Phenice

red; purple ( --> same as Phoenicia)

Phenice [EBD]

properly Phoenix a palm-tree (as in the R.V.), a town with a harbour on the southern side of Crete (Acts 27:12), west of the Fair Havens. It is now called Lutro.

Phenice [NAVE]

PHENICE, a harbor of Crete, Acts 27:12, 13, 21.

PHENICE [SMITH]

(Acts 27:12) (more properly Phoenix, as it is translated in the Revised Version), the name of a haven in Crete on the south coast. The name was no doubt derived from the Greek word for the palm tree, which Theophrastus says was indigenous in the island. It is the modern Lutro . [See PHOENICE, PHOENICIA; PHOENICIA]

PHENICE [ISBE]

PHENICE - fe-ni'-se.

See PHOENICIA; PHOENIX.