Boyd’s Bible Dictionary:
(1) (Acts 11:19; 15:3). [PHOENICIA.] (2) Phoenix in R. V. A seaport of Crete (Acts 27:12).
Concise Bible Dictionary:
The same as PHOENICE, the coast of Northern Syria, extending south of Tyre, and north of Sidon, being a narrow strip of land in the south, but reaching to the Lebanon range in the N.E. The Phoenicians carried on great commercial enterprises; they established colonies (one of which was at Carthage), and their ships brought in the produce of foreign lands, with which they supplied the East. They became subject successively to the Babylonians, the Persians, the Greeks, and the Romans. Phoenice now forms a part of the Turkish Empire (Acts 11:19; Acts 15:3; Acts 21:2).
The language of the ancient Phoenicians may be said to be only a different dialect from the Hebrew, as shown by ancient inscriptions; and according to Herodotus, the Phoenicians taught the Greeks “letters.”
Strong’s Dictionary of Greek Words:
Meaning:
probably the same as 5404; Phoenix, a place in Crete
Jackson’s Dictionary of Scripture Proper Names:
palm-land (Acts 27:12)