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Caesarea in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

1. Named also Sebaste (i.e. of Augustus, in whose honor Herod the Great built it in ten years with a lavish expenditure, so that Tacitus calls it "the head of Judaea".) Also Stratonis, from Strato's tower, and Palaestinae, and Maritime. The residence of Philip the deacon and his four prophesying daughters (Acts 8:40; Acts 21:8; Acts 21:16). A...

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Caesarea Scripture - Acts 10:24

And the morrow after they entered into Caesarea. And Cornelius waited for them, and had called together his kinsmen and near friends....

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Caesarea Scripture - Acts 18:22

And when he had landed at Caesarea, and gone up, and saluted the church, he went down to Antioch....

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Calvary in Easton's Bible Dictionary

only in Luke 23:33, the Latin name Calvaria, which was used as a translation of the Greek word _Kranion_, by which the Hebrew word _Gulgoleth_ was interpreted, "the place of a skull." It probably took this name from its shape, being a hillock or low, rounded, bare elevation somewhat in the form of a human skull. It is nowhere in Scripture...

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Bethphage in Easton's Bible Dictionary

house of the unripe fig, a village on the Mount of Olives, on the road from Jerusalem to Jericho (Matt. 21:1; Mark 11:1; Luke 19:29), and very close to Bethany. It was the limit of a Sabbath-day's journey from Jerusalem, i.e., 2,000 cubits. It has been identified with the modern Kefr-et-Tur....

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Bethsaida Scripture - Mark 8:22

And he cometh to Bethsaida; and they bring a blind man unto him, and besought him to touch him....

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Caesarea Scripture - Acts 10:1

There was a certain man in Caesarea called Cornelius, a centurion of the band called the Italian [band],...

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Cana in Easton's Bible Dictionary

Reedy, a town of Galilee, near Capernaum. Here our Lord wrought his first miracle, the turning of water into wine (John 2:1-11; 4:46). It is also mentioned as the birth-place of Nathanael (21:2). It is not mentioned in the Old Testament. It has been identified with the modern Kana el-Jelil, also called Khurbet Kana, a place 8 or 9 miles n...

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Canaan in Naves Topical Bible

1. Son of Ham Ge 9:18 Descendants of Ge 10:6,15; 1Ch 1:8,13 -2. Land of Ge 11:31; 17:8; 23:2 Called THE SANCTUARY Ex 15:17 Called PALESTINE Ex 15:14 Called THE LAND OF ISRAEL 1Sa 13:19 Called THE LAND OF THE HEBREWS Ge 40:15 Called THE LAND OF THE JEWS Ac 10:39 Called THE LAND OF PROMISE Heb 11:9 Called THE HOLY LAND Zec 2:12 Ca...

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Bethsaida in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(house of fish) of Galilee, Joh 12:21 a city which was the native place of Andrew, Peter and Philip, Joh 1:44; 12:21 in the land of Gennesareth, Mr 6:46 comp. Mark 6:53 and therefore on the west side of the lake. By comparing the narratives in Mr 6:31-53 and Luke 9:10-17 it appears certain that the Bethsaida at which the five thousand were fe...

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