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Apocrypha | References. | Identifi- \Sheet on/ and
Name. | | cation. \ ⅜-in./ No. of Sheet on
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=ABANA=, River |2 Kings v. 12 |_Nahr | 3 |One of the rivers of
| | Abanias_, a |and| Damascus. Now called
(R.V. =ABANAH= | | branch of | 4 | the Barada, rising
or =AMANAH=) | | the _Nahr | | in the Anti-Lebanon,
| | Barada_ | | near Zebdany, flowing
| | | | through Suk Wady,
| | | | Barada, receiving
| | | | the waters of the
| | | | copious spring of ʾAin
| | | | Fijeh, and continuing
| | | | its course through
| | | | Damascus on to the
| | | | great marsh on the
| | | | plain called Bahret el
| | | | Kibliyeh.
| | | |
=ABARIM=, |Num. xxvii. |The range |15 |Mountains beyond
Mountains of | 12; xxxiii. | of _Neba_ | | Jordan, the range of
| 47, 48; | (_Nebo_) | | Nebo.
| Deut. xxxii. | | |
| 49 | | |
| | | |
=ABDON= |Josh. xxi. |_Kh. ʾAbdeh_ | 6 |A city of Ashar, 10
| 30; 1 Chron. | | | miles north of ʾAkka.
| vi. 74 | | | (_Mem._ I. 170; Sh.
| | | | III.)
| | | |
=ABEL=, The |1 Sam. vi. 18 |_Deîr ʾAbân_ |-- |Signifying ‘The
Great Stone of | | (?) near | | great stone of the
| | Beth-shemesh | | meadow’ (R.V.).--M.
| | | | Clermont-Ganneau.
| | | |
=ABEL |2 Sam. xx. |_Abl_ | 6 |Now a village, 6½ miles
BETH-MAACHAH=, | 14, 15, 18; | | | west of Banias, in
(R.V. =ABEL | 1 Kings xv. | | | Naphtali; also called
BETH-MAACAH=) | 20; 2 Kings | | | Abel-maim. (_Mem._ I.
| xv. 29 | | | 85 & 107; Sh. II.)
| | | |
=ABEL-CERAMIM=, |Judg. xi. 33 |_Not |-- |A place east of Jordan,
(R.V. =ABEL- | | identified_ | | beyond ‘Aroer.’
CHERAMIM=) | | | |
| | | |
=ABEL-MAIM= |2 Chron. xvi. |_Abl_ |-- |Apparently identical
| 4 | | | with Abel
| | | | Beth-maachah. (Compare
| | | | with 1 Kings xv. 20.)
| | | |
=ABEL-MEHOLAH= |Judges vii. |_ʾAin Helweh_*|10 |Jerome places it
| 22; 1 Sam. | | | 10 miles south of
| xviii. 19; 2 | | | Scythopolis, or at
| Sam. xxi. 8; | | | the present ‘ʾAin
| 1 Kings iv. | | | Helweh,’ 9½ miles
| 12; xix. 16 | | | south of Beth-shean.
| | | | (_Mem._ II. 231; Sh.
| | | | XII.)--Conder.
| | | |
=ABEL-MIZRAIM= |Gen. l. 11 |_Not |-- |The threshing-floor of
| | identified_ | | Atad. ‘Beyond Jordan.’
| | | | Placed by Jerome at
| | | | Beth Hoglah, on the
| | | | west bank.
| | | |
=ABEL-SHITTIM= |Num. xxxiii. |_Kefrein_, |14 |Known in the days of
| 49 | at northern | | Josephus as Abila; 60
| | margin of | | stadia from the river.
| | Ghôr es | | The town and palms
| | Seîsebân | | have disappeared;
| | | | but an extensive
| | | | acacia-grove and some
| | | | ruins still remain on
| | | | the plain now called
| | | | Seîsebân. (Conder’s
| | | | _Heth and Moab_, p.
| | | | 148.)
| | | |
=ABEZ=, (R.V. |Josh. xix. 20 |_Kh. el | 6 |A town of Issachar,
=EBEZ=) | | Beida_ (?)* | | named between Kishion
| | | | and Remeth. Possibly
| | | | the ruin el Beida =
| | | | ‘white,’ at north
| | | | limit of the plain of
| | | | Esdraelon. (_Mem._ I.
| | | | 309; Sh. V.)--Conder.
| | | |
=ABRONAH= |Num. xxxiii. |_Not |-- |
(Ebronah) | 34, 35 | identified_ | |
| | | |
=ACCAD= |Gen. x. 10 |_Nisibis_ (??)|-- |One of the cities in
| | | | the land of Shinar.
| | | | Nisibis, a city on
| | | | the Khabour river
| | | | at the north-east
| | | | part of Mesopotamia,
| | | | and midway between
| | | | Orfa and Nineveh, is
| | | | generally believed to
| | | | occupy the ancient
| | | | site.
| | | |
=ACCARON= |1 Macc. x. 89 | |-- |_See_ Ekron.
| | | |
=ACCHO=, (R.V. |Judg. i. 31 |_ʾAkka_ | 6 |St. Jean d’Acre. The
=ACCO=) | | | | Ptolemais of the 1st
| | | | Book of Maccabees. A
| | | | seaport town. (_Mem._
| | | | I. 145, 153, 160; Sh.
| | | | III.)
| | | |
=ACHOR=, Valley |Josh. vii. |_Wâdy Kelt_ |14 |Now Wâdy Kelt, the
of | 24, 26; xv. | | | deep ravine south of
| 7; Is. lxv. | | | Jericho. (_Mem._ III.
| 10; Hos. ii. | | | 167; Sh. XVIII.)
| 15 | | |
| | | |
=ACHSHAPH= |Josh. xi. 1; |_Kefr Yasîf_ | 6 |The present village,
| xii. 20; | (?)* | | ‘Kefr Yasîf,’ 6
| xix. 25 | | | miles north-east of
| | | | ‘Accho.’--Conder.
| | | | Named between Beten
| | | | and Alammelech, a city
| | | | in Asher. Kh. Iksâf
| | | | (Sh. II., p. 119), and
| | | | Haifa (Sh. V.), have
| | | | also been proposed.
| | | | (_Mem._ I. 169; Sh.
| | | | III.)
| | | |
=ACHZIB= (1) |Josh. xv. 44; |_ʾAin Kezbeh_ |14 |A city of Judah, named
| Micah i. 14 | (?)* | | with ‘Keilah’ and
| | | | ‘Mareshah.’--Conder.
| | | | _See_ Chezib.
| | | |
=ACHZIB= (2) |Josh. xix. |_ez Zîb_ |-- |The Ecdippa of
| 29; Judg. i. | | | Josephus. The present
| 31; v. 17 | | | town, ‘Ez Zîb,’ 8½
| | | | miles north of ‘Akka’
| | | | in ‘Asher.’ (_Mem._ I.
| | | | 155; Sh. III.)
| | | |
=ADADAH= |Josh. xv. 22 |_ʾAdʾadah_ |14 |One of the cities in
| | | | the south of Judah,
| | | | named with ‘Dimonah’
| | | | and ‘Kedesh.’ Probably
| | | | the present ruin
| | | | Adâdah in the desert
| | | | east of Beersheba.
| | | |
=ADAM= |Josh. iii. 16 |_ed Dâmieh_ |10 |‘A city on the Jordan,
| | (?) | | beside Zarthan.’ The
| | | | name is probably
| | | | preserved in that of
| | | | Tell Dâmieh, near the
| | | | ford of ed Dâmieh.
| | | | (_Mem._ II. 387; Sh.
| | | | XV.)
| | | |
=ADAMAH= |Josh. xix. 36 |_ed Dâmieh_* | 6 |One of the fenced
| | | | cities of Naphtali.
| | | | Now the ruin ‘ed
| | | | Dâmieh,’ 5 miles west
| | | | of Tiberias. (_Mem._
| | | | I. 365; Sh. VI.)
| | | |
=ADAMI=, (R.V. |Josh. xix. 33 |_Kh. Admah_* |10 |A place named as being
=ADAM-NEKEB=) | | | | on the border of
| | | | Naphtali. The present
| | | | ruin ‘Admah,’ 5
| | | | miles south-west of
| | | | the Sea of Galilee.
| | | | (_Mem._ II. 89; Sh.
| | | | IX.)--Conder.
| | | |
=ADAR=, or |Josh. xv. 3; |_Not |-- |A place on the south
=HAZAR ADDAR= | 1 Macc. vii. | identified_ | | boundary of Palestine.
(R.V. =ADDAR=) | 40-45 | | | ‘Jebel Maderah,’
| | | | in the desert, is
| | | | proposed for this
| | | | site. (_Quarterly
| | | | Statement_, p. 61,
| | | | 1881.)
| | | |
=ADASA= | |_Kh. ʾAdaseh_ |14 |According to Josephus
| | | | (12 Ant. x. 5; 5 Wars
| | | | xi. 5) was 30 stadia
| | | | from Beth-horon. Now
| | | | the present ruin
| | | | ʾAdaseh, 8 miles south
| | | | of Jufna. (_Mem._ III.
| | | | 106; Sh. XVII.)
| | | |
=ADDAN=, or |Ezra ii. 59; |_Not |-- |One of the places from
=ADDON= | Neh. vii. 61 | identified_ | | which some of the
| | | | Captivity returned to
| | | | Judea, who could not
| | | | show their pedigree.
| | | |
=ADIDA= |1 Macc. xii. |_Hadîtheh_ |10 |A town on an eminence
| 38; xiii. 13 | | | (13 Ant. vi. 4) in the
| | | | Shephelah. The present
| | | | village Hadîtheh,
| | | | close to Lydda on
| | | | east. _See_ Hadid.
| | | | (_Mem._ II. 297; Sh.
| | | | XIV.)
| | | |
=ADITHAIM= |Josh. xv. 36 |_Hadîtheh_ |-- |A town in the territory
| | | | of Judah. Somewhere
| | | | in the Shephelah.
| | | | Named between Gederah
| | | | (Jedîreh) and
| | | | Gederothaim, thought
| | | | to be another name for
| | | | Hadid, which see.
| | | |
=ADMAH= |Gen. x. 19; |_Not |-- |One of the cities of
| xiv. 2-8; | identified_ | | the plain mentioned
| Deut. xxix. | | | with ‘Zeboim.’
| 23; Hosea | | | Possibly ‘Adam’ (Sheet
| xi. 8 | | | X.), or ‘el Adeimeh’
| | | | (Sheet XIV.), in the
| | | | region of the Ciccar.
| | | | (Conder’s _Handbook to
| | | | the Bible_, p. 241,
| | | | and _Primer of Bible
| | | | Geography_, p. 38.)
| | | |
=ADORAIM= |2 Chron. xi. 9|_Dûra_ |14 |A fortified city, built
| | | | by Rehoboam--the
| | | | ‘Adora’ of Josephus.
| | | | Now the village of
| | | | ‘Dura,’ 5 miles west
| | | | of Hebron. (_Mem._
| | | | III. 301-304; Sh. XXI.)
| | | |
=ADORA= |1 Macc. xiii. |_Dûra_ |14 |The Dûra of Josephus =
(Adoraim) | 20 | | | Adoraim.
| | | |
=ADULLAM= |Gen. xxxviii. |_ʾAîd el |14 |A city of Judah in
| 1, 12-20; | Mîyeh_, or | | the low country.
| Josh. xii. | _Kh. ʾAîd el | | Eusebius places it
| 15; xv. 35; | Ma_ | | 10 miles east of
| 2 Chron. xi. | | | Eleutheropolis (Beit
| 7; Neh. xi. | | | Jibrin.) ‘Kh. ʾAid el
| 30; Micah i. | | | Mâ’ is about 8 miles
| 15; 2 Macc. | | | to the north-east.
| xii. 38 | | | A discovery of M.
| | | | Clermont-Ganneau, now
| | | | generally recognised.
