1. Caesarea (place name) — The proper noun Καισαρία (Kaisareia) referring to the city of Caesarea, either Caesarea Maritima on the Mediterranean coast (the Roman provincial capital of Judea) or Caesarea Philippi in the north. The two clusters differ only in grammatical case distribution (accusative/dative/genitive 15x vs genitive-only 2x), not in referential meaning. Multilingual rendering is consistent: Spanish 'Kaisáreia/Cesarea,' Hindi 'कैसरिया,' Arabic 'قيصريّة,' Korean '가이사랴/가이사리아,' Swahili 'Kaisaria.' Case variation does not warrant separate lexicographic senses. 17×
AR["قَيْصَرِيَّةَ","قَيْصَرِيَّةِ"]·ben["কৈসরিয়া","কৈসরিয়ায়","কৈসরিয়ার"]·DE["Caesarea","Cäsarea"]·EN["Kaisareia","of-Kaisareia"]·FR["Caeser","Césarée"]·heb["קֵיסַרְיָה","קֵיסַרְיָיא","קֵיסָרְיָה","קֵסָרִיָּה"]·HI["कैसरिया","कैसरियामें","कैसरियासे।","कैसरेइअ"]·ID["Kaisarea","Kaisareia,","Kaisareia."]·IT["Cesarea","kaisareias"]·jav["Kaisaria.","Kaisaréa","Kaisaréa,","Kaisaréa.","Kaisaréa;"]·KO["가이사랴까지","가이사랴로","가이사랴로부터","가이사랴에","가이사랴에서","가이사리아","가이사리아-로","가이사리아-에서","가이사리아의"]·PT["Cesareia","Cesareia,","Cesareia.","Cesareia;","de-Cesareia"]·RU["Кесарии","Кесарию","Кесарию;"]·ES["Cesarea","Kaisáreia","de-Kaisareías","de-Kaisaréia"]·SW["-za-Kaisaréia","Kaisaria","Kaisaria,","Kaisaria.","vya-Kaisaria"]·TR["Kaysarya'da","Kaysarya'dan","Kaysarya'ya","Sezariye'de","Sezariye'den","Sezariye'nin","Sezariye'ye"]·urd["قیصریہ"]
Matt 16:13, Mark 8:27, Acts 8:40, Acts 9:30, Acts 10:1, Acts 10:24, Acts 11:11, Acts 12:19, Acts 18:22, Acts 21:8, Acts 21:16, Acts 23:23 (+5 more)
Senses
BDB / Lexicon Reference
Καισαρία (Rec. -άρεια), -ας, ἡ Cæsarea; __1. Cæsarea Philippi, at the foot of Lebanon: Mat.16:13, Mrk.8:27. __2. Cæsarea of Palestine, on the sea-coast: Act.8:4 9:30 10:1, 24 11:11 12:19 18:22 21:8, 16 23:23, 33 25:1, 4 25:6, 13.† (From Abbott-Smith. LSJ has no entry)