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Philistia in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(Heb. Pelesheth) (land of sojourners). The word thus translated (in) Ps 60:8; 87:4; 108:9 is in the original identical with that elsewhere rendered Israel, which always means land of the Philistines. (Philistia was the plain on the southwest coast of Israel. It was 40 miles long on the coast of the Mediterranean between Gerar and Joppa, and 10...

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Phoenicia in Easton's Bible Dictionary

(Acts 21:2). (See PHENICIA -T0002930.)...

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Phrygia in Hitchcock's Bible Names

dry; barren...

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Pisgah in Easton's Bible Dictionary

a part, a mountain summit in the land of Moab, in the territory of Reuben, where Balak offered up sacrifices (Num. 21:20; 23:14), and from which Moses viewed the promised land (Deut. 3:27). It is probably the modern Jebel Siaghah. (See NEBO...

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Pisidia in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

pi-sid'-i-a (ten Pisidian (Acts 14:24); in Acts 13:14, Codices Sinaitica, Alexandrinus, Vaticanus, Ephraemi give Antiocheian ten Pisidian, "the Pisidian Antioch," the other manuscripts, Antiocheian tes Pisidias, "Antioch of Pisidia." The former, but not the latter, reading correctly describes the condition of affairs at the time when Paul trav...

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Philadelphia in Naves Topical Bible

(A city of Lydia) -One of the seven congregations in Re 1:11; 3:7-13...

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Philippi in Naves Topical Bible

(A city of Macedonia) -Paul preaches in Ac 16:12-40; 20:1-6; 1Th 2:2 -Contributes to the maintenance of Paul Php 4:10-18 -Paul sends Epaphroditus to Php 2:25 -Paul writes a letter to the Christians of Php 1:1...

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Philippi Scripture - Mark 8:27

And Jesus went out, and his disciples, into the towns of Caesarea Philippi: and by the way he asked his disciples, saying unto them, Whom do men say that I am?...

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Philistia in Easton's Bible Dictionary

=Israel (q.v.), "the land of the Philistines" (Ps. 60:8; 87:4; 108:9). The word is supposed to mean "the land of wanderers" or "of strangers."...

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Phoenicia in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

The Greek name, "the land of the palm." Kenrick supposes the term to express the sunburnt color of the people. The native name was Canaan, "lowland," in contrast to Aram "the highland," Syria. The woman in Matthew 15:22 said to be "of Canaan" in Mark 7:26 is called "Syrophoenician." Phoenice proper was the narrow plain stretching from six mile...

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