| | | | (_Mem._ III. 311; Sh.
| | | | XXI.)
| | | |
=ADULLAM=, Cave |1 Sam. xxii. |The cave near |14 |David’s hiding place.
of | 1; 2 Sam. | the ruins | | The cave near the
| xxiii. 13; 1 | of _ʾAîd el | | ruins of ʾAîd el Mâ.
| Chron. xi. 15| Mîyeh_ | |
| | | |
=ADUMMIM=, |Josh. xv. 7; |_Tʾalat ed |14 |On the road from
‘Going up to,’ | xviii. 17 | Dumm_* | | Jerusalem to Jericho.
or ‘of’ | | | | (_Mem._ III. 172; Sh.
| | | | XVIII.)--Mr. C. F. T.
| | | | Drake.
| | | |
=AHAVA=, River |Ezra viii. |_Hit_ (?) |-- |Not identified with
of (A Place or | 15, 21, 31 | | | any certainty, but
a River) | | | | supposed to be the
| | | | modern ‘Hit’ on the
| | | | Euphrates, due east of
| | | | Damascus. The Theras
| | | | of Esd. viii. 41-61.
| | | |
=AHLAB= |Judg. i. 31 |_el Jish_ (?) | 6 |A city of Asher, from
| | | | which the Canaanites
| | | | were not driven out.
| | | | Supposed to be the
| | | | Giscala of Josephus
| | | | and the Talmudic Gush
| | | | Halab. The modern
| | | | village, ‘el Jish,’ is
| | | | thought to represent
| | | | the ancient site;
| | | | but ‘el Jish’ is in
| | | | Naphtali, some 6 miles
| | | | from the territory of
| | | | Asher. (_Mem._ I. 225;
| | | | Sh. IV.)
| | | |
=AI=, =HAI=, |Gen. xii. 8; |_et Tell, or |14 |Called by Josephus
or =AIATH= | xiii. 3; | Kh. Haiyan_* | | ʾAina; was ‘close to’
(Isaiah x. 28) | Josh. vii. | | | Bethel. The claims
Aija, same as | 2-5; viii. | | | to this royal city
Ai (Neh. xi. | 1-29; ix. | | | lie between ‘et Tel,’
31) | 3; x. 1, 2; | | | a mound 1⅜ miles to
| xii. 9; Ezra | | | the E.S.E. of Bethel,
| ii. 28; Neh. | | | and ‘Kh. Haiyan,’
| vii. 32; | | | near Deir Diwan, 2⅛
| Jer. xlix. 3 | | | miles S.E. of Bethel.
| | | | The former advocated
| | | | by Col. Sir Charles
| | | | Wilson and others, the
| | | | latter by Capt. Conder
| | | | (_Mem._ II. 372; III.
| | | | 30; Sh. XVII.)
| | | |
=AIJALON= or |Josh. xix. |_Yâlô_ |14 |The present village
=AJALON= | 42; xxi. 24; | | | Yâlô, a little to
| Judg. i. 35; | | | the north of the
| 1 Sam. xiv. | | | Jaffa road, about 13
| 31; 1 Chron. | | | miles from Jerusalem.
| vi. 69; | | | (_Mem._ III. 19; Sh.
| viii. 13; 2 | | | XVII.)
| Chron. xi. | | |
| 10; xxviii. | | |
| 18 | | |
| | | |
=AIJALON=, |Josh. x. 12 |_Merj Ibn |14 |The valley in which
Valley of | | ʾAmîr_ | | Aijalon is situated.
| | | |
=AIJALON= |Judg. xii. 12 |_Kh. Jallûn_ |-- |A town of Zebulun, the
| | (??) | | burial-place of Elon,
| | | | one of the Judges of
| | | | Israel.
| | | |
=AIN= (1) |Josh. xv. 32; |_Not |13 |One of the southern
| xix. 7; xxi. | identified_ | | cities of Judah
| 16; 1 Chron. | | | towards the coast of
| iv. 32 | | | Edom, mentioned with
| | | | Rimmon (Josh. xv. 32),
| | | | afterwards allotted
| | | | to Simeon (Josh. xix.
| | | | 7). Possibly Ain and
| | | | Rimmon were one place
| | | | = En-rimmon, which see.
| | | |
=AIN= (2) |Num. xxxiv. 11|_ʾAin el |-- |Supposed to be ʾAin el
| | ʾAsy_ (?) | | ʾAsy, the main source
| | | | of the Orontes, near
| | | | Riblah.
| | | |
=AKRABBIM=, |Num. xxxiv. |_Not |-- |Perhaps the range of
Ascent of | 4; Judges i. | identified_ | | cliffs at the south
| 36 | | | end of the Dead Sea,
| | | | or Nakib ibn Mar.
| | | | _See_ Maaleh Acrabbim.
| | | |
=ALAMMELECH= |Josh. xix. 26 |_Not |-- |Between Achshaph
| | identified_ | | and Amad in Asher.
| | | | Supposed by some that
| | | | Wâdy el Melek (Sheet
| | | | V.) is a relic of this
| | | | name.
| | | |
=ALEMA= |1 Macc. v. 26 |_Kefr el Ma_ | 7 |Only once mentioned.
| | (?)* | | Described as a city
| | | | ‘strong and great
| | | | in Gilead.’ ʾAlma,
| | | | some 8 miles south
| | | | of Edrei.--Merrill.
| | | | Kefr el Ma, a village
| | | | east of the Sea of
| | | | Galilee.--Schumacher.
| | | |
=ALEMETH=, |1 Chron. vi. |_ʾAlmît_ |14 |The present ruined
(R.V. | 60; viii. | | | village ʾAlmît, 3½
=ALLEMETH=) | 36; ix. 42 | | | miles north-east of
| | | | Jerusalem. _See_
| | | | Bahurim. (_Mem._ III.
| | | | 35; Sh. XVII.)
| | | |
=ALEXANDRIA= |3 Macc. ii. |_Alexandria_ |-- |
| 30; iii. 1, | | |
| 21; Acts | | |
| xviii. 24; | | |
| vi. 9 | | |
| | | |
=ALLON= |Josh. xix. 33 | |-- |The ‘Revised Version’
| | | | renders this name ‘The
| | | | Oak,’ others ‘Plain.’
| | | |
=ALLON-BACHUTH= |Gen. xxxv. 8 | |10 |‘Beneath Bethel,’ where
(R.V. | | | | Deborah, the nurse of
=ALLON-BACUTH=)| | | | Rebekah was buried.
| | | |
=ALMON= |Josh. xxi. 18 |_ʾAlmît_ |14 |Same as Alemeth
| | | | (ʾAlmît) in Benjamin.
| | | | (_Mem._ III. 35; Sh.
| | | | XVIII.)
| | | |
=ALMON |Num. xxxiii. |_Kh. |-- |_See_ Beth-diblathaim.
DIBLATHAIM= | 46, 47 | Deleiyât_ | | One of the
| | (??)* | | camping-stations
| | | | of the Israelites,
| | | | between Dibon-gad
| | | | and the mountains
| | | | of Abarim. In Moab.
| | | | (Conder’s _Heth and
| | | | Moab_, page 269.)
| | | |
=ALOTH= (R.V. |1 Kings iv. 16|_Not | 6 |(?) A town or district.
=BEALOTH=) | | identified_ | | Perhaps ʾAlia, east
| | | | of Achzib. (_Mem._ I.
| | | | 170; Sh. III.)--Conder.
| | | |
=ALUSH= |Num. xxxiii. |_Not |-- |One of the
| 13 | identified_ | | camping-stations of
| | | | the Israelites next to
| | | | Rephidim.
| | | |
=AMAD= |Josh. xix. 26 |_Kh. el | 6 |A town in Asher,
| | ʾAmûd_ (?)* | | mentioned between
| | | | Alammelech and
| | | | Misheal. Probably
| | | | el ʾAmûd, north of
| | | | Akka.--Conder. There
| | | | is also a ruined town
| | | | called Umm el ʾAmûd,
| | | | between Bethlehem and
| | | | Abez, south of Wâdy
| | | | el Melek, which some
| | | | identify with Amad.
| | | | (_Mem._ I. 170; Sh.
| | | | III.)
| | | |
=AMAM= |Josh. xv. 26 |_Not |-- |A city in the south of
| | identified_ | | Judah, mentioned with
| | | | ‘Shema’ and ‘Moladah.’
| | | |
=AMANA= |Cant. iv. 8 |_Not |-- |Apparently a mountain
| | identified_ | | in or near Lebanon. It
| | | | is commonly assumed
| | | | that this is the
| | | | mountain in which
| | | | the river Abana has
| | | | its source. (Smith’s
| | | | _Dictionary to the
| | | | Bible_.)
| | | |
=AMATHIS= |1 Macc. xii. |_Hamath_ |-- |‘The land of Amathis.’
| 25 | | | Believed to be the
| | | | district of Hamath in
| | | | the north of Palestine.
| | | |
=AMMAH=, THE |2 Sam. ii. 24 |_Not |-- |‘That lieth before Giah
HILL OF | | identified_ | | by the way of the
| | | | wilderness of Gibeon.’
| | | |
=ANAB= |Josh. xi. 21; |_ʾAnâb_ |13 |The ruin ‘ʾAnâb,’ 2½
| xv. 50 | | | miles west of ‘Debir.’
| | | | (_Mem._ III. 392, 393;
| | | | Sh. XXIV.)
| | | |
=ANAHARATH= |Josh. xix. 19 |_en Nʾaûrah_ |10 |The village, ‘en
| | | | Nʾaûrah,’ 5½ miles
| | | | north-east of Jezreel,
| | | | in Issachar. (_Mem._
| | | | II. 85; Sh. IX.)--De
| | | | Saulcy.
| | | |
=ANANIAH= |Neh. xi. 32 |_Beit Hannîna_|14 |Named between ‘Nob’ and
| | | | ‘Hazor.’ The present
| | | | village Beit Hannîna
| | | | near Gibeon. (_Mem._
| | | | III. 8; Sh. XVII.)
| | | |
=ANATHOTH= |Josh. xxi. |_ʾAnâta_ |14 |The village ʾAnâta
| 18; 1 Kings | | | of Benjamin, 3
| ii. 26; 1 | | | miles north-east of
| Chron. vi. | | | Jerusalem. _(Mem._
| 60; Ezra ii. | | | III. 7; Sh. XVII.)
| 23; Neh. | | |
| vii. 27; xi. | | |
| 32; Isa. x. | | |
| 30; Jer. i. | | |
| 1; xi. 21, | | |
| 23; xxix. | | |
| 27; xxxii. | | |
| 7, 9; 2 Sam. | | |
| xxiii. 27; 1 | | |
| Esdr. v. 18 | | |
| | | |
=ANEM= |1 Chron. vi. |_ʾAnîn_ (?)* |10 |Probably the village
| 73 | | | ‘ʾÂnîn,’ west of the
| | | | plain of Esdraelon.
| | | | A city of Issachar.
| | | | (_Mem._ II. 44 and 50;
| | | | Sh. VIII.)--Conder.
| | | |
=ANER= |1 Chron. vi. |_Ellar_ (??)* |10 |Possibly ‘Ellar,’ in
| 70 | | | the hills south-west
| | | | of the plain of
| | | | Esdraelon. A city of
| | | | Manasseh. (_Mem._ II.
| | | | 154; Sh. XI.)--Conder.
| | | |
=ANIM= |Josh xv. 50 |_Ghuwein_ |14 |Now a ruin called
| | | | ‘Ghuwein,’--south
| | | | of Hebron, and near
| | | | ‘Eshtemoa.’ (_Mem._
| | | | III. 408; Sh. XXV.)
| | | |
=ANTI-LIBANUS= |Judith i. 7 |_Anti-Lebanon_|-- |The range of mountains
| | | | west of Damascus.
