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|astxt=[[Βερνίκη]] ([[elsewhere]] [[Βερενίκη]]), Macedonian [[form]] of Φερενίκη, cf. Veronica, Victoria), -ης, ἡ, <br />Bernice, Berenice, dau. of [[Herod]] [[Agrippa]] I: Ac 25:13, 23 26:3o.†
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|strgr=from a [[provincial]] [[form]] of [[φέρω]] and [[νίκη]]; [[victorious]]; Bernice, a [[member]] of the Herodian [[family]]: Bernice.
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{{Thayer
|txtha=Βερνίκης, ἡ (for Βερενικη, and [[this]] the Macedonic [[form]] (cf. Sturz, De [[dial]]. Mac., p. 31) of Φερενικη (i. e. [[victorious]])), 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]] afterward, she returned to her [[brother]] [[Agrippa]], [[with]] whom [[previously]] [[when]] a [[widow]] she [[was]] said to [[have]] lived incestuously. Finally she became for a [[tithe]] the [[mistress]] of the [[emperor]] [[Titus]] (Josephus, Antiquities 19,5, 1; 20,7, 1,3; Tacitus, hist. 2,2,81; [[Suetonius]], [[Titus]] 7): Schenkel i., p. 396f; (Farrar, St. Paul, ii. 599f).
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