Βερνίκη, -ns, ἡ, (for Βερενίκη, and this the Macedonic form [cf. Sturz, De dial. Mae. p. 31] of Φερενίκη [i. 6. vietorious]), Bernice or Berenice, daughter of Herod Agrippa the elder. She married first her uncle Herod, king of Chalcis, and after his death Polemon, king of Cilicia. Deserting him soon afterwards, she returned to her brother Agrippa, with whom previously when a widow she was said to have lived incestuously. Finally she became for a time the mistress of the emperor Titus (Joseph. antt. 19, 5,1; 20, 7,1 and 8; Tacit. hist. 2, 2 and 81; Suet. Tit. 7): Acts xxv. 13, 23; xxvi. 30. Cf. Hausrath in Schenkel i. p. 396 sq.; [Farrar, St. Paul, ii. 599 sq.].

Βερνίκη Bernikē 3x

Bernice, pr. name, Acts 25:13, 23; 26:30*

Βερνίκη

(elsewhere Βερενίκη, Macedonian form of Φερενίκη, cf. Veronica, Victoria), -ης, ἡ,

Bernice, Berenice, dau. of Herod Agrippa I: Ac 25:13, 23 26:30.†

Βερνίκη says that (οὐκ) ἀπὸ τοῦ B. in 2 Macc]14°° [“came not of good,” RV] can be paralleled with ‘‘many examp'es” in the Inscrr. and in Dionys. Hal. and Plutarch. “Tt may be noted further that we have ἀγροικότερον ἐσχηκότα in the preceding clause, which suggests that here Judas Maecabaeus is observing Nicanor’s ‘‘écorésh” rudeness towards him, οὐκ a. τ. B. having the same nuance as in the papyri and inser. just quoted." The survival of an old use of βέλτιστε in address may be observed in BGU IV. 1140*(B.c. 4), where ἡἠγεμὼ(ν) βέλτιστε is corrected into μέγιστε, probably because the former was too familiar, as its use in Plato would suggest. The rare form βέλτατα :s found P Petr IT. 9(3)? (b.c. 241-39) τὰ [β]έλτατα πληρώματα. The verb βελτιόω occurs in the vi/A.b. P Lond το 455 (= III. p. 255) φιλοκαλεῖν καὶ βελτιοῦν : cf. Sy// 4185 (A.D. 238) ἐν τοῖς εὐτυχεστάτοις σοῦ καιροῖς κατοικεῖσθαι καὶ βελτιοῦσθαι τὰς κώμας.

Βερνίκη (Bernikē) — Bernice. Βερνίκη (elsewhere Βερενίκη), Macedonian form of Φερενίκη, cf. Veronica, Victoria), -ης, ἡ, Bernice, Berenice, dau. of Herod Agrippa I: Act.25:13, 23 26:3o.† (From Abbott-Smith. LSJ has no entry)