Word Summary
Antipatris: Antipatris, a city between Joppa and Caesarea in Palestine
Original Word: ἈντιπατρίςTransliteration: Antipatris
Phonetic Spelling: (an-tip-at-rece')
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Short Definition: Antipatris, a city between Joppa and Caesarea in Palestine
Meaning: Antipatris -- a city between Joppa and Caesarea in Palestine
Strong's Concordance
Antipatris.
From the same as Antipas; Antipatris, a place in Palestine -- Antipatris.
see GREEK Antipas
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 494: ἈντιπατρίςἈντιπατρίς,
Ἀντιπατριδος,
ἡ,
Antipatris, a city situated between Joppa and Caesarea, in a very fertile region, not far from the coast; formerly called
Χαβαρζαβα (others,
Καφαρσαβα (or
Καφαρσαβα)) (
Josephus, Antiquities 13, 15, 1), and afterward rebuilt by Herod the Great and named Antipatris in honor of his father Antipater (
Josephus,
b. j. 1, 21, 9):
Acts 23:31. Cf. Robinson, Researches etc. 3:45f; Later Researches, iii. 138f (also Bib. Sacr. for 1843, pp. 478-498; and for 1853, p. 528f).