Berenice

Latinized form of Φερενίκη (Pherenike), which meant "bringing victory" from phero) meaning "to bring" and nike) meaning "victory" [1] [2] [3] . This name was common among the Ptolemy ruling family of Egypt, a dynasty that was originally from Macedon. It occurs briefly in Acts in the New Testament (in most English Bibles it is spelled Bernice) belonging to a sister of King Herod Agrippa II. As an English name, Berenice came into use after the Protestant Reformation.

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1. Lexicon of Greek Personal Names, available from https://search.lgpn.ox.ac.uk/browse.html?facet-nymRef=Βερενίκη.
2. Liddell, Scott and Jones. An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, entry fe/rw, available from https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0058%3Aentry%3Dfe%2Frw.
3. Liddell, Scott and Jones. An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, entry ni/kh2, available from https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0058%3Aentry%3Dni%2Fkh2.

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