Berea
be-re'-a (Beroia or Berroia): #(1) A town of southwestern
Macedonia, in the district of Emathia. It lay at the foot of
Mt. Bermius, on a tributary of the Haliacmon, and seems to
have been an ancient town, though the date of its foundation
is uncertain. A passage in Thucydides (i.61) relating to the
year 432 BC probably refers to another place ...
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A city in the south of Macedonia Ac 17:10,13; 20:4...
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(well watered).
1. A city of Macedonia, mentioned in Ac 17:10,13 It is
now called Verria or Kara-Verria, and is situated on the
eastern slope of the Olympian mountain range, and has 15,000
or 20,000 inhabitants.
2. The modern Aleppo, mentioned in 2 Macc. 13:4.
3. A place in Judea, apparently not very far from
Jerusalem. 1 Macc. 9:4....
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a city of Macedonia to which Paul with Silas and Timotheus
went
when persecuted at Thessalonica (Acts 17:10, 13), and
from which
also he was compelled to withdraw, when he fled to the
sea-coast
and thence sailed to Athens (14, 15). Sopater, one of
Paul's
companions belonged to this city, and his conversion
probably
took place at this time...
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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 ...
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And there accompanied him into Asia Sopater of Berea; and of
the Thessalonians, Aristarchus and Secundus; and Gaius of
Derbe, and Timotheus; and of Asia, Tychicus and Trophimus....
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And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night
unto Berea: who coming [thither] went into the synagogue of
the Jews....
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But when the Jews of Thessalonica had knowledge that the word
of God was preached of Paul at Berea, they came thither also,
and stirred up the people....
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