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Bible Guide: Priscilla

The wife of Aquila, always mentioned in association with her husband (See AQUILA). The couple showed warm hospitality to individuals, and entertained congregational meetings of Christians in their home both in Rome and in Ephesus (Rom 16:3; I Cor 16:19). Priscilla is also referred to as Prisca (II Tim 4:19).

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Acts 18:2, 18,26. Rom 16:3. I Cor 16:19


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Priscilla (prĭsĭl'ə) [diminutive of Lat. Prisca=ancient], in the New Testament, wife of Aquila.
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Priscilla is an English female given name adopted from the Italian Priscilla, derived from the Latin priscus (old).[1] One suggestion is that it is intended to bestow long life on the bearer.

It appears in the New Testament of the Christian Bible variously as Priscilla and Prisca.[2] The name appears in English literature in Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queen (1596) and was adopted as an English name by the Puritans in the 17th Century. The use of the name began to decline during the 1960s, possibly because of an association with the slang term prissy, in the sense of meaning prim or prudish.[3]

Diminutive forms of the name include Cilla, Pris, Prissy, Prill and Scilla.

Priscilla may refer to:

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Astronomy

  • Priscilla, one of a string of small lunar craters near the crater Davy; see Davy (crater)

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Robotic technology

Ships

  • Priscilla (sloop), a classic oyster dredging sloop and U.S. National Historic Landmark berthed at the Long Island Maritime Museum in West Sayville, New York
  • USS Priscilla (SP-44), the proposed designation of an auxiliary schooner acquired by the United States Navy in 1917 but never commissioned

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References

  1. ^ Harper, Douglas (November 2001). "Priscilla". Online Etymology Dictionary. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Priscilla. Retrieved 2006-08-10. 
  2. ^ Alexander, Joseph Addison (1857). The Acts of the Apostles explained, volume II. London: Nisbet. 
  3. ^ Room, Adrian (2002). Cassell's Dictionary of First Names. Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. ISBN 0304362263. 

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