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== Fausset's | == Fausset's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_34779" /> == | ||
<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> | |||
== Smith's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_71606" /> == | |||
<p> '''Bereni'ce.''' ''See '' [[Bernice]] ''.'' </p> | |||
== Morrish Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_65149" /> == | |||
<p> See [[Bernice.]] </p> | |||
== Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_24360" /> == | |||
<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> | |||
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<ref name="term_34779"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/fausset-s-bible-dictionary/berenice Berenice from Fausset's Bible Dictionary]</ref> | <ref name="term_34779"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/fausset-s-bible-dictionary/berenice Berenice from Fausset's Bible Dictionary]</ref> | ||
<ref name="term_71606"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/smith-s-bible-dictionary/berenice Berenice from Smith's Bible Dictionary]</ref> | <ref name="term_71606"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/smith-s-bible-dictionary/berenice Berenice from Smith's Bible Dictionary]</ref> | ||
<ref name=" | <ref name="term_65149"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/morrish-bible-dictionary/berenice Berenice from Morrish Bible Dictionary]</ref> | ||
<ref name="term_24360"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/cyclopedia-of-biblical-theological-and-ecclesiastical-literature/berenice Berenice from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature]</ref> | <ref name="term_24360"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/cyclopedia-of-biblical-theological-and-ecclesiastical-literature/berenice Berenice from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature]</ref> | ||
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