Βέροια
οὐκ ἂν λάβοις παρὰ τοῦ μὴ ἔχοντος → you can't take from one who doesn't have, you can't squeeze blood out of a turnip, you can't get blood out of a turnip, you can't get blood from a stone, you can't get blood out of a stone
Spanish (DGE)
-ας, ἡ
• Alolema(s): jón. -ίη AP 7.390 (Antip.Thess.), 9.426 (Barb.); Βέρρ- App.Syr.57; maced. por Φέροια según EM 195.37G.
Berea, Ferea
I mit. hija de Feres, epón. de la ciu. maced., Theagen.7.
II 1ciu. de Macedonia en la comarca de Ematia, actual Veria, Th.1.61, Scymn.625, D.S.31.8.8, Str.7 fr.26, Ptol.Geog.3.12.36, Plu.Demetr.44, SEG 36.590.29 (Berea II d.C.), AP ll.cc., St.Byz.
2 ciu. de Siria, actual Aleppo, Str.16.2.7, I.AI 12.385, 13.384, 20.235, App.l.c., St.Byz.
English (Abbott-Smith)
Βέροια, -ας, ἡ,
Berœa, a city of Macedonia: Ac 17:10, 13.†
English (Strong)
perhaps a provincial from a derivative of πέραν (Perœa, i.e. the region beyond the coast-line); Berœa, a place in Macedonia: Berea.
