term as “Ephesus” in movement, residence, service, and assembly clauses. These renderings confirm the verse-level location reference rather than supplying a separate lexical nuance.