| | | |
=ANTIOCH= |1 Macc. iii. |_Antakîa_ |-- |The modern Antakîa
| 37; iv. 35; | | | on the Orontes.
| xi. 13; 2 | | | North-east of ‘Daphne.’
| Macc. iv. | | |
| 33; viii. | | |
| 35; xiii. | | |
| 23; v. 21; | | |
| xi. 36 | | |
| | | |
=APHEK= (1) |Josh. xii. 18 |_Not |-- |Somewhere in Judah.
| | identified_ | |
| | | |
=APHEK= (2) |Josh. xix. 30 |_Not |-- |Somewhere in Asher.
| | identified_ | | In Judg. i. 31 it is
| | probably | | rendered Aphik.
| | same as | |
| | Aphek (3) | |
| | | |
=APHEK= (3) |Josh. xiii. 4 |_Afka_ (?) |-- |Probably ‘Afka’ on the
| | | | north-west slope of
| | | | Lebanon--perhaps the
| | | | same as (2).
| | | |
=APHEK= (4) |1 Sam. iv. 1 |_Not |14 |Possibly the present
| | identified_ | | ruin of ‘Belled el
| | | | Foka’ = Upper town,
| | | | near Gath. (_Mem._
| | | | III. 109; Sh. XVII.)
| | | |
=APHEK= (5) |1 Sam. xxix. 1|_Fukûʾa_ (??)*|10 |Possibly the modern
| | | | village ‘Fukûʾa’ on
| | | | ‘Gilboa,’ in Issachar.
| | | | (_Mem._ II. 84; Sh.
| | | | IX.)--Conder.
| | | |
=APHEK= (6) |1 Kings xx. |_Fîk_ | 7 |A walled city in the
| 26, 30; 2 | | | Mishor, east of the
| Kings xiii. | | | Jordan; believed to
| 17 | | | be the village ‘Fîk,’
| | | | east of the Sea of
| | | | Galilee, on the
| | | | highway to Damascus.
| | | |
=APHEKAH= |Josh. xv. 53 |_Not |-- |In the mountains of
| | identified_--| | Judah, (?) the same
| | perhaps same | | place as that of Josh.
| | as _Aphek_ | | xii. 18.
| | (1) | |
| | | |
=APHEREMA= |1 Macc. xi. 34|_Ephraim_ |-- |Probably the same
| | | | as Ephraim (Ophrah
| | | | Taiyibeh), which see.
| | | |
=APHIK= |Judg. i. 31 |Same as |-- |
| | _Aphek_ (2) | |
| | | |
=APHRAH= (R.V. |Micah i. 10 |_Not |-- |Probably in the low
=BETH-APHRAH=) | | identified_ | | country of Judah.
| | | | Supposed by some to be
| | | | Ophrah.
| | | |
=AR OF MOAB= |Num. xxi. 28; |_Rabba_ |14 |The ruin ‘Rabba,’ north
| Deut. ii. 9, | | | of ‘Kerak,’ known in
| 18, 29; Isa. | | | the time of Jerome
| xv. 1 | | | as ‘Areopolis’ and
| | | | Rabbath-Moab.
| | | |
=ARAB= |Josh. xv. 52 |_Kh. er |14 |The present ruin,
| | Rabîyeh_* | | er Rabîyeh, in the
| | | | mountains of Judah,
| | | | south of Hebron.
| | | | (_Mem._ III. 311-360;
| | | | Sh. XXI.)--Conder.
| | | |
=ARABAH= |Josh. xviii. |_The Ghôr_ |-- |The great Jordan Valley.
| 18 | and the | |
| | _ʾArabah_ | |
| | | |
=ARABATTINE= |1 Macc. v. 3 |_Acrabbim_ |-- |In Idumea. Akrabbim
| | | | (ascent of), which see.
| | | |
=ARABIA= |1 Kings x. | |-- |
| 15; 2 Chron. | | |
| ix. 14; Is. | | |
| xxi. 13; | | |
| Jer. xxv. | | |
| 24; Ezek. | | |
| xxvii. 21; | | |
| Judith ii. | | |
| 25; 1 Macc. | | |
| xi. 16; 2 | | |
| Macc. xii. | | |
| 11; 2 Esd. | | |
| xv. 29; Gal. | | |
| i. 17; iv. 25| | |
| | | |
=ARAD= |Num. xxi. 1; |_Tell ʾArâd_ |14 |Named with ‘Hormah’ and
| xxxiii. 40; | | | ‘Libnah.’ The large
| Josh. xii. | | | ruin Tell ʾArâd, east
| 14; Judg. i. | | | of Beersheba. (_Mem._
| 16 | | | II. 403, 415; Sh. XXV.)
| | | |
=ARADUS= |1 Macc. xv. 23|_Island Er |-- |Same as Arvad.
| | Ruad_ | |
| | | |
=ARAM= (Syria) |Gen. x. 22, | |-- |The country from the
| 23; xxii. | | | Sea of Galilee to
| 21; Num. | | | Euphrates and north
| xxiii. 7; 1 | | | part of Mesopotamia.
| Chr. i. 17; | | | Aram means ‘highlands.’
| ii. 23 | | |
| | | |
=ARAM-DAMMESEK= |2 Sam. viii. | |-- |The country round
(Syria of | 5, 6; 1 Chr. | | | Damascus.
Damascus) | xviii. 5, 6 | | |
| | | |
=ARAM-BETH- |2 Sam. x. 6 | |-- |District bordering on
REHOB= | | | | the Euphrates.
| | | |
=ARAM-MAACHAH= |1 Chron. xix. | |-- |District south of Aram
| 6 | | | Zobah and west of Aram
| | | | Beth-rehob.
| | | |
=ARAM-NAHARAIM= |Gen. xxiv. | |-- |Mesopotamia.
| 10; Deut. | | |
| xxiii. 4; | | |
| Judg. iii. | | |
| 8; 1 Chron. | | |
| xix. 6; Ps. | | |
| lx., Title | | |
| | | |
=ARAM-ZOBAH= |2 Sam. x. | |-- |Eastward of CoeleSyria,
| 6-8; Ps. | | | extending north-east
| lx., Title | | | and east to the
| | | | Euphrates.
| | | |
=ARARAT= |Gen. viii. 4; | |-- |_See_ Smith’s _Bible
| 2 Kings xix. | | | Dictionary_.
| 37; Isa. | | |
| xxxvii. 38; | | |
| Jer. li. 27 | | |
| | | |
=ARARATH=, |Tobit i. 21 |_Same as |-- |
=ARARAH=, The | | Ararat_ | |
Mountains of | | | |
| | | |
=ARBATTIS= |1 Macc. v. 23 |_Not |-- |A district of
| | identified_ | | Palestine. Probably
| | | | either that north
| | | | of the Sea of
| | | | Galilee, called ‘Ard
| | | | el Batîhah,’ or
| | | | ‘Acrabatene,’ between
| | | | Jericho and Neapolis.
| | | |
=ARBA= |Josh. xv. 13; |_El Khalîl_ |-- |_See_ Hebron.
| xxi. 11 | (Hebron) | |
| | | |
=ARBAH= |Gen. xxxv. 27 |_Do._ do._ |-- |
| | | |
=ARBELA= |1 Macc. ix. 2 |_Kh. Irbid_ | 6 |The present ruin
| | | | ‘Irbid,’ west of
| | | | the Sea of Galilee.
| | | | (_Mem._ I. 365, 366;
| | | | Sh. VI.)
| | | |
=ARBONAI=, River|Judith ii. 24 |_Not |-- |
| | identified_ | |
| | | |
=ARCHI= |Josh. xvi. |_ʾAin ʾArîk_* |14 |The present village
| 2; 2 Sam. | | | ʾAin ʾArîk. (_Mem._
| xv. 32; xvi. | | | III. 7; Sh.
| 16; xvii. 5, | | | XVII.)--Conder.
| 14; 1 Chron. | | |
| xxvii. 33 | | |
| | | |
=ARDATH= |2 Esd. ix. 26 |_Not |-- |‘The field called
| | identified_ | | Ardath.’
| | | |
=ARGOB= |Deut. iii. 4, |_el Lejjah_ | 8 |A district of country
| 13, 14; 1 | | | in Bashan, in later
| Kings iv. 13 | | | times Trachonitis, now
| | | | called el Lejjah.
| | | |
| | | | Dr. Porter says: ‘It
| | | | is wholly composed of
| | | | black basalt, which
| | | | appears to have issued
| | | | from innumerable
| | | | pores in the earth
| | | | in a liquid state,
| | | | and to have flowed
| | | | out on every side.
| | | | Before cooling its
| | | | surface was violently
| | | | agitated, and it was
| | | | afterwards shattered
| | | | and rent by internal
| | | | convulsions. The
| | | | cuplike cavities from
| | | | which the liquid mass
| | | | was extruded are still
| | | | seen, and likewise the
| | | | wavy surface a thick
| | | | liquid assumes which
| | | | cools while flowing.
| | | | The rock is filled
| | | | with little pits and
| | | | air-bubbles: it is
| | | | hard as flint, and
| | | | emits a sharp metallic
| | | | sound when struck.
| | | | This ungainly and
| | | | forbidding region is
| | | | thickly studded with
| | | | deserted cities and
| | | | villages, in all of
| | | | which the dwellings
| | | | are solidly built’ (p.
| | | | 238).
| | | |
=ARIEL= |Isa. xxix. 1, |_Jerusalem_ |-- |The city where David
| 2, 7 | (?) | | encamped. (R.V.)
| | | |
=ARIOCH=, Plain |Judith i. 6 |_Not |-- |In the Euphrates
of | | identified_ | | country.
| | | |
=ARMENIA= (R.V. |2 Kings xix. | | |
=ARARAT=) | 37; Isa. | | |
| xxxvii. 38 | | |
| | | |
=ARNON=, River |Num. xxi. |_Wâdy Môjib_ |15 |Wâdy Môjib, eastern
(R.V. =ARNON=, | 13-28; xxii. | | | side of Dead Sea.
Valley of) | 36; Deut. | | |
| ii. 24, 36; | | |
| iii. 8, 12, | | |
| 16; iv. 48; | | |
| Josh. xii. | | |
| 1, 2; xiii. | | |
| 9, 16; Judg. | | |
| xi. 13, 26; | | |
| 2 Kings x. | | |
| 33; Isa. | | |
| xvi. 2; Jer. | | |
| xlviii. 20 | | |
| | | |
=AROER= (1) |Deut. ii. |_ʾArʾaîr_ |15 |The ruin ʾArʾaîr, on
| 36; iii. | | | the north bank of Wâdy
| 12; iv. 48; | | | Môjib.
| Josh. xii. | | |
| 2; xiii. 9, | | |
| 16; Judg. | | |
| xi. 26, 33; | | |
| 2 Sam. xxiv. | | |
| 5; 2 Kings | | |
| x. 33; 1 | | |
| Chron. v. 8; | | |
| Jer. xlviii. | | |
| 19 | | |
| | | |
=AROER= (2) |Num. xxxii. |_Not |-- |A town ‘built’ by, and
| 34; Josh. | identified_ | | belonging to, Gad. (?)
| xiii. 25 | | | the same as (1).
| | | |
=AROER= (3) |1 Sam. xxx. 28|_ʾArʾarah_ |21 |The ruin ʾArʾarah,
| | | | 12 miles east of
| | | | Beersheba.
| | | |
=AROER= (4) |Isa. xvii. 2 |_Not |-- |
| | identified_ | |
| | | |
=ARPAD=, or |2 Kings |_Tell Erfâd_ |-- |13 miles north of
=ARPHAD= | xviii. 34; | | | Aleppo.
| xix. 13; | | |
| Isa. x. 9; | | |
| xxxvi. 19; | | |
| xxxvii. 13; | | |
| Jer. xlix. 23| | |
| | | |
=ARSARETH= |2 Esdr. xiii. |_Not |-- |A district beyond the
| 45 | identified_ | | Euphrates.
