Bible Names

Berea: meaning of the name

Berea means “heavy; weighty.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Berea in Hebrew and Greek

Βέροια G960

Béroia — Berœa, a place in Macedonia

perhaps a provincial from a derivative of G4008 (πέραν) (Perœa, i.e. the region beyond...

Places named Berea

Berea in Scripture

“Berea” appears in 3 verses of the King James Version.

  • Acts 17:10

    And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Berea: who coming thither went into the synagogue of the Jews.

  • Acts 17:13

    But when the Jews of Thessalonica had knowledge that the word of God was preached of Paul at Berea, they came thither also, and stirred up the people.

  • Acts 20:4

    And there accompanied him into Asia Sopater of Berea; and of the Thessalonians, Aristarchus and Secundus; and Gaius of Derbe, and Timotheus; and of Asia, Tychicus and Trophimus.