Bible Dictionary: Africa

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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

AFRICA

af'-ri-ka: The name of this tract, as a continent, does not occur in the Bible, and it was only in later days known as one of the quarters of the world, under the name of Libya-that portion opposite the coast of Greece and West of Egypt.

Greek

3033. Libue -- "the west bank of the Nile," Libya, a region in N. ...
... 3032, 3033. Libue. 3034 . "the west bank of the Nile," Libya, a region in N.
Africa. Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: Libue Phonetic Spelling ...
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2957. Kurene -- Cyrene, a city in N. Africa
... Cyrene, a city in N. Africa. Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: Kurene
Phonetic Spelling: (koo-ray'-nay) Short Definition: Cyrene Definition: Cyrene ...
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688. Arabia -- Arabia, a peninsula of Asia near Africa
... Arabia, a peninsula of Asia near Africa. Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration:
Arabia Phonetic Spelling: (ar-ab-ee'-ah) Short Definition: Arabia ...
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4950. Surtis -- "shoal," Syrtis, the name of two large sandbanks ...
... Transliteration: Surtis Phonetic Spelling: (soor'-tis) Short Definition: Syrtis,
quicksand Definition: Syrtis, a quicksand off the coast of North Africa. ...
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4949. Surophoinikissa -- a Syrophoenician (woman)
... rof-oy'-nis-sah) Short Definition: Syrophoenician Definition: Syrophoenician, ie
Phoenician (of Syria, in contrast to Carthage and its territory in North Africa ...
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Topical Bible Verses

Acts 1:8
But you shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come on you: and you shall be witnesses to me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and to the uttermost part of the earth.
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Matthew 24:14
And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness to all nations; and then shall the end come.
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Strong's Hebrew

3864. Lubim -- inhab. of N. Africa
... of N. Africa. Transliteration: Lubim Phonetic Spelling: (loo-bee') Short Definition:
Lubim. ... of N. Africa NASB Word Usage Libya (1), Libyans (1), Lubim (3). ...
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4714. Mitsrayim -- a son of Ham, also his desc. and their country ...
... a son of Ham, also his desc. and their country in NW Africa. Transliteration: Mitsrayim
Phonetic Spelling: (mits-rah'-yim) Short Definition: Egypt. ...
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Library

To the Bishops of Africa.
... Chapter II. To the Bishops of Africa. Letter of Ninety Bishops of Egypt and Libya,
including Athanasius. 1.-Pre-Eminence of the Council of Nicæa. ...
/.../athanasius/select works and letters or athanasius/to the bishops of africa.htm

Epistle xxxvii. To Innocent, Præfect of Africa.
... Epistle XXXVII. To Innocent, Præfect of Africa. To Innocent, Præfect of
Africa. Gregory to Innocent, &c. The lucid eloquence of ...
/.../the epistles of saint gregory the great/epistle xxxvii to innocent praefect.htm

Epistle Lxxiv. To Gennadius, Patrician and Exarch of Africa.
... Epistle LXXIV. To Gennadius, Patrician and Exarch of Africa. To Gennadius,
Patrician and Exarch of Africa. Gregory to Gennadius, &c. ...
/.../epistle lxxiv to gennadius patrician.htm

Of those who do not Communicate in Africa and Would Go Across Seas ...
... (Greek cviii.) Of those who do not communicate in Africa and would go across seas.
Of those who do not communicate in Africa and would go across seas. ...
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That He Also Adjusted the Controversies which had Arisen in Africa ...
... Book II. Chapter LXVI."That he also adjusted the Controversies which had
arisen in Africa. "Finding, then, that the whole of Africa ...
/.../pamphilius/the life of constantine/chapter lxvi that he also adjusted.htm

However, Before those Laws were Sent into Africa by which Men are ...
... A Treatise Chapter 7. " 25. However, before those laws were sent into
Africa by which men are compelled� "25. However, before ...
/.../writings in connection with the donatist controversy /chapter 7 25 however.htm

Letter xii. Leo, Bishop of the City of Rome, to all the Bishops of ...
... Letter XII. Leo, bishop of the city of Rome, to all the bishops of Mauritania
Cæsariensis in Africa, greeting the Lord. Leo, bishop ...
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Epistle Lxxv. To Gennadius, Patrician, and Exarch Throughout ...
... Epistle LXXV. To Gennadius, Patrician, and Exarch throughout Africa. To
Gennadius, Patrician, and Exarch throughout Africa. Gregory ...
/.../the epistles of saint gregory the great/epistle lxxv to gennadius patrician.htm

Epistle Lxi. To Gennadius, Patrician and Exarch of Africa.
... Epistle LXI. To Gennadius, Patrician and Exarch of Africa. To Gennadius,
Patrician and Exarch of Africa. Gregory to Gennadius, &c. ...
/.../the epistles of saint gregory the great/epistle lxi to gennadius patrician.htm

Of the Conversion of Evodius, and the Death of his Mother when ...
... Book IX. Chapter VIII."Of the Conversion of Evodius, and the Death of His Mother
When Returning with Him to Africa; And Whose Education He Tenderly Relates. ...
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Thesaurus

Africa (1 Occurrence)
...AFRICA. ... Other portions of Africa known to the Hebrews were Cush or Ethiopia, and
Put, whose inhabitants they regarded as belonging to the Hamitic stock. ...
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Ophir (12 Occurrences)
... Ophir has been a subject of dispute, the claims of three different regions being
principally advanced, namely (1) India and the Far East, (2) Africa, (3) Arabia ...
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Leopard (6 Occurrences)
... It is found in Southern Asia and Africa. By some the panther (Felis pardus) is regarded
as a variety of leopard. Int. ... some found in Africa or India. ...
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Chameleon (1 Occurrence)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary. (n.) A lizardlike reptile, changeable in appearance,
of the genus Chamaeleo, of several species, found in Africa, Asia, and Europe. ...
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Cush (31 Occurrences)
... But there are intimations which warrant the conclusion that there was also a Cush
in Africa, the Ethiopia (so called by the Greeks) of Africa. ...
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Zoology
... child shall put his hand on the adder's den." The fauna of Palestine is mainly European
and Asiatic, but resembles in some important points the fauna of Africa...
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Camel (13 Occurrences)
... (2.) The Arabian camel or dromedary, from the Greek dromos, "a runner" (Isaiah
60:6; Jeremiah 2:23), has but one hump, and is a native of Western Asia or Africa...
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Nile (37 Occurrences)
... THE NILE IN RELIGION 1. The Nile as a God 2. The Nile in the Osirian Myth 3. The
Celestial Nile A river of North Africa, the great river of Egypt. ...
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Serpent (40 Occurrences)
... Typhlops vermicularis Merr., Greece and Southwestern Asia; T. simoni Bttgr., Palestine;
Eryx jaculus L., Greece, North Africa, Central and Southwestern Asia ...
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Latin (2 Occurrences)
... The Motive of Translation 2. Multiplicity of Latin Translations in the 4th Century
3. The Latin Bible before Jerome 4. First Used in North Africa 5. Cyprian's ...
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Bible Concordance

Africa (1 Occurrence)

Acts 2:10 of Egypt or of the parts of Africa towards Cyrene. Others are visitors from Rome--being either Jews or converts from heathenism--and others are Cretans or Arabians.
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Subtopics

Africa

African Americans

Related Terms

Ophir (12 Occurrences)

Leopard (6 Occurrences)

Chameleon (1 Occurrence)

Cush (31 Occurrences)

Zoology

Camel (13 Occurrences)

Nile (37 Occurrences)

Serpent (40 Occurrences)