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Acts 8:27 He arose and went; and behold, there was a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch of great authority under Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who was over all her treasure, who had come to Jerusalem to worship. (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV)

Thesaurus

Candace (1 Occurrence)
... It is somewhat singular that female sovereignty seems to have prevailed in Ethiopia,
the name Candace (compare "Pharaoh, " "Ptolemy, " "Caesar") being a title ...
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Ethiopian (11 Occurrences)
... Easton's Bible Dictionary Ethiopian eunuch. The chief officer or prime minister
of state of Candace (qv), queen of Ethiopia. He was ...
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Can'dace (1 Occurrence)
Can'dace. << Candace, Can'dace. Candle >>. Multi-Version Concordance Can'dace
(1 Occurrence). ... << Candace, Can'dace. Candle >>. Reference Bible.
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Treasurer (6 Occurrences)
... Gaza is of Persian origin, meaning "treasure." Found only once in Acts 8:27 concerning
the Ethiopian "who was over all her (Queen Candace's) treasure." In the ...
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Queen (59 Occurrences)
... New Testament we read of the "queen of the south", ie, Southern Arabia, Sheba (Matthew
12:42; Luke 11:31) and the "queen of the Ethiopians" (Acts 8:27), Candace...
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Eunuch (20 Occurrences)
... e-thi-o'-pi-an u'-nuk eunouchos: A man who occupied a leading position as treasurer
at the court of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, and who was converted and ...
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Treasure (66 Occurrences)
... Gaza is of Persian origin, meaning "treasure." Found only once in Acts 8:27 concerning
the Ethiopian "who was over all her (Queen Candace's) treasure." In the ...
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Treasury (25 Occurrences)
... Gaza is of Persian origin, meaning "treasure." Found only once in Acts 8:27 concerning
the Ethiopian "who was over all her (Queen Candace's) treasure." In the ...
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Philip (37 Occurrences)
... desert." As he travelled along this road he was overtaken by a chariot in which
sat a man of Ethiopia, the eunuch or chief officer of Queen Candace, who was at ...
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Ethiopia (26 Occurrences)
... Many secular monuments speak of the high honor paid to women in Ethiopia., and Candace
(Acts 8:27) seems certainly to have been an official or dynastic name ...
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Greek

2582. Kandake -- Candace, a queen of Ethiopia
... Candace, a queen of Ethiopia. Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: Kandake
Phonetic Spelling: (kan-dak'-ay) Short Definition: Candace Definition ...
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Hitchcock's Bible Names

Candace

who possesses contrition

ATS Bible Dictionary

Candace

The name of an Ethiopian queen, whose high treasurer was converted to Christianity under the preaching of Philip the evangelist, Acts 8:27. The Ethiopia over which she ruled was not Abyssinia, but that region of Upper Nubia called by the Greeks Meroe; and is supposed to correspond with the present province of Atbara, lying between thirteen and eighteen degrees north latitude. Extensive ruins found in this neighborhood, and along the upper valley of the Nile, indicate high civilization among the ancient Ethiopians. Pliny and Strabo inform us that for some time before and after the Christian era, Ethiopia Proper was under the government of female sovereigns, who all bore the appellation of Candace. Irenaeus and Eusebius ascribe to Candace's minister her own conversion to Christianity, and the promulgation of the gospel through her kingdom.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

CANDACE

kan'-da-se (Kandake): Queen of the Ethiopians (Acts 8:27). Pliny states that the name Candace had already been borne for many years by the queens of Ethiopia (vi, 29). See ETHIOPIA. Her treasurer, "a eunuch of great authority," was baptized by Philip the Evangelist on his return from worshipping in Jerusalem.

Easton's Bible Dictionary

The queen of the Ethiopians whose "eunuch" or chamberlain was converted to Christianity by the instrumentality of Philip the evangelist (Acts 8:27). The country which she ruled was called by the Greeks Meroe, in Upper Nubia. It was long the centre of commercial intercourse between Africa and the south of Asia, and hence became famous for its wealth (Isaiah 45:14).

It is somewhat singular that female sovereignty seems to have prevailed in Ethiopia, the name Candace (compare "Pharaoh, " "Ptolemy, " "Caesar") being a title common to several successive queens. It is probable that Judaism had taken root in Ethiopia at this time, and hence the visit of the queen's treasurer to Jerusalem to keep the feast. There is a tradition that Candace was herself converted to Christianity by her treasurer on his return, and that he became the apostle of Christianity in that whole region, carrying it also into Abyssinia. It is said that he also preached the gospel in Arabia Felix and in Ceylon, where he suffered martyrdom. (see PHILIP.)