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Berea in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(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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Berea in Easton's Bible Dictionary

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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Berea in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

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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Berea in Hitchcock's Bible Names

heavy; weighty...

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Berea Scripture - Acts 20:4

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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Berea Scripture - Acts 17:10

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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Berea Scripture - Acts 17:13

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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Berea in Naves Topical Bible

A city in the south of Macedonia Ac 17:10,13; 20:4...

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Beroea in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

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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