| | | |
=ARUBOTH= (R.V. |1 Kings iv. |_Not |-- |One of the provinces
=ARRUBBOTH=) | 10; 8 Ant. | identified_ | | of Solomon, which
| 2, 3 | | | included Sochoh.
| | | |
=ARUMAH= |Judg. ix. 41 |_El ʾOrmeh_ |10 |Possibly el ʾOrmeh, 6
| | (?) | | miles south-east of
| | | | Shechem. (_Mem._ II.
| | | | 387; Sh. XV.)
| | | |
=ARVAD= |Ezek. xxvii. |_Er Ruad |-- |_See_ Aradus.
| 8-11 | Island_ | |
| | | |
=ASCALON= |Judith ii. |_ʾAskalân_ |-- |Ashkelon, which see.
| 28; 1 Macc. | | |
| x. 86; xi. | | |
| 60; xii. 33 | | |
| | | |
=ASER= |Tobit i. 2 |_Not |-- |Probably a corruption
| | identified_ | | of Hazor.
| | | |
=ASHAN= |Josh. xv. 42; |_Not |13 |Possibly the old ruin
| xix. 7; 1 | identified_ | | of ‘ʾAseileh,’ which
| Chr. iv. 32; | | | is 3½ miles from
| vi. 59 | | | the now accepted
| | | | site of ‘Rimmon.’
| | | | (_Mem._ III. 393; Sh.
| | | | XXIV.)--Conder.
| | | |
=ASHDOD=, or |Josh. xi. |_Esdûd_ |13 |The large village
=AZOTUS= | 22; xv. 46, | | | ‘Esdud,’ in the plain
| 47; 1 Sam. | | | of Philistia. (_Mem._
| v. 1-7; vi. | | | II. 409; Sh. XVI.)
| 17; 2 Chr. | | |
| xxvi. 6; | | |
| Neh. xiii. | | |
| 23, 24; Isa. | | |
| xx. 1; Jer. | | |
| xxv. 20; Am. | | |
| i. 8; iii. | | |
| 9; Zep. ii. | | |
| 4; Zech. ix. | | |
| 6 | | |
| | | |
=ASHDOTH |Deut. iii. |_ʾAyûn Mûsa_, |15 |In the old version is
PISGAH= | 17; iv. 49; | or _The | | rendered ‘The springs
(=PISGAH=, | Josh. x. | Slopes of | | of Pisgah,’ and
Slopes of, | 40; xii. 3; | Neba_ | | has generally been
R.V.) | xiii. 20 | | | identified with ‘ʾAyûn
| | | | Mûsa,’ the famous
| | | | springs under Mount
| | | | Nebo. The Revised
| | | | Version gives ‘the
| | | | slopes of Pisgah.’
| | | | (_Heth and Moab_, p.
| | | | 131.)
| | | |
=ASHER=, Tribe |Josh. xix. | |-- |
of | 24-31; | | |
| Josephus v. | | |
| Ant. 1, 22 | | |
| | | |
=ASHER= |Josh. xvii. 7 |_Not |-- |Named with Michmethah
| | identified_ | | as being on the
| | | | borders of Manasseh.
| | | | According to Reland
| | | | it is a double name
| | | | Asherham-Michmethah.
| | | | (Conder’s _Handbook to
| | | | the Bible_, p. 264,
| | | | and _Mem._ II. 169;
| | | | Sh. XI.)
| | | |
=ASHKELON=, |Judg. i. 18; |_ʾAskalân_ |13 |The present ruined city
=ASKELON= | xiv. 19; 1 | | | ʾAskalân, on the coast
| Sam. vi. | | | of Philistia. (_Mem._
| 17; 2 Sam. | | | III. 237; Sh. XIX.)
| i. 20; Jer. | | |
| xxv. 20; | | |
| xlvii. 5, 7; | | |
| Am. i. 8; | | |
| Zeph. ii. 4, | | |
| 7; Zech. ix. | | |
| 5 | | |
| | | |
=ASHKENAZ= |Jer. li. 27 | | |One of the ‘Kingdoms of
| | | | Ararat.’
| | | |
=ASHNAH= (1) |Josh. xv. 33 |_Kefr Hasan_ |14 |‘A city of Judah.’ The
| | (?)* | | ruined town ‘ʾAslin,’
| | | | between ‘Zorah’ and
| | | | Eshtaol, has been
| | | | proposed for this site.
| | | |
=ASHNAH= (2) |Josh. xv. 43 |_Not |-- |‘A city of Judah.’
| | identified_ | | Idhnah, 5 miles
| | | | south-east of Beit
| | | | Jibrin, has been
| | | | suggested.
| | | |
=ASHTAROTH= |Deut. i. 4; |_Tell | 7 |‘A city in Bashan.’
| Josh. ix. | ʾAshtarah_ | | Very probably Tell
| 10; xii. 4; | (?) | | ʾAshtarah in Jaulan.
| xiii. 12, | | | (_Across the Jordan_,
| 31; 1 Chron. | | | p. 209.)
| vi. 71 | | |
| | | |
=ASHTEROTH |Gen. xiv. 5; |_Tell | 7 |The Samaritan version
KARNAIM= | 1 Macc. v. | ʾAshtarah_ | | of the Pentateuch
| 26, 43, 44; | (?) | | renders ‘Ashteroth
| 2 Macc. xii. | | | Karnaim,’ by the name
| 21, 26 | | | ‘Sunamein,’ a town on
| | | | the Haj road, 28 miles
| | | | south of Damascus.
| | | | Tell ʾAshtarah farther
| | | | north is also possible.
| | | |
=ASIA= |2 Esdr. xv. |Asia Minor |-- |Asia is here used in
| 46; xvi. | | | its earlier sense,
| 1; 1 Macc. | | | for Asia Minor or the
| viii. 6; xi. | | | country north of the
| 13; xii. 39; | | | Tarsus mountains.
| xiii. 32; 2 | | |
| Macc. iii. | | |
| 3; x. 24 | | |
| | | |
=ASPHAR=, The |1 Macc. ix. |_Not |-- |In the wilderness of
Pool of | 33; Ant. | identified_ | | Tekoa.
| xiii. 1, 2 | | |
| | | |
=ASSYRIA= |Very | |-- |
| frequently | | |
| mentioned | | |
| | | |
=ATAD=, |Gen. l. 10, 11|_Not | |‘Beyond Jordan.’
Threshing | | identified_ | |
floor of | | | |
| | | |
=ATARGATIS=, |2 Macc. xii. |At _Ashteroth |-- |
Temple of | 26 | Karnaim_ | |
| | | |
=ATAROTH= (1) |Num. xxxii. |_Kh. |15 |In the land of Jazer
| 3, 34 | ʾAttarûs_ (?)| | and Gilead, built by
| | | | Gad. Possibly the
| | | | ruins of ʾAttarus,
| | | | north of the river
| | | | Arnon.
| | | |
=ATAROTH= (2) |Josh. xvi. 7 |_Not |10 |Perhaps ‘Tell et
| | identified_ | | Trûny,’ at the foot
| | | | of the hills in the
| | | | Jordan Valley. (_Mem._
| | | | II. 403; Sh. XV.; also
| | | | p. 393, under the name
| | | | Kh. Kaswah.)--Conder.
| | | |
=ATAROTH= (3) |Josh. xvi. 2 |Same as |-- |
| | _Ataroth | |
| | Adar_ | |
| | | |
=ATAROTH ADAR= |Josh. xvi. 2, |_Kh. ed |14 |Now the ruined Dârieh,
| 5; xviii. | Dârieh_* | | west of Bethoron.
| 13; 1 Chron. | | | (_Mem._ III. 35; Sh.
| ii. 54 | | | XVII.)--Conder.
| | | |
=ATHACH= |1 Sam. xxx. 30|_Not |-- |
| | identified_ | |
| | | |
=ATHENS= |2 Macc. vi. | |-- |
| 1; ix. 15 | | |
| | | |
=ATROTH-BETH- |R.V., 1 | | |
JOAB= | Chron. ii. 54| | |
| | | |
=ATROTH-SHOPHAN=|Num. xxxii. 35|_Not |-- |A city of Gad. Named
| | identified_ | | between ‘Aroer and
| | | | Jaazer.’
| | | |
=AVA=, or |2 Kings xvii. |_Not |-- |Supposed to be the same
=IVAH= (R.V. | 24; xviii. 34| identified_ | | place as Ahava, which
=AVVA= and | | | | see.
=IVVAH=) | | | |
| | | |
=AVEN=, The |Amos i. 5 |_Not |-- |
Plain of (R.V. | | identified_ | |
Valley of) | | | |
| | | |
=AVEN=, High |Hos. x. 8 |_Bethaven_ |10 |Beitîn.
Places of | | | & |
| | |14 |
| | | |
=AVEN= |Ezek. xxx. 17 |_On_; |-- |The sacred city of
| | _Heliopolis_ | | Heliopolis or On, in
| | | | Egypt.
| | | |
=AVIM= (R.V. |Joshua xviii. |_Not |-- |A town of Benjamin.
=AVVIM=) | 23; Deut. | identified_ | |
| ii. 23 | | |
| | | |
=AVITH= |Gen. xxxvi. |_Not |-- |A city of Hadad
| 35; 1 Chron. | identified_ | | Ben-Bedad, one of the
| i. 46 | | | Kings of Edom.
| | | |
=AZAL= (R.V. |Zech. xiv. 5 |_Not |-- |The limit to which the
=AZEL=) | | identified_ | | valley or ravine of
| | | | the Mount of Olives
| | | | shall reach.
| | | |
=AZEKAH= |Josh. x. 10, |_Tell |14 |Both Tell Zakarîya and
| 11; xv. 35; | Zakarîya_ | | Deir el ʾAshek have
| 1 Sam. xvii. | | | been proposed, the
| 1; 2 Chron. | | | former in the ‘Valley
| xi. 9; Neh. | | | of Elah,’ and the
| xi. 30; Jer. | | | latter in the ‘Valley
| xxxiv. 7 | | | of Sorek.’ (_Mem._
| | | | II. 420 and 441; Sh.
| | | | XVI.)--Conder.
| | | |
=AZEM=, or |Josh. xv. 29; |_Not |-- |In the south of Judah,
=EZEM= (R.V. | xix. 3; 1 | identified_ | | allotted to Simeon.
=EZEM=) | Chron. iv. 29| | |
| | | |
=AZMAVETH= |1 Chron. xii. |_Hizmeh_ |14 |The village Hizmeh,
| 3; Ezra ii. | | | 4 miles north-east
| 24; Neh. | | | of Jerusalem =
| xii. 29 | | | Beth-azmaveth. (_Mem._
| | | | III. 9; Sh. XVII.)
| | | |
=AZMON= |Num. xxxiv. |_Not |-- |Named as being between
| 4, 5; Josh. | identified_ | | Hazar-addar and the
| xv. 4 | | | River or Brook of
| | | | Egypt (Wâdy el Arîsh),
| | | | in the extreme south
| | | | of Judah; thought to
| | | | refer to the same
| | | | place as Heshmon. (?)
| | | |
=AZNOTH-TABOR= |Josh. xix. 34 |Summit (?) of | 6 |A place on the boundary
| | _Mount Tabor_| | of Naphtali. (Sh. VI.)
| | | |
=AZOTUS= |Judith ii. | |-- |Ashdod, which see.
| 28; 1 Macc. | | |
| iv. 15; v. | | |
| 68; x. 77, | | |
| 84; xi. 4; | | |
| xiv. 34; | | |
| xvi. 10 | | |
| | | |
=AZOTUS=, Mount |1 Macc. ix. 15|The hill |10 |The hill of ‘Bir ez
| | above _Bîr | | Zeit,’ 4 miles north
| | ez Zeit_ | | of Bethel.
| | | |
=AZZAH= (R.V. |Deut. ii. 23; |_Gaza_ |-- |Identical with Gaza,
=GAZA=) | 1 Kings iv. | | | which see. (In 1 Chr.
| 24; Jer. | | | vii. 28, the Revised
| xxv. 20 | | | Version reads Azzah,
| | | | in the margin Ayyah.)
| | | |
=BAAL= |1 Chron. iv. |Same as |-- |_See_ Baalath Beer.
| 33 | _Baalath | |
| | Beer_ | |
| | | |
=BAALAH= |Josh. xv. 9, |Same as |-- |Another name for
| 10; 2 Sam. | _Kirjath- | | Kirjath-jearim or
| vi. 2; 1 | jearim_ | | Kirjath-baal. (In
| Chron. xiii. | | | 2 Sam. vi. 2, the
| 6 | | | Revised Version reads
| | | | Baale Judah.)
| | | |
=BAALAH=, |Josh. xv. 29; |_Not |-- |A town in the south of
=BALAH= or | xix. 3; 1 | identified_ | | Judah. (_Mem._ III.
