. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . l [-kol] (L. fr. Heb. = mouth of all, i. , Ges.), chief captain of the armyof Abimelech, king of the Philistines of Gerar inthe days of both Abraham (Gen. xxi. 22, 23) andIsaac (xxvi. 26). Phichol may be (so Kitto, Ayre,&c.) an official title borne by different persons (com-pare Abimelech, Rab-mag, &c). Pliil-a-dclplii-a [-fe-ah ; in L. pron. fil-a-del-fiah](L. fr. Gr. = city of brotherly love, L. & S.), a townon the confines of Lydia and Phrygia Katakekaurmene (i. e. entirely burnt), built by Attalus II. Phil-adelphus, king of Pergam
. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . l [-kol] (L. fr. Heb. = mouth of all, i. , Ges.), chief captain of the armyof Abimelech, king of the Philistines of Gerar inthe days of both Abraham (Gen. xxi. 22, 23) andIsaac (xxvi. 26). Phichol may be (so Kitto, Ayre,&c.) an official title borne by different persons (com-pare Abimelech, Rab-mag, &c). Pliil-a-dclplii-a [-fe-ah ; in L. pron. fil-a-del-fiah](L. fr. Gr. = city of brotherly love, L. & S.), a townon the confines of Lydia and Phrygia Katakekaurmene (i. e. entirely burnt), built by Attalus II. Phil-adelphus, king of Pergamos, probably as a mart forthe great wine-producing region (the Kalakekaume-ne), which was 500 stades (about 60 miles) long and400 broad. It was situated on the lower slopes of , on the southern side of the valley of the A in-e-ghiul Sou (a river, probably = the Cogamus of an-tiquity), and was 27 miles S. E. of Sardis. Phil-adelphia came under the Roman power with the restof this region (Asia) b. c. 133. It was taken by. Alia Shehr =. ancient Philadjlphia.—From Macfarlnnes Acocali/vli Churchet.— FbL.) PHI PHI 853 the Turks under Bajazet I. a. d. 1390, having madea gallant defence, and held out against them longerthan any other town in Asia Minor. It is still rep-resented by a town called Allahshekr (city of God.)1Its elevation is 952 feet above the sea. The regionaround is highly volcanic, and, geologically speak-ing, belongs to the district of Phrygia Kalakekau-mene, on the western edge of which it lies. Theoriginal population of Philadelphia seems to havebeen Macedonian. There was, as appears from 9, a synagogue of Hellenizing Jews there, aswell as a Christian church. The locality continuedto be subject to constant earthquakes which, in thetime of Strabo, rendered even the town-walls ofPhiladelphia unsafe. The expense of reparationwas constant, and hence perhaps the poverty of themembers of the Christian Church (Rev. iii. 8). Phi-larches [-keez] (L. fr. G
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