Lexical Summary Bernikē: Berenice, Bernice, daughter of Herod Agrippa I Original Word: ΒερνίκηTransliteration: Bernikē Phonetic Spelling: (ber-nee'-kay) Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Short Definition: Berenice, Bernice, daughter of Herod Agrippa I Meaning: Berenice -- Bernice, daughter of Herod Agrippa I Strong's Concordance Bernice. From a provincial form of phero and nike; victorious; Bernice, a member of the Herodian family -- Bernice. see GREEK phero see GREEK nike Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 959: ΒερνίκηΒερνίκη, Βερνίκης, ἡ (for Βερενικη, and this the Macedonic form (cf. Sturz, De dial. Mac., p. 31) of Φερενικη (i. e. victorious)), Bernice or Berenice, daughter of Herod Agrippa the elder. She married first her uncle Herod, king of Chalcis, and after his death Polemon, king of Cilicia. Deserting him soon afterward, she returned to her brother Agrippa, with whom previously when a widow she was said to have lived incestuously. Finally she became for a tithe the mistress of the emperor Titus (Josephus, Antiquities 19, 5, 1; 20, 7, 1 and 3; Tacitus, hist. 2, 2 and 81; Suetonius, Titus 7): Acts 25:13, 23; Acts 26:30. Cf. Hausrath in Schenkel i., p. 396f; (Farrar, St. Paul, ii. 599f). |
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