Acts 9:36

"Now there was at Joppa. certain disciple named Tabitha, which by interpretation is called Dorcas: this woman was full of good works and almsdeeds which she did" "Joppa" Located on the Mediterranean, about 30 miles south of Caesarea, and about 35 miles NW of Jerusalem. Prior to the building of Caesarea by Herod the Great, Joppa had served as Israel's only port in OT times. "Tabitha" Which is her Aramaic name. "Dorcas" The Greek translation of her name. Both names mean "antelope or gazelle". "It is not unusual in the East to give daughters the names of beautiful animals" (Reese p. 373). "The beauty and grace of the gazelle made it an appropriate name for. woman" (P.P. Comm. p. 287). "Full of good and charitable actions" (Wey). "She had devoted herself to doing good and to acts of charity" (Gspd). "Which she did" That is, did continually.