BIBLE DICTIONARY + WORD STUDY
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GREEK · G959
Bernikē — Bernice
Βερνίκη (elsewhere Βερενίκη), Macedonian form of Φερενίκη, cf. Veronica, Victoria), -ης, ἡ, Bernice, Berenice, dau. of Herod Agrippa I: Act.25:13, 23 26:3o.† (AS)
3 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →Bearer of victory, the eldest daughter of Agrippa I., the Herod Agrippa of Acts 12:20. After the early death of her first husband she was married to her uncle Herod, king of Chalcis. After his death (A.D. 40) she lived in incestuous connection with her brother Agrippa II. (Acts 25:13, 23; 26:30). They joined the Romans at the outbreak of the final war between them and the Jews, and lived afterwards at Rome.
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.
