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== [[American]] [[Tract]] [[Society]] [[Bible]] [[Dictionary]] == <p> A city of Macedonia, not far from [[Pella]] towards the southwest, and near Mount Bermius. It was afterwards called Irenopolis, and is now called by the Turks, Boor; by others, Cara Veria. [[Paul]] preached the gospel here with success; the ingenuous [[Bereans]] examined his doctrine by the Old [[Testament]] scriptures, and many believed, Acts 17:10,14; 20:4 . </p> == Bridgeway Bible Dictionary == <p> Paul, accompanied by Silas, first visited [[Berea]] on his second missionary journey (Acts 17:10). The town was in the province of [[Macedonia]] in northern Greece, on the main road from [[Thessalonica]] in the north to [[Athens]] in the south. (For map of the region see ACTS, BOOK OF.) </p> <p> The [[Jews]] of the local synagogue, unlike many of the Jews Paul met on his travels, were prepared to listen to Paul’s teaching and test it against the Scriptures. As a result, many believed. However, Paul was forced to leave the young church when Jews from neighbouring Thessalonica forced him out of the town (Acts 17:11-14). Paul most likely revisited Berea on his third missionary journey (Acts 20:1-2). A representative from the Berean church joined his party to take an offering from the [[Greek]] churches to the poor [[Christians]] in [[Jerusalem]] (Acts 20:4; Romans 15:26; 2 Corinthians 8:1-4; 2 Corinthians 9:1-4). </p> == Easton's Bible Dictionary == Acts 17:10,13Acts 20:4 == Fausset's Bible Dictionary == <p> A city of Macedon, whither Paul withdrew, with [[Silas]] and Timothy, at his first visit to Europe, from [[Jewish]] persecution at Thessalonica, whence also, when the persecutors followed him from Thessalonica, he retired seawards to proceed to Athens (Acts 17:10-15). The Berean Jews were "more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word (preached) with all readiness of mind (not in a cavilling, critical spirit), and (yet not in a credulous spirit, for they) searched the [[Scriptures]] daily whether those things were so." (See Isaiah 8:20; John 5:39; Galatians 1:8-9.) The result was necessarily, "many believed; also of honorable women, which were Greeks, and of men not a few." </p> <p> Sopater, or Sosipater, one of them, became Paul's missionary companion (Acts 20:4; Romans 16:21) in returning to [[Asia]] from his second visit to Europe, where he had been with him at Corinth. Now Verria, or Kara-verria, commanding a wide view of the plain of the Axius and Haliacmon; one of the most pleasant towns of Roumelia, with 20,000 inhabitants. One of the two roads from Thessalonica to Berea passed by Pella. A road led from Berea to Dium, whence probably Paul sailed to Athens, leaving Silas and Timothy behind. </p> == Holman Bible Dictionary == Acts 17:10Acts 20:4 == Hitchcock's Bible [[Names]] == == Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible == <p> <strong> BEREA </strong> ( 1Ma 9:4 ). See BerÅ“a, <strong> 3 </strong> . </p> == Morrish Bible Dictionary == <p> City of Macedonia, visited by Paul, where he found some Jews who were more noble than those of Thessalonica, inasmuch as they tested by the scriptures what Paul preached: to which is added "therefore many of them believed." [[Sopater]] was of this city. It is now called <i> [[Kara]] Verria, </i> on the eastern slope of the [[Olympian]] range. Acts 17:10,13; Acts 20:4 . </p> == People's Dictionary of the Bible == <p> Berea (be-rç'ah). A city of Macedonia, Acts 17:10-13 (Berœa in R. V.), on the eastern side of the Olympian mountains; now Verria, with a population of about 6000. </p> == Watson's [[Biblical]] & [[Theological]] Dictionary == <p> a city of Macedonia, where St. Paul preached the [[Gospel]] with great success, and where his hearers were careful to compare what they heard with the scriptures of the Old Testament, Acts 17:10; for which they are commended, and held out to us as an example of subjecting every doctrine to the sole test of the word of God. </p> == [[International]] Standard Bible [[Encyclopedia]] == <p> '''''be''''' -'''''rē´a''''' . See Bercea </p> <p> Bereave; Bereaver; [[Bereft]] </p> <p> '''''bē̇''''' -'''''rēv''''' ´, '''''bē̇''''' -'''''rēv´ẽr''''' , '''''bē̇''''' -'''''reft''''' ´: [[Bereave]] is frequently used in the Old Testament in the (now almost obsolete) meaning of "to deprive," "to take away," especially with reference to loss of children. The [[Hebrew]] word used here is שכל , <i> '''''shākhōl''''' </i> , "to be childless," or in the Piel "to make childless" (compare [[Genesis]] 42:36 et al.). In the King James Version Ecclesiastes 4:8 (from the Hebrew חסר , <i> '''''ḥāṣēr''''' </i> , "to lack") we read "and bereave my soul of good" (the [[Revised]] Version (British and American) "deprive"), and in Ezekiel 36:14 (from Hebrew כּשׁל , <i> '''''kāshal''''' </i> , "to stumble"), "neither bereave thy nations any more" (the Revised Version, margin "cause to stumble"). </p> <p> [[Bereaver]] , otherwise very rare, is found the Revised Version (British and American) Ezekiel 36:13 (from Hebrew שׁכל , <i> '''''shākhōl''''' </i> "to be childless"), "a bereaver of thy nation" (the King James Version "hast bereaved"). </p> <p> Bereft is found in 1 Timothy 6:5 (from the Greek <i> '''''aposteréō''''' </i> , "to rob") "bereft of the truth" (the King James Version "destitute"). The expression <i> bereavement </i> (the Revised Version (British and American) Isaiah 49:20 ) in the phrase "the children of thy bereft" means "the children born to thee in the time when [[God]] had afflicted thee." </p> == Kitto's [[Popular]] [[Cyclopedia]] of Biblial Literature == <p> Bere´a (Acts 17:10), a city of Macedonia, situate on the river Astraeus, not far from Pelia, towards the south-west, and near Mount Bermius. It was afterwards called Irenopolis, and is now known by the name of Boor. Paul and Silas withdrew to this place from Thessalonica; and the Jewish residents are described as more ingenuous, and of a better disposition (not 'more noble,' as in the [[Authorized]] Version) 'than those of Thessalonica,' in that they diligently searched the Scriptures to ascertain the truth of the doctrines taught by the Apostles. </p> == Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and [[Ecclesiastical]] Literature == <p> (Βερέα ), a place in [[Judea]] apparently not very far from Jerusalem, where Bacchides, the general of Demetrius, encamped shortly before the engagement in which [[Judas]] Maccabaeus was slain (1 [[Maccabees]] 9:4). Other copies, however, read Berzath (Βεηρζάθ, Βεηρθάζ, Βηρζήθ, etc., see Grimm, in loc.), from in which [[Reland]] conjectures (Palaest. p. 624) that it may be the BEZETH (q.v.) of 1 Maccabees 7:19, especially as Josephus, in his parallel account (Ant. 12, 11, 4), calls the place in question Bethzetho (Βηθζηθώ, Ant. 12, II, 1; compo. 10, 2). (See [[Beroea]]). </p> <p> (1 Maccabees 9:4). Lieut. [[Conder]] (Tent Work, ii, 335) proposes to identify this place with Bireh, which, however, has long since been settled as the site of Beeroth. </p>

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