Phenice

Fausset's Bible Dictionary

Acts 27:12. Phenice, or rather Phoenix (derived from the Greek, "palmtree"); a town and harbour S. of Crete, which as being safer to winter in the master of Paul's ship made for from Fair Havens, but owing to the tempestuous E.N.E. wind failed to reach. It looked toward the S.W. and N.W. On the S. side of the narrow part of Crete (Strabo x. 4). Situated over against Clauda (Hierocles). Now Lutro, but the description "looking toward S.W. and N.W." no longer applies. Either great changes have occurred in its curving shore, or translated "looking down the S.W. and N.W.," i.e. pointing the opposite direction to these winds, namely, N.E. and S.E. (?)

Smith's Bible Dictionary

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.

People's Dictionary of the Bible

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.

Morrish Bible Dictionary

Harbour on the south coast of Crete. Acts 27:12 . Identified with the modern Lutro . The haven is said in the A.V. to lie 'toward the S.W. and N.W.'; this is held to mean that it 'looks toward the N.E. and S.E.'

American Tract Society Bible Dictionary

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 .

Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary

A place where the apostle Paul anchored. (Acts 27:12)

Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament

See Phcenicia, PhCEnix.

Easton's Bible Dictionary

Acts 27:12

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

[some Phe'nice]:

a. (Acts 27:12). (See Phoenix).

b. (Acts 11:19; Acts 15:3). (See Phenicia).

Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblial Literature

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 .