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Antioch of Syria in Naves Topical Bible

A city of Syria. Disciples first called Christians in Ac 11:19-30. The congregation in Ac 13:1; 14:26,27. Barnabas and Paul make second visit to Ac 14:26-28. Dissension within the congregation of Ac 15:22; with 15:1-35. Paul and Peter's controversy at Ga 2:11-15....

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Aphek in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(strength), the name of several places in Israel. 1. A royal city of the Canaanites, the king of which was killed by Joshua, Jos 12:18 probably the same as APHEKAH in Jos 15:53 2. A city, apparently in the extreme north of Asher, Jos 19:30 from which the Canaanites were not ejected, Jud 1:31 though here it is APHIK. This is probably the same...

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Aphek Scripture - 1 Kings 20:26

And it came to pass at the return of the year, that Benhadad numbered the Syrians, and went up to Aphek, to fight against Israel....

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Appii Forum in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

(Acts 28:15.) A stage 48 miles from Rome, on the Appian Way, the road from Rome to the Bay of Naples. Here Christian brethren from Rome met Paul. Called from Appius Claudius, who constructed this part of the road. The site is still marked by ruins near Treponti....

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Arabia in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

a-ra'-bi-a (`arabh, Arabia): I. Name and Situation. 1. Name: The Hebrew word `arabh always denotes, strictly speaking, not the country, but the people of Arabia taken collectively, and especially the nomadic Arabs. The name of the country does not occur in the Old Testament, but in the New Testament it is used to denote the Syrian desert or the...

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Arabia Scripture - Ezekiel 27:21

Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar, they occupied with thee in lambs, and rams, and goats: in these [were they] thy merchants....

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Aphek Scripture - Joshua 13:4

From the south, all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah that [is] beside the Sidonians, unto Aphek, to the borders of the Amorites:...

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Areopagus in Easton's Bible Dictionary

the Latin form of the Greek word rendered "Mars' hill." But it denotes also the council or court of justice which met in the open air on the hill. It was a rocky height to the west of the Acropolis at Athens, on the south-east summit of which the council was held which was constituted by Solon, and consisted of nine archons or chief magis...

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Antioch of Syria in Smiths Bible Dictionary

The capital of the Greek kings of Syria, and afterwards the residence of the Roman governors of the province which bore the same name. Situation. --This metropolis was situated where the chain of Lebanon, running northward, and the chain of Taurus, running eastward. are brought to an abrupt meeting. Here the Orontes breaks through the mountain...

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Aphek in Easton's Bible Dictionary

(Judg. 1:31); Aphek (Josh. 13:4; 19:30), stronghold. (1.) A city of the tribe of Asher. It was the scene of the licentious worship of the Syrian Aphrodite. The ruins of the temple, "magnificent ruins" in a "spot of strange wildness and beauty", are still seen at Afka, on the north-west slopes of Lebanon, near the source of the river Adoni...

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