Ptolemais
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Ptolemais and surrounding region

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Occurrences
Acts 21:7 When we had finished the voyage from Tyre, we arrived at Ptolemais. We greeted the brothers, and stayed with them one day.
Encyclopedia
PTOLEMAIS

tol-e-ma'-is (Ptolemais): Same as "Acco" in Judges 1:31. Ptolemais was the most prominent town on the Phoenician seacoast in Maccabean times (1 Maccabees 5:15, 55; 10:1, 58, 60; 12:48), and is once mentioned in the New Testament in Acts 21:7 as a seaport at which Paul landed for one day, visiting the "brethren" in the place.

See ACCO; PHOENICIA.


PTOLEMA'IS, same as Accho.
Strong's Greek
G4424: Ptolemais

Ptolemais, a seaport south of Tyre

Potsherd Gate (Jerusalem)
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