Difference between revisions of "Berenice"

== Fausset's [[Bible]] [[Dictionary]] == <p> BERENICE or BERNICE. Oldest daughter of [[Herod]] [[Agrippa]] I (Acts 12:1). [[Married]] to her uncle Herod, king of Chalcis. [[Suspected]] after his death of intimacy with her own brother, Agrippa II, with whom she visited Festus, on his appointment as procurator of Judaea, and heard Paul's defense (Acts 25:13; Acts 25:23; Acts 26:30). Next, she was married to Polemon, king of Cilicia; but left him for her brother. Subsequently, she was mistress of Vespasian, then of Titus, who, when emperor, cast her off. </p> == Morrish Bible Dictionary == <p> See BERNICE. </p> == Smith's Bible Dictionary == <p> Bereni'ce. See [[Bernice]]. </p> == [[International]] Standard Bible [[Encyclopedia]] == <p> '''''ber´e''''' -'''''nēs''''' . See [[Bernice]] . </p> == [[Cyclopedia]] of Biblical, [[Theological]] and [[Ecclesiastical]] Literature == <p> (See [[Bernice]]). </p> <p> in [[Greek]] mythology, was the daughter of king [[Ptolemy]] Philadelphus of [[Egypt]] and of Arsinoe, who was married to her brother Ptolemy. When the latter went to [[Syria]] to war, Berenice, who loved him dearly, vowed her hair to [[Venus]] in the event of his safe return, and placed it in the temple of [[Aphrodite]] Zephyritis. On the following day it was missed, and the [[Samian]] astronomer [[Conon]] affirmed that it had been placed among the stars. There may be found by the name of "hair from the head' of Berenice" a group of stars near the tail of the [[Lion]] in the northern heavens, from 170 to 203 in a straight ascension. Its stars are all of or below the fourth magnitude, and many nebulous mists. [[Berenice]] herself was adored as an [[Egyptian]] goddess in the city of [[Memphis]] under Ptolemy V. </p>

<ref name="term_1508"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/international-standard-bible-encyclopedia/berenice Berenice from International Standard Bible Encyclopedia]</ref>