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Cyrene in Hitchcock's Bible Names

a wall; coldness; the floor...

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Cyrene Scripture - Acts 13:1

Now there were in the church that was at Antioch certain prophets and teachers; as Barnabas, and Simeon that was called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, which had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul....

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Cyrene Scripture - Acts 2:10

Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews and proselytes,...

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Cyrene in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

si-re'-ne (Kurene "wall"): 1. Location: Cyrene was a city of Libya in North Africa, lat. 32 degrees 40' North, long. 22 degrees 15' East. It lay West of ancient Egypt, from which it was separated by a portion of the Libyan desert, and occupied the territory now belonging to Barca and Tripoli. It was situated upon an elevated plateau about 2,00...

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Cyrene Scripture - Acts 11:20

And some of them were men of Cyprus and Cyrene, which, when they were come to Antioch, spake unto the Grecians, preaching the Lord Jesus....

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Cyrene in Naves Topical Bible

A city in Libya Ac 2:10 -Contained a synagogue Ac 6:9 -Simon and Lucius belonged to Mr 15:21; Ac 11:20; 13:1...

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Cyrene Scripture - Matthew 27:32

And as they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name: him they compelled to bear his cross....

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Cyrene in Smiths Bible Dictionary

the principal city of that part of northern Africa which was sufficiently called Cyrenaica, lying between Carthage and Egypt, and corresponding with the modern Tripoli. Though on the African coast, it was a Greek city, and the Jews were settled there in large numbers. The Greek colonization of this part of Africa under Battus began of early as...

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Cyrene in Easton's Bible Dictionary

a city (now Tripoli) in Upper Libya, North Africa, founded by a colony of Greeks (B.C. 630). It contained latterly a large number of Jews, who were introduced into the city by Ptolemy, the son of Lagus, because he thought they would contribute to the security of the place. They increased in number and influence; and we are thus prepared f...

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Cyrene in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

The chief city of Cyrenaica (now Tripoli), or the Libyan pentapolis (five cities) in N. Africa, between Egypt and Carthage, S., across the sea, of Crete and the Greek Peloponnese. A Dorian Greek colony, reigned over by Battus and his family 630 B.C. Afterward joined to its eastern neighbor Egypt. A table land descending by terraces to the sea...

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