Bible Dictionary

Dorcas

A female antelope, or gazelle, a pious Christian widow at Joppa whom Peter restored to life (Acts 9:36-41). She was a Hellenistic Jewess, called Tabitha by the Jews and Dorcas by the Greeks.

Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)

A female antelope, or gazelle, a pious Christian widow at Joppa whom Peter restored to life (Acts 9:36-41). She was a Hellenistic Jewess, called Tabitha by the Jews and Dorcas by the Greeks.

Smith's Bible Dictionary (1863)

(gazelle).

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible (1898) & Schaff's Bible Dictionary

DOR'CAS (gazelle). See Tabitha.

Hitchcock's Bible Names (1869)

a female roe-deer