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Thessalonica in Smiths Bible Dictionary

The original name of this city was Therma; and that part of the Macedonian shore on which it was situated retained through the Roman period the designation of the Thermaic Gulf. Cassander the son of Antipater rebuilt and enlarged Therma, and named it after his wife Thessalonica, the sister of Alexander the Great. The name ever since, under var...

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Thessalonica Scripture - Acts 17:1

Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where was a synagogue of the Jews:...

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Thyatira Scripture - Acts 16:14

And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, which worshipped God, heard [us]: whose heart the Lord opened, that she attended unto the things which were spoken of Paul....

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Tophet in Naves Topical Bible

Also called TOPHETH -A place in the valley of the sons of Hinnom 2Ki 23:10 -Jewish children passed through the fire to the god Molech in 2Ki 23:10; Jer 7:31,32; 19:6,11-14; 32:35 -See also 2Ch 28:3; 33:6 -Destroyed by Josiah 2Ki 23:10 -Horror of Isa 30:33...

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Tophet Scripture - Isaiah 30:33

For Tophet [is] ordained of old; yea, for the king it is prepared; he hath made [it] deep [and] large: the pile thereof [is] fire and much wood; the breath of the LORD, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it....

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Tarsus Scripture - Acts 9:30

[Which] when the brethren knew, they brought him down to Caesarea, and sent him forth to Tarsus....

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Tekoa Scripture - Amos 1:1

The words of Amos, who was among the herdmen of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel, two years before the earthquake....

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Tel Abib in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(cornhill) was probably a city of Chaldaea or Babylonia, not of upper Mesopotamia as generally supposed. Eze 3:16 The whole scene of Ezekiel's preaching and visions seems to have been Chaldaea proper; and the river Chebar, as already observed, was not the Khabour, but a branch of the Euphrates....

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Thessalonica Scripture - Philippians 4:16

For even in Thessalonica ye sent once and again unto my necessity....

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Thessalonica in Easton's Bible Dictionary

a large and populous city on the Thermaic bay. It was the capital of one of the four Roman districts of Macedonia, and was ruled by a praetor. It was named after Thessalonica, the wife of Cassander, who built the city. She was so called by her father, Philip, because he first heard of her birth on the day of his gaining a victory over the ...

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