STRONGS G959:
Βερνίκη,
-ης,
ἡ, (for
Βερενίκη, and this the Macedonic form [cf.
Sturz, De dial. Mac., p. 31] of
Φερενίκη [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 afterwards, she returned to her brother Agrippa, with whom previously when a widow she was said to have lived incestuously. Finally she became for a time 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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