Bible Cities: Berea
Ancient Berea

Berea in Easton's Bible Dictionary
a city of Macedonia to which Paul with Silas and Timotheus
went
when persecuted at Thessalonica (Acts 17:10, 13), and
from which
also he was compelled to withdraw, when he fled to the
sea-coast
and thence sailed to Athens (14, 15). Sopater, one of
Paul's
companions belonged to this city, and his conversion
probably
took place at this time (Acts 20:4). It is now called
Verria.
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Berea in Fausset's Bible Dictionary
A city of Macedon, whither Paul withdrew, with Silas and
Timothy, at his first visit to Europe, from Jewish
persecution at Thessalonica, whence also, when the
persecutors followed him from Thessalonica, he retired
seawards to proceed to Athens (Acts 17:10-15). The Berean
Jews were "more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that
they received the word (preached) with all readiness of mind
(not in a cavilling, critical spirit), and (yet not in a
credulous spirit, for they) searched the Scriptures daily
whether those things were so." (See Isaiah 8:20; John 5:39;
Galatians 1:8-9.) The result was necessarily, "many
believed; also of honorable women, which were Greeks, and of
men not a few."
Sopater, or Sosipater, one of them, became Paul's
missionary companion (Acts 20:4; Romans 16:21) in returning
to Asia from his second visit to Europe, where he had been
with him at Corinth. Now Verria, or Kara-verria, commanding
a wide view of the plain of the Axius and Haliacmon; one of
the most pleasant towns of Roumelia, with 20,000
inhabitants. One of the two roads from Thessalonica to Berea
passed by Pella. A road led from Berea to Dium, whence
probably Paul sailed to Athens, leaving Silas and Timothy
behind.
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Berea in Hitchcock's Bible Names
heavy; weighty
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Berea in Naves Topical Bible
A city in the south of Macedonia Ac 17:10,13; 20:4
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Berea in Smiths Bible Dictionary
(well watered).
1. A city of Macedonia, mentioned in Ac 17:10,13 It is
now called Verria or Kara-Verria, and is situated on the
eastern slope of the Olympian mountain range, and has 15,000
or 20,000 inhabitants.
2. The modern Aleppo, mentioned in 2 Macc. 13:4.
3. A place in Judea, apparently not very far from
Jerusalem. 1 Macc. 9:4.
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Berea Scripture - Acts 17:10
And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night
unto Berea: who coming [thither] went into the synagogue of
the Jews.
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Berea Scripture - Acts 17:13
But when the Jews of Thessalonica had knowledge that the word
of God was preached of Paul at Berea, they came thither also,
and stirred up the people.
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Berea Scripture - Acts 20:4
And there accompanied him into Asia Sopater of Berea; and of
the Thessalonians, Aristarchus and Secundus; and Gaius of
Derbe, and Timotheus; and of Asia, Tychicus and Trophimus.
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Beroea in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE
be-re'-a (Beroia or Berroia): #(1) A town of southwestern
Macedonia, in the district of Emathia. It lay at the foot of
Mt. Bermius, on a tributary of the Haliacmon, and seems to
have been an ancient town, though the date of its foundation
is uncertain. A passage in Thucydides (i.61) relating to the
year 432 BC probably refers to another place of the same
name, but an inscription (Inscr Graec, II, 5, 296i) proves
its existence at the end of the 4th century BC, and it is
twice mentioned by Polybius (xxvii.8; xxviii.8). After the
battle of Pydba in 168 BC Berea was the first city to
surrender to Rome and fell in the third of the four regions
into which Macedonia was divided (Livy xliv.45; xlv.29).
Paul and Silas came to Berea from Thessalonica which they
had been forced by an uproar to leave, and preached in the
synagogue to the Jews, many of whom believed after a candid
examination of the apostolic message in the light of their
Scriptures (Acts 17:10,11). A number of "Gr women of
honorable estate and of men" also believed, but the advent
of a body of hostile Jews from Thessalonica created a
disturbance in consequence of which Paul had to leave the
city, though Silas and Timothy stayed there for a few days
longer (Acts 17:12-15). Perhaps the Sopater of Berea who
accompanied Paul to Asia on his last journey to Jerusalem
was one of his converts on this visit (Acts 20:4). Berea,
which was one of the most populous cities of Macedonia early
became a bishopric under the metropolitan of Thessalonica
and was itself made a metropolis by Andronicus II (1283-
1328): there is a tradition that the first bishop of the
church was Onesimus. It played a prominent part in the
struggles between the Greeks and the Bulgarians and Serbs,
and was finally conquered by the Turks in 1373-74. The town,
which still bears among the Greeks its ancient name
(pronounced Verria) though called by the Turks Karaferia,
possesses but few remains of antiquity with the exception of
numerous inscriptions (Leake, Travels in Northern Greece,
III, 290 if; Cousinery, Voyage dans la Macedoine, I, 57 ff;
Dimitsas, Makedonia in Greek, 57 ff).
Marcus N. Tod
(2) The place where Menelaus the ex-high priest was executed
by order of Antiochus Eupator, the victim, according to
local custom, being cast from a tower 50 cubits high into a
bed of ashes (2 Macc 13:3 ff). It was the ancient city of
Chalab, lying about midway between Antioch and Hierapolis.
Seleucus Nicator gave it the name Berea. It was a city of
importance under the Moslems in the Middle Ages, when the
old name again asserted itself, and remains to the present
time.
The name "Aleppo" came to us through the Venetian traders in
the days before the great overland route to India via Aleppo
lost its importance through the discovery of the passage
round the Cape. Aleppo is now a city of nearly 130,000
inhabitants. The governor exercises authority over a wide
district extending from the Euphrates to the Mediterranean.
(3) (Berea); A place mentioned in 1 Macc 9:4. It may be
identical with BEEROTH (which see) in Benjamin, a Hivite
town, 8 miles North of Jerusalem, or with the modern Birez-
Zait, 1 1/2 miles Northwest of Jifneh.
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