=BILHAH= | Chr. iv. 29 | | | 261; Sh. XX.)
| | | |
=BAALAH=, Mount |Josh. xv. 11 |_Not |-- |Named between ‘Ekron’
| | identified_ | | and ‘Jabneel.’
| | | | Probably one of the
| | | | tops on the ridge
| | | | running north of ‘el
| | | | Mughâr’ (Makkedah).
| | | |
=BAALATH= |Josh. xix. |_Belʾaîn_* |10 |Perhaps the village
| 44; 1 Kings | | | Belʾaîn, and identical
| ix. 18; 2 | | | with the town in Kings
| Chron. viii. | | | ix. 18, Ant. viii. 6,
| 6 | | | 1. (_Mem._ II. 296;
| | | | Sh. XIV.)--Conder.
| | | |
=BAALATH BEER= |Josh. xix. 8; |_Not |-- |In the south part of
| 1 Sam. xxx. | identified_ | | Judah. Also called
| 27 | | | Ramah or Ramath of the
| | | | South.
| | | |
=BAAL-GAD= |Josh. xi. |_Bâniâs_ (?) | 7 |‘In the valley of
| 17; xii. 7; | | | Lebanon, under Mount
| xiii. 5 | | | Hermon.’ (_Bâniâs_,
| | | | Schwarz & Robinson.)
| | | | (_Mem._ I. 109; Sh.
| | | | II.)
| | | |
=BAAL-HAMON= |Cant. viii. 11|_Not |-- |Perhaps Amana (Conder).
| | identified_ | | _See_ Balamo.
| | | |
=BAAL-HAZOR= |2 Sam. xiii. |_Tell ʾAsûr_ |10 |The present mountain,
| 23 | | | Tell ʾAsûr, near
| | | | Ephraim (Taiyibeh).
| | | | (_Mem._ II. 298; Sh.
| | | | XIV.)
| | | |
=BAAL-HERMON=, |Judg. iii. 3; |_Mount | 3 |Also called Mount
Mount | 1 Chron. v. | Hermon_; | | Hermon, Deut. iii.
| 23 | _Jebel esh | | 8; ‘Sirion,’ and
| | Sheikh_ | | ‘Shenir,’ Deut. iii.
| | | | 9; Mount Zion, Deut.
| | | | iv. 48. Now called
| | | | Jebel esh Sheikh.
| | | |
=BAAL-MEON= |Num. xxxii. |_Tell Mʾaîn_ |15 |_See_ Beth-baal-meon. A
| 38; 1 Chron. | | | town of Reuben.
| v. 8; Ezek. | | |
| xxv. 9 | | |
| | | |
=BAAL-PERAZIM= |2 Sam. v. 20; |_Not |-- |One of the scenes of
| 1 Chron. | identified_ | | David’s victories in
| xiv. 11 | | | the neighbourhood of
| | | | the Valley of Rephaim.
| | | |
=BAAL-SHALISHA= |2 Kings iv. 42|_Kefr |10 |Kh. Sirîsia is 14
| | Thilth_* (?) | | miles north-east of
| | | | Lydda. This place is
| | | | identified in the
| | | | Onomasticon with Baal
| | | | Shalisha. The village
| | | | Kh. Kefr. Thilth is
| | | | 4 miles further on.
| | | | (_Mem._ II. 299; Sh.
| | | | XIV.) _See_ Conder’s
| | | | _Bible Handbook_, p.
| | | | 404.
| | | |
=BAAL-TAMAR= |Judg. xx. 33 |_ʾAttâra_ (?) |14 |Jewish tradition
| | | | identifies the site
| | | | with the large ruin
| | | | ʾAttâra, near Gibeah
| | | | of Benjamin.
| | | |
=BAAL-ZEPHON= |Ex. xiv. 2, |_Not |-- |A place in Egypt near
| 9; Num. | identified_ | | which the Israelites
| xxxiii. 7 | | | crossed the Red Sea.
| | | |
=BABEL=, Tower |Gen. x. 10; |_Birs Nimrûd_ |-- |
of | xi. 4, 5, 9 | | |
| | | |
=BABYLON= |Very | |-- |On the Euphrates.
| frequently | | | Usually connected with
| mentioned | | | Birs Nimrûd.
| | | |
=BACA=, Valley |Ps. lxxxiv. 6 |_Not |-- |Signifying Valley of
of | | identified_ | | Weeping, or Balsam
| | | | trees. (R.V.)
| | | |
=BAHURIM= |2 Sam. iii. |_Kh. ʾAlmît_ |14 |The Targum of Jonathan
| 16; xvi. 5; | (??) | | reads Almon (ʾAlmît).
| xvii. 18; | | | Identical with Alemeth
| xix. 16; 1 | | | and Almon, which see.
| Kings ii. 8 | | |
| | | |
=BAJITH= (R.V. |Isaiah xv. 2 |_Not |-- |In Moab.
=BAYITH=) | | identified_ | |
| | | |
=BALAH= |Josh. xix. 3 | |-- |_See_ Baalah.
| | | |
=BALAMO= |Judith viii. 3|See |-- |Near Dothaim (?). A
| | _Baal-hamon_ | | corruption of Baal
| | and _Bileam_ | | Hamon or Bileam.
| | | |
=BAMOTH-BAAL= |Num. xxi. 19; |_el |15 |‘The high places
| xxii. 41; | Maslûbîyeh_ | | of Baal,’ between
| Josh. xiii. | (?)* | | Nebo and Beth
| 17 | | | Peor. (_Quarterly
| | | | Statement_, 1882, p.
| | | | 85; _Heth and Moab_,
| | | | pp. 144-147.)
| | | |
=BAMOTH=, in |Num. xxi. 20 |‘High places’ |15 |This would perhaps
the Valley | | or ‘altars’ | | refer to the dolmens
(R.V. to the | | | | in Wâdy Jedeid,
Valley) | | | | immediately north of
| | | | ‘el Maslûbîyeh.’ (See
| | | | _Heth and Moab_, p.
| | | | 144.)
| | | |
=BASCAMA= |1 Macc. xiii. |_Not |-- |A place in Gilead. The
| 23 | identified_ | | scene of Jonathan the
| | | | Hasmonean’s death.
| | | |
=BASHAN= |Num. xxi. | | 6,|A district on the east
| 33; xxxii. | | 7,| of Galilee, extending
| 33; Deut. | |11,| from the borders of
| i. 4; iii. | |12 | Gilead on the south
| 1, 14; iv. | | | to Mount Hermon on
| 43; xxix. | | | the north, and from
| 7; xxxii. | | | the Jordan Valley on
| 14; xxxiii. | | | the west, to Bozrah
| 22; Josh. | | | on the east. The
| ix. 10; xii. | | | later Aramaic name,
| 4; xiii. | | | Batanea, applied to
| 11, 12, 30; | | | the south part of the
| xvii. 1, 5; | | | district. It perhaps
| xx. 8; xxi. | | | survives in the modern
| 6, 27; xxii. | | | district name, _el
| 7; 1 Kings | | | Butein_, south-east of
| iv. 13-19; 2 | | | Galilee and in _Ard
| Kings x. 33; | | | el Bathania_, further
| 1 Chron. v. | | | east. (_See_ Conder’s
| 11, 16, 23; | | | _Handbook to the
| vi. 62; Neh. | | | Bible_, p. 315.)
| ix. 22; Ps. | | |
| xxii. 12; | | |
| lxviii. 15, | | |
| 22; cxxxv. | | |
| 11; cxxxvi. | | |
| 20; Isa. ii. | | |
| 13; xxxiii. | | |
| 9; Jer. | | |
| xxii. 20; l. | | |
| 19; Ezek. | | |
| xxvii. 6; | | |
| xxxix. 18; | | |
| Am. iv. 1; | | |
| Micah vii. | | |
| 14; Nah. i. | | |
| 4; Zech. xi. | | |
| 2 | | |
| | | |
=BASHAN-HAVOTH- |Deut. iii. 14 |Same as |-- |
JAIR= (R.V.) | | _Argob_ | |
=HAVVOTH-JAIR=)| | | |
| | | |
=BATH-RABBIM= |Cant. vii. 4 |_Not |-- |One of the gates of
| | identified_ | | Heshbon. See _Heth and
| | | | Moab_, p. 125.
| | | |
=BATH ZACHARIAS=|1 Macc. vi. |_Kh. Beit |14 |The present ruined
| 32, 33; xii. | Skâria_ | | village of Beit
| Ant. 9, 4; 1 | | | Skâria, south-west of
| Wars i. 5 | | | Bethlehem. (_Mem._
| | | | III. 35; Sh. XVII.)
| | | |
=BEALOTH= |Josh. xv. 24 |_Not |-- |Somewhere in the
| | identified_ | | extreme south of Judah.
| | | |
=BEBAI= |Judith xv. 4 |_Not |-- |A place only mentioned
| | identified_ | | in Judith.
| | | |
=BECTILETH=, |Judith ii. 21 |_Not |-- |Mentioned as lying
The Plain of | | identified_ | | between Nineveh and
| | | | Cilicia.
| | | |
=BEER= (1) |Num. xxi. 16, |_Not |-- |One of the stations
| 18 | identified_ | | of the Israelites,
| | | | between ‘Ar’ and
| | | | ‘Mattaneh.’
| | | |
=BEER= (2) |Judg. ix. 21 |_Not |-- |Perhaps Beeroth of
| | identified_ | | Benjamin.--Conder.
| | | |
=BEER-ELIM= |Isa. xv. 8 |_Not |-- |On the border of Moab.
| | identified_ | |
| | | |
=BEER-LAHAI-ROI=|Gen. xvi. 14; |_ʾAin |20 |Between ‘Kedesh’ and
| xxiv. 62; | Muweileh_ (?)| | Bered, in the south of
| xxv. 11 | | | Judah. The well ‘ʾAin
| | | | Muweileh,’ 12 miles
| | | | to the west of ‘ʾAin
| | | | Kadîs,’ is supposed
| | | | by Rowlands to be the
| | | | ancient one.
| | | |
=BEEROTH= |Deut. x. 6 |_Not |-- |One of the
| | identified_ | | camping-stations
| | | | of the Israelites.
| | | | ‘Beerothe Bene-Jaakan’
| | | | = the wells of the
| | | | children of Jaakan.
| | | |
=BEEROTH= |Josh. ix. 17; |_Bîreh_ |14 |‘A city of Benjamin.’
| xviii. 25; | | | The present village
| 2 Sam. iv. | | | ‘Bîreh,’ a day’s
| 2, 3, 5, 9; | | | journey from
| xxiii. 37; | | | Jerusalem, on the main
| Ezra ii. 25; | | | road to Shechem and
| Neh. vii. | | | the north. (_Mem._
| 29; 1 Chron. | | | III. 88; Sh. XVII.)
