Dorcas

3 definitions found

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  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.
     



From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Dorcas, a female roe-deer
  

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:

  Dorcas, WV
    Zip code(s): 26847