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Dor⋅cas

  [dawr-kuhs]
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–noun
a Christian woman at Joppa who made clothing for the poor. Acts 9:36–41.
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Dorcas 
fem. proper name, from Gk. dorkas "gazelle." Dorcas Society "ladies' meeting to make clothes for the poor" (1832) is from Acts ix.36-41.
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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 1897 Bible Dictionary
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