| xi. 39 | | |
| | | |
=BEER-SHEBA= |Gen. xxi. |_Bîr es Sebʾa_|13 |The present ruin ‘Bîr
| 14-31; 33; | | | es Sebʾa,’ with three
| xxii. 19; | | | wells. (_Mem._ III.
| xxvi. 23, | | | 394; Sh. XXIV.)
| 33; xxviii. | | |
| 10; xlvi. 1, | | |
| 5; Josh. xv. | | |
| 28; xix. 2; | | |
| Jud. xx. 1; | | |
| 1 Sam. iii. | | |
| 20; viii. 2; | | |
| 2 Sam. iii. | | |
| 10; xvii. | | |
| 11; xxiv. | | |
| 2, 7, 15; 1 | | |
| Kings iv. | | |
| 25; xix. 3; | | |
| 2 Kings xii. | | |
| 1; xxiii. | | |
| 8; 1 Chron. | | |
| iv. 28; | | |
| xxi. 2; 2 | | |
| Chron. xix. | | |
| 4; xxiv. 1; | | |
| xxx. 5; Neh. | | |
| xi. 27, 30; | | |
| Am. v. 5; | | |
| viii. 14 | | |
| | | |
=BEESH-TERAH= |Josh. xxi. 27 |Same as |-- |In the Hauran, another
| | _Ashtaroth_ | | name for Ashtaroth,
| | | | which see. Considered
| | | | by Gesenius as a
| | | | contracted form of
| | | | Beth-Ashtaroth.
| | | |
=BELA= |Gen. xiv. 2, 8|Same as _Zoar_|-- |The original name for
| | | | Zoar, which see.
| | | |
=BELMAIM= or |Judith iv. 4; |_ʾAin | 6 |_See_ Bileam. (Conder’s
=BELMEN= | vii. 3 | Belâmeh_ (?)*| | _Handbook to the
| | | | Bible_, p. 289.)
| | | | Proposed by C. F. T.
| | | | Drake.
| | | |
=BENEBERAK= |Josh. xix. 45 |_Ibn Ibrâk_ | 9 |The present village
| | | | _Ibn Ibrâk_. (_Mem._
| | | | II. 251; Sh. XIII.)
| | | |
=BENJAMIN= High |Jer. xx. 2; | |-- |Somewhere in the north
Gate, or Gate | xxxvii. 13; | | | wall of Jerusalem.
of | xxxviii. 7; | | |
| Zech. xiv. 10| | |
| | | |
=BENJAMIN=, |Josh. xviii., | |-- |
Tribe of | and Josephus | | |
| v. Ant. i. 22| | |
| | | |
=BEON= or |Num. xxxii. | |-- |_See_ Beth Baal-meon.
=BAAL-MEON= | 3, 38 | | |
| | | |
=BERACHAH=, |2 Chron. xx. |_Wâdy |14 |‘The valley called Wâdy
Valley | 26 | ʾArrûb_, | | ʾArrûb, above which
of (R.V. | | (_Breikût_) | | is the ruin Breikût,
=BERACAH=) | | | | a relic of the name.’
| | | | (_Mem._ III. 311; Sh.
| | | | XXI.)
| | | |
=BEREA= (1) |2 Macc. xiii. |_Aleppo_ |-- |The modern Aleppo.
| 4 | | |
| | | |
=BEREA= (2) |1 Macc. ix. |_Bîreh_ |14 |= Beeroth, which see.
| 4; xii. Ant. | | | (Beroth, 1 Esdr. v.
| 11, 1 | | | 19.) (_Mem._ III. 88;
| | | | Sh. XVII.)
| | | |
=BERED= |Gen. xvi. 14 |_Khalasah_ (?)|20 |Between ‘Kadesh’
| | | | and ‘Bered’ lay
| | | | the well ‘Lahai
| | | | Roi.’ The Targum of
| | | | pseudo-Jonathan reads
| | | | ‘Khalutza’ = Khalasah,
| | | | a heap of ruins,
| | | | 13 miles south of
| | | | Beersheba.
| | | |
=BEROTH= |1 Esdr. v. 19 |_Bîreh_ |-- |Probably the same as
| | | | Berea = Beeroth, which
| | | | see.
| | | |
=BEROTHAH= |Ezek. xlvii. |_Not |-- |The Rev. G. H. Tomkins,
| 16 | identified_ | | in _Quarterly
| | | | Statement_ for April,
| | | | 1885, p. 108, suggests
| | | | the vicinity of the
| | | | rock-hewn inscriptions
| | | | of Nebuchadnezzar
| | | | in ‘Wâdy Brissa,’
| | | | north-west of Baalbek,
| | | | and between Damascus
| | | | and Hamath, as the
| | | | site of the ancient
| | | | Berothah. Others
| | | | suggest Beirût.
| | | |
=BEROTHAI= |2 Sam. viii. 8|_Not |-- |Perhaps the same as
| | identified_ | | Berothah.
| | | |
=BESOR=, The |1 Sam. xxx. |_Not |-- |Somewhere in the south
Brook | 9, 10, 21 | identified_ | | of Judah.
| | | |
=BETAH= |2 Sam. viii. 8|_Not |-- |Same as Tibhath, which
| | identified_ | | see.
| | | |
=BETANE= |Judith i. 9 |_Not |-- |Possibly Kh. Beit
| | identified_ | | ʾAinûn. (Sh. XXI.)
| | | | (_See_ ‘Beth-anoth.’)
| | | |
=BETEN= |Josh. xix. 25 |_el Bʾaneh_ | 6 |‘One of the cities
| | | | on the border
| | | | of the tribe of
| | | | Asher.’ Eusebius
| | | | places ‘Bebeten’ 8
| | | | Roman miles east
| | | | of Ptolemais. This
| | | | indicates the village
| | | | ‘el Bʾaneh,’ which is
| | | | 12 miles east. (_Mem._
| | | | I. 153; Sh. III.)
| | | |
=BETH-ACHATH= |2 Kings x. 12 |_Beit Kâd_* |10 |‘The Shearing House’ or
or =EKED= | | | | ‘House of Gathering,’
| | | | (R.V.) The small
| | | | village, ‘Beit Kâd,’ 3
| | | | miles east of Jenîn.
| | | | (_Mem._ II. 83; Sh.
| | | | IX.)
| | | |
=BETH-ANATH= |Josh. xix. |_ʾAinîtha_ | 6 |‘One of the fenced
| 38; Judg. i. | | | cities of Naphtali.’
| 33 | | | The village,
| | | | ‘ʾAinîtha,’ 6 miles
| | | | west of ‘Kedesh.’
| | | | (_Mem._ I. 200; Sh.
| | | | IV.)
| | | |
=BETH-ANOTH= |Josh. xv. 59 |_Kh. Beit |14 |‘One of the cities
| | ʾAinûn_ | | in the mountains of
| | | | Judah.’ The ruin,
| | | | ‘Beit ʾAinûn,’ 1½
| | | | miles south-east of
| | | | Halhul. (_Mem._ III.
| | | | 351; Sh. XXI.)
| | | |
=BETH-ARABAH= |Josh. xv. 6, |_Not |-- |One of the six cities
| 61; xviii. 22| identified_ | | of Judah in the
| | | | Arabah; but in chap.
| | | | xviii. 21, allotted to
| | | | Benjamin.
| | | |
=BETH-ARAM= |Josh. xiii. 27|_Tell Râmeh_ |14 |One of the towns of
(R.V. | | | | Gad, on the east
=BETH-HARAM=) | | | | of Jordan. _See_
| | | | Beth-haran.
| | | |
=BETH-ARBEL= |Hosea x. 14 |_Not |-- |Probably Irbid in the
| | identified_ | | Ajlûn, east of Jordan.
| | | |
=BETH-AVEN= |Josh. vii. 2; |_Not |-- |A place east of Bethel,
| 1 Sam. xiii. | identified_ | | belonging to Benjamin.
| 5; xiv. 23; | | |
| Hos. iv. 15; | | |
| v. 8; x. 5 | | |
| | | |
=BETH-AVEN=, |Josh. xviii. |The |10 |To the east of Bethel
Wilderness of | 12 | wilderness |and| and Ai, in Benjamin.
| | to the east |14 |
| | of _Bethel_ | |
| | | |
=BETH-AZMAVETH= |Neh. vii. 28 |_Hizmeh_ |14 |The village Hizmeh,
| | | | 4 miles north of
| | | | Jerusalem. Also
| | | | called ‘Azmaveth’ and
| | | | Bethsamos, which see.
| | | | (_Mem._ III. 9; Sh.
| | | | XVII.)
| | | |
=BETH-BAAL-MEON=|Josh. xiii. 17|_Tell Mʾaîn_ |15 |Also called Baal-meon,
| | | | Beth-meon, and Beon,
| | | | belonging to Reuben.
| | | | Now Tell Mʾaîn and
| | | | ruins.
| | | |
=BETH-BARAH= |Judg. vii. 24 |_Not |-- |Perhaps near the ford
| | identified_ | | in the Jordan, called
| | | | ‘Mkt Abarah,’ north of
| | | | Beth-shean. (_Mem._
| | | | II.; Sh. IX.)
| | | |
=BETH-BASI= |1 Macc. ix. |_Not |-- |In the wilderness,
| 62, 64 | identified_ | | east of Jerusalem.
| | | | Identified by Josephus
| | | | (xiii. Ant. i. 5)
| | | | with Beth Aglah (Beth
| | | | Hoglah).
| | | |
=BETH-BIREI= |1 Chron. iv. |_Not |-- |A town of Simeon, in
(R.V. | 31 | identified_ | | the extreme south.
=BETH-BIRI=) | | | | (_Mem._ III. 261.)
| | | |
=BETH-CAR= |1 Sam. vii. |_Not |-- |Possibly ‘ʾAin Kârim,’
| 11; vi. Ant. | identified_ | | west of Mizpeh, the
| 2, 2 | | | site of the stone
| | | | ‘Eben-ezer,’ between
| | | | ‘Mizpeh’ and ‘Shen.’
| | | |
=BETH-DAGON= (1)|Josh. xv. 41 |_Dajûn_ (?) | 9 |Dajûn, between Lydda
| | | | and Yebnah. Originally
| | | | apportioned to Judah,
| | | | afterwards in Dan.
| | | | Suggested by M.
| | | | Clermont-Ganneau. This
| | | | ruin is south of the
| | | | village Beit Dejan,
| | | | which preserves the
| | | | name. (_Mem._ II. 251;
| | | | Sh. XIII.)
| | | |
=BETH-DAGON= (2)|Josh. xix. 27 |_Tell Dʾaûk_ | 6 |Probably Tell or
| | (?) | | Kh. Dʾaûk near the
| | | | boundary of Asher,
| | | | south of Acre.
| | | | (Conder’s _Handbook to
| | | | the Bible_, p. 268;
| | | | _Mem._ I. 309; Sh. V.)
| | | |
=BETH-DAGON= (3)|1 Macc. x. 83 |Temple of |-- |
| | _Dagon_ in | |
| | _Azotus_ | |
| | | |
=BETH- |Jer. xlviii. |See _Almon |-- |A town of Moab. _See_
DIBLATHAIM= | 22 | Diblathaim_ | | Almon Diblathaim.
| | | | Signifying house
| | | | of the two discs.
| | | | ‘Possibly the name
| | | | Deleiyât may be a
| | | | corruption of Diblah,
| | | | as the situation seems
| | | | appropriate, south of
| | | | Tell Mʾaîn.’ (_Heth
| | | | and Moab_.)
| | | |
=BETHEL= |Gen. xii. 8; |_Beitin_ |10 |The present village
| xiii. 3; | | | Beitin, 9½ miles north
| xxviii. 19; | | | of Jerusalem. (_Mem._
| xxxi. 13; | | | II. 305; Sh. XIV.)
