Bible Person
Meaning: one that brings victory · Female · 3 cross references
Bernice is the daughter of Herod Agrippa I who appears with Agrippa II in the hearing of Paul before Festus. She belongs to the morally compromised Herodian world that surrounds the apostolic witness in Acts. First appears in Acts 25:13.1
AI summary: Bernice matters because the cross references present her as part of the royal audience before whom Paul testifies to the gospel. Her presence underscores the social and political reach of Paul's witness, extending it into the Herodian court itself. The scene also highlights the contrast between apostolic testimony and the decadence of ruling elites. Taken together, the material presents Bernice as a Herodian royal figure present at a major apostolic defense.1
Central Figure
Bernice
Meaning: one that brings victory
Bearer of victory, the eldest daughter of Agrippa I., the Herod Agrippa of Acts 12:20.
Bearer of victory, the eldest daughter of Agrippa I., the Herod Agrippa of Acts 12:20. After the early death of her first husband she was married to her uncle Herod, king of Chalcis. After his death (A.D. 40) she lived in incestuous connection with her brother Agrippa II. (Acts 25:13, 23; 26:30). They joined the Romans at the outbreak of the final war between them and the Jews, and lived afterwards at Rome. 3
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, person metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.