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== Smith's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_74423" /> == | == Smith's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_74423" /> == | ||
<p> Pheni'ce. Acts 27:12. (More properly Phoenix, as it is translated in the Revised Version). The name of a haven in | <p> Pheni'ce. Acts 27:12. (More properly Phoenix, as it is translated in the Revised Version). The name of a haven in Crete on the south coast. The name was no doubt derived from the Greek word for the palm tree, which [[Theophrastus]] says was indigenous in the island. It is the modern Lutro. See Phoenice; Phoenicia. </p> | ||
== People's Dictionary of the Bible <ref name="term_70646" /> == | == People's Dictionary of the Bible <ref name="term_70646" /> == | ||
<p> [[Phenice]] (fe-nî'se or fç'nice). 1. | <p> [[Phenice]] (fe-nî'se or fç'nice). 1. Another and more accurate form for Phœnicia. Acts 11:19; Acts 15:3, A. V. See Phœnicia. 2. A town and harbor, more properly Phœnix (from the Greek word for the palm tree which was indigenous to Crete). Acts 27:12. The town was on the southwest coast of the island of Crete. </p> | ||
== Morrish Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_68181" /> == | == Morrish Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_68181" /> == | ||
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== American Tract Society Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_16951" /> == | == American Tract Society Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_16951" /> == | ||
<p> A city near the south coast of Crete, having a harbor, now called Lutro, opening to the southeast. Paul, on his voyage to | <p> A city near the south coast of Crete, having a harbor, now called Lutro, opening to the southeast. Paul, on his voyage to Rome from Caesarea, was unable to made this port, Acts 27:12 . </p> | ||
== Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary <ref name="term_48575" /> == | == Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary <ref name="term_48575" /> == | ||
<p> A place where the apostle | <p> A place where the apostle Paul anchored. (Acts 27:12) </p> | ||
== Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament <ref name="term_56847" /> == | == Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament <ref name="term_56847" /> == | ||
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== Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblial Literature <ref name="term_16474" /> == | == Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblial Literature <ref name="term_16474" /> == | ||
<p> Pheni´ce, a city on the south-east of Crete, with a harbor, in the attempt to reach which the ship in which | <p> Pheni´ce, a city on the south-east of Crete, with a harbor, in the attempt to reach which the ship in which Paul voyaged as a prisoner to Rome, was driven out of its course, and eventually wrecked . </p> | ||
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