Φοινίκη
From LSJ
οἴνῳ τὸν οἶνον ἐξελαύνειν → chase out the wine with wine, take a hair of the dog that bit you, try to drive out the wine with wine
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
Φοινίκη: [ῑ], ἡ, ἡ χώρα τῶν Φοινίκων, Ὀδ. Δ. 83, Ἡρόδ., καὶ Ἀττ.· πρβλ. Φοῖνιξ. ΙΙ. Φοινίκας ἀντήρη χώραν, τὴν ἐν Καρχηδόνι ἀποικίαν τῶν Φοινίκων, Εὐρ. Τρῳ. 221.
French (Bailly abrégé)
ης (ἡ) :
la Phénicie.
Étymologie: Φοῖνιξ.
English (Strong)
from φοῖνιξ; palm-country; Phœnice (or Phœnicia), a region of Palestine: Phenice, Phenicia.
English (Thayer)
Φοινίκης, ἡ, Phoenice or Phoenicia, in the apostolic age a tract of the province of Syria, situated on the coast of the Mediterranean between the river Eleutherus and the promontory of Carmel, some thirty miles long and two or three broad (but see BB. DD., under the word): Acts 21:2.
