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Καισάρεια

Transliteration Kaisareia		Pronunciation kī-sä'-rā-ä (Key)
Part of Speech proper locative noun		Root Word (Etymology) From Καῖσαρ (G2541)
TDNT Reference n/a

Caesarea = "severed"

1) Caesarea of Philippi was situated at the foot of Lebanon near the sources of the Jordan in Gaulanitis, and formerly called Paneas; but afterward being rebuilt by Philip the tetrarch, it was called by him Caesarea, in honour of Tiberias Caesar; subsequently called Neronias by Agrippa II, in honour of Nero.

2) Caesarea of Palestine was built near the Mediterranean by Herod the Great on the site of Strabo's Tower, between Joppa and Dora. It was provided with a magnificent harbour and had conferred upon it the name of Caesarea, in honour of Augustus. It was the residence of Roman procurators, and the majority of its inhabitants were Greeks.

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Strong's Number G2542 matches the Greek Καισάρεια (Kaisareia), which occurs 15 times in 15 verses in Act of the Greek concordance of the KJV
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Act 8:40	But Philip was found at Azotus: and passing through he preached in all the cities, till he came to Caesarea²⁵⁴².
Act 9:30	[Which] when the brethren knew , they brought him down to Caesarea²⁵⁴², and sent him forth to Tarsus.
Act 10:1	[G1161] There was a certain man in Caesarea²⁵⁴² called Cornelius, a centurion of the band called the Italian [band],
Act 10:24	And the morrow after they entered into Caesarea²⁵⁴². And Cornelius waited for them , and had called together his kinsmen and near friends.
Act 11:11	And, behold , immediately there were three men already come unto the house where I was , sent from Caesarea²⁵⁴² unto me.
Act 12:19	And when Herod had sought for him, and found him not, he examined the keepers, and commanded that [they] should be put to death . And he went down from Judaea to Caesarea²⁵⁴², and [there] abode .
Act 18:22	And when he had landed at Caesarea²⁵⁴², and gone up , and saluted the church, he went down to Antioch.
Act 21:8	And the next [day] we that were of Paul's company departed , and came unto Caesarea²⁵⁴²: and we entered into the house of Philip the evangelist, which was [one] of the seven; and abode with him.
Act 21:16	[G1161] There went with us also [certain] of the disciples of Caesarea²⁵⁴², and brought with them one Mnason of Cyprus, an old disciple, with whom we should lodge .
Act 23:23	And he called unto [him] two centurions, saying , Make ready two hundred soldiers to go to Caesarea²⁵⁴², and horsemen threescore and ten, and spearmen two hundred, at the third hour of the night;
Act 23:33	Who, when they came to Caesarea²⁵⁴², and delivered the epistle to the governor, presented Paul also before him.
Act 25:1	Now when Festus was come into the province, after three days he ascended from Caesarea²⁵⁴² to Jerusalem.
Act 25:4	But Festus answered , that Paul should be kept at Caesarea²⁵⁴², and that he himself would depart shortly [thither].
Act 25:6	And when he had tarried among them more than ten days, he went down unto Caesarea²⁵⁴²; and the next day sitting on the judgment seat commanded Paul to be brought .
Act 25:13	And after certain days king Agrippa and Bernice came unto Caesarea²⁵⁴² to salute Festus.

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