| xxxv. 1-16; | | |
| Josh. vii. | | |
| 2; viii. | | |
| 9, 12, 17; | | |
| xii. 9, 16; | | |
| xvi. 2; | | |
| xviii. 13, | | |
| 22; Judg. i. | | |
| 22; iv. 5; | | |
| xxi. 2, 19; | | |
| 1 Sam. vii. | | |
| 16; x. 3; | | |
| xxx. 27; 1 | | |
| Kings xii. | | |
| 29, 32, 33; | | |
| xiii. 1, 4, | | |
| 10, 11, 32; | | |
| 2 Kings ii. | | |
| 2, 23; x. | | |
| 29; xvii. | | |
| 28; xxiii. | | |
| 4, 15, 17, | | |
| 19; 1 Chron. | | |
| vii. 28; 2 | | |
| Chron. xiii. | | |
| 19; Ezra ii. | | |
| 28; Neh. | | |
| vii. 32; xi. | | |
| 31; Jer. | | |
| xlviii. 13; | | |
| Hos. x. 15; | | |
| xii. 4; Am. | | |
| iii. 14; iv. | | |
| 4; v. 5, 6; | | |
| vii. 10, 13; | | |
| 1 Macc. ix. | | |
| 50 | | |
| | | |
=BETHEL=, Mount |Josh. xvi. 1; |The hill |10 |The hill country around
| 1 Sam. xiii. | country | | Bethel (R.V.).
| 2 | around Bethel| |
| | | |
=BETH-EMEK= |Josh. xix. 27 |_ʾAmka_ (?) | 6 |Possibly the present
| | | | village ‘Amka,’ 7
| | | | miles north-east of
| | | | Accho, on or near
| | | | the border of Asher.
| | | | (_Mem._ I. 145; Sh.
| | | | III.)
| | | |
=BETHER=, |Cant. ii. 17 |_Not |14 |Possibly Bethel.
Mountains of | | identified_ | | Possibly Bittîr,
| | | | south-west of
| | | | Jerusalem.
| | | |
=BETH-EZEL= |Mich. i. 11 |_Not |-- |Probably in the plain
| | identified_ | | of Philistia. ? Azal,
| | | | in Zech. xiv. 5.
| | | |
=BETH-GADER= |1 Chron. ii. |See _Geder_ |-- |
| 51 | | |
| | | |
=BETH-GAMUL= |Jer. xlviii. |_Kh. Jemail_ |15 |In Moab. Perhaps
| 23 | (?)* | | _Jemail_, east of
| | | | Dibon. (Conder. See
| | | | _Heth and Moab_ list.)
| | | |
=BETH-HACCEREM= |Neh. iii. 14; |_Not |-- |Possibly the Frank
(R.V. =BETH- | Jer. vi. 1 | identified_ | | mountain; but the
HACCHEREM=) | | | | name, ‘Beth Haccerem,’
| | | | ‘House of the
| | | | Vineyards,’ has not
| | | | been recovered. A more
| | | | recent suggestion
| | | | would place the house
| | | | of vineyards at ‘ʾAin
| | | | Karîm,’ the ‘spring of
| | | | vineyards.’ (Conder,
| | | | _Quarterly Statement_,
| | | | p. 271, 1881).
| | | |
=BETH-HARAN= |Num. xxxii. 36|_Tell Râmeh_ |14 |One of the fortified
| | | | towns of Gad. The
| | | | ruins, or Tell, called
| | | | Rameh, near Kefrein,
| | | | east of Jericho,
| | | | identical with
| | | | Beth-aram, which see.
| | | |
=BETH-HOGLAH= |Josh. xv. 6; |_ʾAin Hajlah_ |14 |A town of Benjamin. The
| xviii. 19, 21| | | ruin of ‘ʾAin Hajlah,’
| | | | south-east of Jericho.
| | | | Beth-basi of Macc. ix.
| | | | 62. (_Mem._ III. 173;
| | | | Sh. XVIII.)
| | | |
=BETH-HORON=, |Josh. x. 10, |_Beit ʾUr el |14 |On the tribal boundary
The Upper | 11; xvi. 5; | Foka_ | | between Ephraim and
| xxi. 22; 1 | | | Benjamin. The present
| Sam. xiii. | | | village, ‘Beit Ur el
| 18; 1 Chron. | | | Foka.’ (_Mem._ III.
| vii. 68; 2 | | | 86; Sh. XVII.)
| Chron. viii. | | |
| 5; xxv. 13; | | |
| 1 Macc. iii. | | |
| 24 | | |
| | | |
=BETH-HORON=, |Josh. xvi. |_Beit ʾUr el_ |14 |On the tribal boundary
The Nether | 3; xviii. | _Tahta_ | | between Ephraim and
| 13, 14; 1 | | | Benjamin. The present
| Kings ix. | | | village ‘Beit Ur el
| 17; 1 Chron. | | | Tahta.’
| vi. 24; 2 | | |
| Chron. viii. | | |
| 5; Macc. | | |
| iii. 16; | | |
| vii. 39; ix. | | |
| 50; Ecclus. | | |
| xlvi. 6 | | |
| | | |
=BETHORON= |Judith iv. 4 | | |Beth-horon.
| | | |
=BETH-JESIMOTH=,|Num. xxxiii. |_ʾAin |14 |A small mound with
or =JESHIMOTH= | 49; Josh. | Suweimeh_ | | ruins and spring near
| xii. 3; | | | the north-east corner
| xiii. 20; | | | of the Dead Sea.
| Ezek. xxv. 9 | | |
| | | |
=BETH-LEBAOTH= |Josh. xix. 6 |_Not |-- |A town in the lot of
| | identified_ | | Simeon, somewhere in
| | | | the south of Judah.
| | | |
=BETHLEHEM= of |Gen. xxxv. |_Beit Lahm_ |14 |The present town
Judah | 19; xlviii. | | | Beit Lahm, 5 miles
| 7; Judg. | | | south of Jerusalem.
| xii. 8-10; | | | One of the fenced
| xvii. 7, 9; | | | cities of Rehoboam,
| xix. 12, | | | and originally
| 18; Ruth i. | | | called ‘Ephrath’ or
| 1, 2, 19, | | | ‘Ephratah.’ (_Mem._
| 22; ii. 4; | | | III. 28, 83; Sh. XVII.)
| iv. 11; 1 | | |
| Sam. xvi. 4; | | |
| xvii. 12, | | |
| 15; xx. 6, | | |
| 28; 2 Sam. | | |
| ii. 32; | | |
| xxiii. 14, | | |
| 15, 16, 24; | | |
| 1 Chron. ii. | | |
| 51, 54; iv. | | |
| 4; xi. 16, | | |
| 26; 2 Chron. | | |
| xi. 6; Ezra | | |
| ii. 21; Neh. | | |
| vii. 26; | | |
| Jer. xli. | | |
| 17; Micah v. | | |
| 2 | | |
| | | |
=BETHLEHEM= of |Josh. xix. |_Beit Lahm_ | 6 |The small village
Zebulon | 15; Judg. | | | Beit Lahm, 7 miles
| xii. 8, 10 | | | north-west of
| | | | Nazareth. (_Mem._ I.
| | | | 301; Sh. V.)
| | | |
=BETHLOMON= |1 Esd. v. 17 |_Beit Lahm_ | |Bethlehem of Judah.
| | | |
=BETH-MAACAH= |2 Sam. xx. |_See |-- |
| 14, 15 | Aram-maachah_| |
| | | |
=BETH-MARCABOTH=|Josh. xix. 5; |_Not |-- |A town of Simeon,
| 1 Chron. iv. | identified_ | | somewhere in the south
| 31 | | | of Judah.
| | | |
=BETH-MEON= |Jer. xlviii. |_Tell Mʾaîn_ |-- |Same as Beth-baal-meon,
| 23 | | | which see.
| | | |
=BETH-MERHAK= |2 Sam. xv. 17 |_Not |-- |‘The Far House.’ A
| (R.V.) | identified_ | | place near Jerusalem.
| | | |
=BETH-NIMRAH= |Num. xxxii. |_Tell Nimrîn_ |14 |The ruins of Tell
| 36; Josh. | | | Nimrîn, on the edge of
| xiii. 27 | | | the plain of Shittim,
| | | | 10 miles to the north
| | | | of the Salt Sea. ‘A
| | | | fenced city of Gad.’
| | | |
=BETH-PALET= or |Josh. xv. 27; |_Not |-- |In the south of Judah.
=PHALET= (R.V. | Neh. xi. 26 | identified_ | |
=BETH-PELET=) | | | |
| | | |
=BETH-PAZZEZ= |Josh. xix. 21 |_Not |-- |Mentioned with
| | identified_ | | En-gannim and
| | | | En-haddah of Issachar.
| | | |
=BETH-PEOR= |Deut. iii. |_Mareighât_ |14 |(Conder’s _Heth and
| 29; iv. 46; | (?)* | | Moab_, p. 14, and
| xxxiv. 6; | | | _Quarterly Statement_,
| Josh. xiii. | | | 1882, p. 88.) _See_
| 20 | | | Peor (Num. xxii. 28),
| | | | which is perhaps
| | | | _Minyeh_, at west end
| | | | of same ridge.
| | | |
=BETH-REHOB= (1)|Judg. xviii. |_Hunîn_ (?) |-- |Somewhere near the
| 28 | | | town of Laish or Dan.
| | | | Possibly Hunîn, a
| | | | fortress commanding
| | | | the plain of Hûleh, in
| | | | which the city of Dan
| | | | (Tell el Kâdy) lay.
| | | | (Robinson.)
| | | |
=BETH-REHOB= (2)|2 Sam. x. 6 |_Not |-- |An Aramean state south
| | identified_ | | of Zobah and near the
| | | | Euphrates.
| | | |
=BETHSAMOS= |1 Esdr. v. 18 |_Hizmeh_ |-- |Same as Beth Azmaveth
| | | | and Azmaveth, which
| | | | see.
| | | |
=BETH-SAN= |1 Macc. v. | |-- |_See_ Beth-shean.
| 52; xii. 40, | | |
| 41 | | |
| | | |
=BETH-SHEAN= or |Josh. xvii. |_Beisân_ |10 |Represented by the
=BETH-SHAN= | 11, 16; | | | modern town ‘Beisân’
| Judg. i. 27; | | | and the extensive
| 1 Sam. xxxi. | | | ruins surrounding it.
| 10, 12; 2 | | | (_Mem._ I. 101-107;
| Sam. xxi. | | | Sh. IX.)
| 12; 1 Kings | | |
| iv. 12; 1 | | |
| Chron. vii. | | |
| 29 | | |
| | | |
=BETH-SHEMESH= |Josh. xv. 10; |_ʾAin Shems_ |14 |On the boundary of
(1) | xxi. 16; 1 | | | Judah; now the ruins
| Sam. vi. 9, | | | called ‘ʾAin Shems’ in
| 20; 1 Kings | | | the valley of Sorek.
| iv. 9; 2 | | | (_Mem._ III. 35, 60;
| Kings xiv. | | | Sh. XVII.)
| 11; 1 Chron. | | |
| vi. 59; 2 | | |
| Chron. xxv. | | |
| 21; xxviii. | | |
| 18 | | |
| | | |
=BETH-SHEMESH= |Josh. xix. 22 |_ʾAin es |10 |A city of Issachar.
