greece Summary and Overview

orginally consisted of the four provinces of Macedonia, Epirus, Achaia, and Peleponnesus. In Acts 20:2 it designates only the Roman province of Macedonia. Greece was conquered by the Romans B.C. 146. After passing through various changes it was erected into an independent monarchy in 1831. Moses makes mention of Greece under the name of Javan (Gen. 10:2-5); and this name does not again occur in the Old Testament till the time of Joel (3:6). Then the Greeks and Hebrews first came into contact in the Tyrian slave-market. Prophetic notice is taken of Greece in Dan. 8:21. The cities of Greece were the special scenes of the labors of the apostle Paul.

GREECE or HELLAS the well-known country in the south-east of Europe. It is named four times in the O.T. as Greece or Grecia, Zech 9:13; Dan 8:21; Num 10:20; Matt 11:2, and once in the N.T., Acts 20:2. It or its people are referred to in Hebrew history as Javan, Isa 66:19; Eze 27:13, Eze 27:19, and in apostolic history as Achaia. Its cities noticed in Scripture are Atliens, Corinth, and Cenchrea. See Greeks, and for further notice of the country, see Achaia and Macedonia.

(See GRECIANS.)