Strong's #4424: Ptolemais (pronounced ptol-em-ah-is')

from Ptolemaios (Ptolemy, after whom it was named); Ptolemais, a place in Palestine:--Ptolemais.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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Ptolemais

Ptolemais or Accho = "warlike"

1) a maritime city of Phoenicia, which got its name, apparently, from Ptolemy Lathyrus, who captured it 103 BC, and rebuilt it more beautifully

Part of Speech: noun proper locative

Relation: from Ptolemaios (Ptolemy, after whom it was named)

Usage:

This word is used 1 times:

 

Acts 21:7: "Tyre, we came to Ptolemais, and saluted the brethren,"