A dictionary of the . 7:36. BERIAH (in evil, or a gift). son of Asher. Gen. 46 : 17 ; : 44, 45 ; 1 Chr. 7 : 30, 31. 2. A son of Ephraim. 1 Chr. 7 : 23. 3. A Benjamite chief. 1 Chr. 8 : 13,16. 4. A Levite. 1 Chr. 23:10, , the descendants of Beriah, 1. Num. 26:44. BE RITES, THE (the people ofthe wells), a family mentioned in 2 : 14, but it is not known who they BERITH (a covenant). Jud. 9 : , or BERENICE (victorious), was the eldest daughterof Agrippa, surnamed the Great, andsister to the younger Agrippa, kings ofthe Jews. Acts 25 :
A dictionary of the . 7:36. BERIAH (in evil, or a gift). son of Asher. Gen. 46 : 17 ; : 44, 45 ; 1 Chr. 7 : 30, 31. 2. A son of Ephraim. 1 Chr. 7 : 23. 3. A Benjamite chief. 1 Chr. 8 : 13,16. 4. A Levite. 1 Chr. 23:10, , the descendants of Beriah, 1. Num. 26:44. BE RITES, THE (the people ofthe wells), a family mentioned in 2 : 14, but it is not known who they BERITH (a covenant). Jud. 9 : , or BERENICE (victorious), was the eldest daughterof Agrippa, surnamed the Great, andsister to the younger Agrippa, kings ofthe Jews. Acts 25 : 13, 23 ; 26 : first husband was her uncle Her-od, the king of Chalcis. She appearsin the Acts in connection with herbrother, Agrippa II., with whom she112 lived in incestuous intercourse afterHerods death, a. d. 48. To put anend to the scandal she married Po-lemo, king of Cilicia, whom she per-suaded to bond wassoon dis-solved, andshe returnedto her broth-er. Subse-quently, soremark ablewere her pow-. lernice. (On a Coin of Po- lemo II.)Sernice married PolemoII., king ers of attrac-tion, and sowell pre- of a part of Cilicia. The coin was served herstruck in 52 , about the time , , ,1 , when Paul was at Corinth with Deauty, tnatAquila and Priscilla. sne became mistress to both Vespasian and his 2 Kgs. 20 : 12. See Merodach-bala- DAN. BEROTHAH, and BERO- THAI (my wells), one in the northof Palestine, Eze. 47: 16, the other inthe same region, 2 Sam. 8:8. The twomay be the same, and possibly modernBeirut, but more probably farther east,at Brithen or Bretdn, about 6 milessouth-west of Baalbec. BERYL. Ex. 28 : 20. By theHebrew word tarshish modern yel-low topaz is supposed to be designation seems to indicatethe place from which it was , in the N. T., Rev. 21 : 20, isprobably a different stone, and very like-ly the mineral now so called, which isfound in Palestine, but was less abun-dant and more precious
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