A city near the south coast of Crete, having a harbor, now called Lutro, opening to the southeast. Paul, on his voyage to Rome from Caesarea, was unable to made this port, Ac 27:12.

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

Ac 27:12. Phenice, or rather Phoenix (derived from the Greek, "palmtree"); a town and harbour S. of Crete, which as being safer to winter in the master of Paul's ship made for from Fair Havens, but owing to the tempestuous E.N.E. wind failed to reach. It looked toward the S.W. and N.W. On the S. side of the narrow part of Crete (Strabo x. 4). Situated over against Clauda (Hierocles). Now Lutro, but the description "looking toward S.W. and N.W." no longer applies. Either great changes have occurred in its curving shore, or translated "looking down the S.W. and N.W.," i.e. pointing the opposite direction to these winds, namely, N.E. and S.E. (?)

Phenice, Pheni'ce Phenicia. Phenic'ia

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 later formed a part of the Turkish Empire, it is now part of the state of Lebanon. Ac 11:19; 15:3; 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.'

Phenice. Phe'nice

Harbour on the south coast of Crete. Ac 27:12. Identified with the modern Lutro. The haven is said in the A.V. to lie 'toward the S.W. and N.W.'; this is held to mean that it 'looks toward the N.E. and S.E.'

Pheni'ce

Ac 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]

See Phoenice, Phoenicia