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Phenice, Phenicia
Morrish Bible Dictionary
or The same as PHOENICE, the coast of Northern Syria, extending south of Tyre, and north of Sidon, being a narrow strip of land in the south, but reaching to the Lebanon range in the N.E. The Phoenicians carried on great commercial enterprises; they established colonies (one of which was at Carthage), and their ships brought in the produce of foreign lands, with which they supplied the East. They became subject successively to the Babylonians, the Persians, the Greeks, and the Romans. Phoenice later formed a part of the Turkish Empire, it is now part of the state of Lebanon. Acts 11:19; Acts 15:3; Acts 21:2 .
The language of the ancient Phoenicians may be said to be only a different dialect from the Hebrew, as shown by ancient inscriptions; and according to Herodotus, the Phoenicians taught the Greeks 'letters.'
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Morrish, George. Entry for 'Phenice, Phenicia'. Morrish Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/mbd/p/phenice-phenicia.html. 1897.
