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Cilicia in Easton's Bible Dictionary

a maritime province in the south-east of Asia Minor. Tarsus, the birth-place of Paul, was one of its chief towns, and the seat of a celebrated school of philosophy. Its luxurious climate attracted to it many Greek residents after its incorporation with the Macedonian empire. It was formed into a Roman province, B.C. 67. The Jews of Cilici...

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Cilicia Scripture - Acts 27:5

And when we had sailed over the sea of Cilicia and Pamphylia, we came to Myra, [a city] of Lycia....

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Cities of Refuge Scripture - 1 Chronicles 6:67

And they gave unto them, [of] the cities of refuge, Shechem in mount Ephraim with her suburbs; [they gave] also Gezer with her suburbs,...

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Zion in Hitchcock's Bible Names

monument; raised up; sepulcher...

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City of David Scripture - 2 Chronicles 32:5

Also he strengthened himself, and built up all the wall that was broken, and raised [it] up to the towers, and another wall without, and repaired Millo [in] the city of David, and made darts and shields in abundance....

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Colosse in Hitchcock's Bible Names

punishment; correction...

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Cenchrea in Easton's Bible Dictionary

millet, the eastern harbour of Corinth, from which it was distant about 9 miles east, and the outlet for its trade with the Asiatic shores of the Mediterranean. When Paul returned from his second missionary journey to Syria, he sailed from this port (Acts 18:18). In Rom. 16:1 he speaks as if there were at the time of his writing that epist...

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Chebar in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(length), a river in the "land of the Chaldeans." Eze 1:3; 3:15,23 etc. It is commonly regarded as identical with the Habor, 2Ki 17:6 and perhaps the Royal Canal of Nebuchadnezzar, --the greatest of all the cuttings in Mesopotamia....

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Chebar Scripture - Ezekiel 10:22

And the likeness of their faces [was] the same faces which I saw by the river of Chebar, their appearances and themselves: they went every one straight forward....

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Cilicia in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

A province S.E. of Asia Minor, having the Mediterranean on the S., Pamphylia on the W., the Taurus and Antitaurus range on the N., separating it from Lycaonia and Cappadocia, and on the E. the range of Areanus separating it from Syria. The eastern portion is level, well watered, and fruitful; the western rugged, and chiefly fit for pasture. Ta...

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