Proper noun ... Any of several settlements in the Hellenistic world, including: Acre (a city in modern Israel) ...

NAS Word Usage - Total: 1. Ptolemais or Accho = "warlike". a maritime city of Phoenicia, which got its name, apparently, from Ptolemy Lathyrus, who captured ...

Ptolemais was an ancient port city on the Canaanite coast in the ancient region of Phoenicia, in the location of the present-day city of Acre, Israel.

a maritime city of Galilee ( Acts 21:7 ). It was originally called "Accho" (q.v.), and received the name Ptolemais from Ptolemy Soter when he was in possession ...

Ptolemais. Definition: Ptolemais, a city on the seacoast of Galilee: the modern Acre, Acts 21:7*. Greek-English Concordance for Πτολεμαΐς. Acts 21:7, And having ...

A maritime city of Galilee (Acts 21:7). It was originally called "Accho" (q.v.), and received the name Ptolemais from Ptolemy Soter when he was in ...

adjective ... : of or relating to the Greco-Egyptian Ptolemies ruling Egypt from 323 to 30 b.c. ...

Ptolemais definition: An older name of Ptolemaida.

Elsewhere ; Ptolemaida in West Macedonia, Greece ; Ptolemais (Pamphylia), a coastal town of ancient Pamphylia or of Cilicia ; Ptolemais in Phoenicia, later Acre, ...