. A dictionary of religious knowledge [electronic resource]: for popular and professional use, comprising full information on Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical subjects . mpian range, and commandsan extensive view of the neighboring has many natural advantages. Plane-treesspread a grateful shade over its gardens. Itsancient name is said to have been derivedfrom the abundance of its waters; and thename still survives in the modern Verria, orKara - Verria. A few insignificant ruins ofthe Greek and Roman periods remain to thisday. It still boasts of 18,000 or 20,000 inhab-itants
. A dictionary of religious knowledge [electronic resource]: for popular and professional use, comprising full information on Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical subjects . mpian range, and commandsan extensive view of the neighboring has many natural advantages. Plane-treesspread a grateful shade over its gardens. Itsancient name is said to have been derivedfrom the abundance of its waters; and thename still survives in the modern Verria, orKara - Verria. A few insignificant ruins ofthe Greek and Roman periods remain to thisday. It still boasts of 18,000 or 20,000 inhab-itants, and is placed in the second rank of thecities of European Turkey. [Acts xvii., 10-14.] Bernice, or Berenice, the eldest daugh-ter of Herod Agrippa I., and sister to HerodAgrippa II., married first to her uncle Her-od, king of Chalcis, after whose death shelived under suspicious circumstances withher brother. She then became the wife ofPolemon, king of Cilicia. This connectionwas soon dissolved ; and she returned toAgrippa, and was subsequently the mistress,first of Vespasian, then of Titus. [Acts xxv.,13, 23 ; xxvi., 30.] 1 Acts xiii., 21; Phil, iii 5. BERYL 117 BETH-EL. Bethany. Beryl, a precious stone of which frequentmention is made in Scripture. It was oneof the gems in the high-priests breast-plate,and constitutes one of the foundations of theNew Jerusalem. From the Hebrew nameTarshish, it has been thought by some tohave come originally from Tarshish, i. e., Tartessus, in Spain, and has been identified withthe topaz, which is still found there. Butother hypotheses have been suggested, andwhat stone is meant is by no means certain.[Exod. xxviii., 20 ; xxxix., 13 ; Sol. Song v.,14; Dan. x., 6; Rev. xxi., 20.] Beth-abara (place of passage, house of thefary), a place beyond, that is, on the east»f the Jordan, where John the Baptist Instead of Beth-abara, the bestcopies of the original manuscripts have Beth-my, which has substantially the same mean-ing, boat-h
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