(2) | | Shemsîyeh_ | | Possibly ʾAin esh
| | (??)* | | Shemsîyeh, in the
| | | | Jordan Valley, south
| | | | of Beisân. (_Mem._ II.
| | | | 231; Sh. XII.)--Conder.
| | | |
=BETH-SHEMESH= |Jer. xliii. 13|_Heliopolis_ |-- |In the Middle Ages
(3) | | | | Heliopolis was called
| | | | Ain Shems, by the
| | | | Arabs. A ruin 10 miles
| | | | north-east of Cairo.
| | | | (Robinson, i. 25.)
| | | |
=BETH-SHEMESH= |Josh. xix. |_Kh. Shemsîn_ | 6 |Thought by some to be
(4) | 38; Judg. i. | (?)* _Kh. | | Kh. Shemʾa, 3 miles
| 33 | Shemʾa_ (??) | | west of Safed. One of
| | | | the ‘fenced cities’ of
| | | | Naphtali. (_Mem._ I.
| | | | 246; Sh. IV.) Possibly
| | | | _Kh. Shemsîn_, east of
| | | | Mount Tabor.--Conder,
| | | | Sh. VI.
| | | |
=BETH-SHITTAH= |Judg. vii. 22 |_Shutta_ (?) |10 |Was in or near Jordan
| | | | Valley. The name
| | | | exists at Shutta
| | | | (Sheet IX.), where
| | | | Robinson places this
| | | | site.
| | | |
=BETHSURA= |1 Macc. iv. |_Beit Sûr_ |-- |The Beth-zur of Joshua
| 29, 61; vi. | | | xv. 58, etc.
| 7, 26, 31, | | |
| 49, 50; ix. | | |
| 52; x. 14; | | |
| xi. 65; xiv. | | |
| 7, 33; 2 | | |
| Macc. xi. 5; | | |
| xiii. 19, 22 | | |
| | | |
=BETH-TAPPUAH= |Josh. xv. 53 |_Tŭffûh_ |14 |Now represented by the
| | | | modern village Tŭffûh,
| | | | west of Hebron.
| | | | (_Mem._ III. 310, 379;
| | | | Sh. XXI.)
| | | |
=BETHUL= or |Josh. xix. 4; |_Not |14 |Possibly the small
=BETHUEL= | 1 Chron. iv. | identified_ | | village ‘Beit Aûla,’
| 30 | | | 5 miles west of
| | | | Hûlhûl. Mentioned
| | | | with ‘Eltolad’
| | | | and ‘Hormah,’ and
| | | | belonging to Simeon.
| | | | (_Mem._ III. 302; Sh.
| | | | XXI.)
| | | |
=BETHULIA= |Judith iv. |_Melithia_ |10 |The village Methilieh,
| 6; vi. 10, | (?)* | | 5 miles south of
| 11, 14; vii. | | | Jenin. (_Mem._ II.
| 1-20; viii. | | | 156; Sh. XI.)--Conder.
| 3, 11; x. 6; | | |
| xi. 9; xii. | | |In the Middle Ages
| 7; xiii. 10; | | | the name of Bethulia
| xv. 3, 6; | | | was given to the
| xvi. 21, 23 | | | ‘Frank mountain’
| | | | south of Jerusalem
| | | | (Rob., i. 479),
| | | | later to ‘Safed,’ in
| | | | Upper Galilee (Rob.,
| | | | ii. 425). ‘Sanur,’
| | | | immediately south of
| | | | Methilieh, has been
| | | | proposed; but the
| | | | site of Methilieh
| | | | appears to meet all
| | | | the requirements.
| | | | (Conder’s _Handbook to
| | | | the Bible_, p. 289.)
| | | |
=BETH-ZACHARIAS=| |See _Bath |-- |
| | Zacharias_ | |
| | | |
=BETH-ZUR= |Josh. xv. 58; |_Beit Sûr_ |14 |Between Hŭlhûl and
| 1 Chron. ii. | | | Gedor in the mountains
| 45; 2 Chron. | | | of Judah. The present
| xi. 7; Neh. | | | ruined town, Beit
| iii. 16 | | | Sûr, 4 miles north of
| | | | Hebron. (_Mem._ III.
| | | | 311; Sh. XXI.)
| | | |
=BETOLIUS= |1 Esdr. v. 21 |_Bethel_ |-- |= Bethel.
| | | |
=BETOMESTHAM= |Judith iv. 6; |_Kh. |10 |A town ‘over against
| xv. 4 | Massîn_(??)* | | Esdraelon, facing the
| | | | plain that is near
| | | | Dothaim.’ Possibly
| | | | Kh. Massîn, 8 miles
| | | | south-west of Tell
| | | | Dothan.
| | | |
=BETONIM= |Josh. xiii. 26|_Not |-- |‘A town in Gad.’ The
| | identified_ | | name ‘Bataneh’ applies
| | | | to a heap of ruins, 3½
| | | | miles to south-west of
| | | | es Salt.
| | | |
=BEZEK= (1) |Judg. i. 4, 5 |_Bezkah_ (??)*|14 |In Judah. Perhaps the
| | | | present ruin, Bezkah,
| | | | 6 miles south-east of
| | | | Lydda. (_Mem._ III.
| | | | 36; Sh. XVII.)--Conder.
| | | |
=BEZEK= (2) |1 Sam. xi. 8 |_Kh. Ibzîk_* |10 |Now Kh. Ibzîk, 13 miles
| | | | north-east of Shechem.
| | | | (_Mem._ II. 231, 237;
| | | | Sh. XII.)--Conder.
| | | |
=BEZER=, in the |Deut. iv. 43; |_Kŭsr el |14 |A town of Reuben ‘in
Wilderness | Josh. xx. 8; | Besheir_ (?) | | the wilderness’
| xxi. 36; 1 | | | upon ‘the plain’ or
| Chr. vi. 78 | | | table-land. One of
| | | | the six cities of
| | | | refuge. The name ‘Kŭsr
| | | | el Besheir’ occurs
| | | | near Dibon, and was
| | | | proposed by the late
| | | | Professor Palmer.
| | | |
=BEZETH= |1 Macc. vii. |_Mt. of |-- |Possibly Bezetha, at
| 19 | Olives_ (?), | | Jerusalem. (_Mem._
| | or _Bezetha_ | | III. 312; Sh. XXI.)
| | (?) | |
| | | |
=BILEAM= |1 Chron. vi. |In the _Wâdy |10 |A town in western
| 70 | Belʾameh.* | | Manasseh. In Joshua
| | Not | | xvii. 11, Ibleam.
| | identified_ | | In Joshua xxi. 25,
| | | | Gath-rimmon. The name
| | | | is still recognisable
| | | | in Wâdy Belʾameh, near
| | | | Jenîn. (_Mem._ II.
| | | | 47-48; Sh. VIII.)
| | | |
=BILHAH= |1 Chron. iv. |_Not |-- |A town of Simeon; also
| 29 | identified_ | | called Baalah and
| | | | Balah.
| | | |
=BITHRON= |2 Sam. ii. 29 |_Not |-- |A district on the
| | identified_ | | east side of the
| | | | Jordan Valley, and
| | | | between the Jordan and
| | | | Mahanaim.
| | | |
=BIZJOTHJAH= |Josh. xv. 28 |_Not |-- |A town in the south of
(R.V. | | identified_ | | Judah, named next to
=BIZIOTHIAH=) | | | | Beer-sheba.
| | | |
=BOCHIM= |Judg. ii. 1, 5|_Not |-- |A place on the west of
| | identified_ | | Jordan above Gilgal,
| | | | so called because the
| | | | people ‘wept’ there.
| | | |
=BOHAN=, Stone |Josh. xv. 6; |_Not |14 |A landmark on the
of | xviii. 17 | identified_ | | boundary between
| | | | Benjamin and Judah.
| | | | Placed at ‘Hajr
| | | | el Asbâh,’ on the
| | | | cliff to the west
| | | | of the north end
| | | | of the Dead Sea
| | | | (Ganneau)--uncertain.
| | | | (_Mem._ III. 199; Sh.
| | | | XVIII.)
| | | |
=BOSOR= |1 Macc. v. 26 |_Busr el | 7 |A fortified city on the
| | Hariri_ (?) | | east of Jordan. Named
| | | | with the cities of
| | | | Bosora, Alemais, etc.,
| | | | etc. Probably Busr
| | | | el Hariri, 5 miles
| | | | south-east of Edrei.
| | | |
=BOSORA= |1 Macc. v. |_Busrah_ |12 |A fortified city on
| 26, 28 | | | the east of Jordan,
| | | | mentioned with
| | | | ‘Bosor,’ etc. Probably
| | | | ‘Bozrah,’ east of
| | | | Bashan.
| | | |
=BOZEZ= |1 Sam. xiv. |_The north |14 |The north cliff of the
| 4, 5 | cliff | | valley of ‘Michmash,’
| | of Wâdy | | and nearly opposite is
| | Suweinît_ | | the rugged precipice
| | | | of ‘Seneh.’ (_See_
| | | | Conder’s _Tent Work in
| | | | Palestine_.)
| | | |
=BOZKATH= or |Josh. xv. 39; |_Not |-- |A city of Judah,
=BOSCATH= | 2 Kings | identified_ | | mentioned between
| xxii. 1 | | | ‘Lachish’ and ‘Eglon.’
| | | |
=BOZRAH= of |Gen. xxxvi. |_el Buseirah_ |21 |Now the ruins called
=EDOM= (1) | 33; 1 Chron. | | | ‘el Buseirah,’ in
| i. 44; Isa. | | | Edom, south-east
| xxxiv. 6; | | | of the Dead Sea.
| lxiii. 1; | | | (Burckhardt, 407;
| Jer. xlix. | | | Robinson, ii. 167.)
| 13, 22; Amos | | |
| i. 12; Micah | | |
| ii. 12 | | |
| | | |
=BOZRAH= of |Jer. xlviii. |Probably same |12 |Is perhaps the Bosor of
=MOAB= (2) | 24 | as _Bezer_, | | Moabite Stone in Moab,
| | in the | | but see preceding.
| | wilderness, | |
| | which see. | |
| | | |
=CABBON= |Josh. xv. 40 |_Not |-- |A town in the low
| | identified_ | | country of Judah.
| | | |
=CABUL= |Josh. xix. |_Kâbûl_ | 6 |The present village,
| 27; 1 Kings | | | ‘Kabûl,’ 9 miles east
| ix. 13 | | | of ʾAkka. Named as one
| | | | of the places on the
| | | | boundary of Asher.
| | | | (Robinson, iii. 87-8;
| | | | _Mem._ I. 308; Sh. V.)
| | | |
=CADES= |1 Macc. xi. |See _Kedesh_ |-- |_See_ Kedesh Naphtali
| 63, 73 | | | (3).
| | | |
=CADES-BARNE= |Judith v. 14 |See _Kadesh- |-- |
| | barnea_ | |
| | | |
=CAIN= (R.V. |Josh. xv. 57 |_Kh. Yukîn_ |14 |Named between Zanoah
=KAIN=) | | | | and Gibeah. Possibly
| | | | the ruin Yukîn, 3
| | | | miles south-east of
| | | | Hebron. (_Mem._ III.
| | | | 312; Sh. XXI.)
| | | |
=CALAH= |Gen. x. 11 |_Nimrûd_ |-- |The south quarter of
| | | | Nineveh.
| | | |
=CALNEH=, or |Gen. x. 10; |_Zerghul_ (?) |-- |
=CALNO= | Isa. x. 9; | | |
| Amos vi. 2; | | |
| Ezek. xxvii. | | |
| 23, Canneh | | |
| | | |
=CALEB EPHRATAH=|1 Chron. ii. |_Not |-- |Possibly Bethlehem.
| 24 | identified_ | |
| | | |
=CAMON= (R.V. |Judg. x. 5 |_Not |-- |A city of Gilead, and
=KAMON=) | | identified_ | | the place where Jair,
| | | | one of the Judges of
| | | | Israel, was buried. v.
| | | | Ant. 7, 6.
| | | |
=CANAAN=, The |Gen. xii. 5; |_Western |-- |The low country of the
Land of | xxiii. 2, | Palestine_ | | Jordan Valley and
| 19; xxxi. | | | the Mediterranean
| 18; xxxiii. | | | coast. The word means
| 18; xxxv. | | | ‘Lowlands.’ It is
| 6; xxxvii. | | | sometimes applied to
| 1; xlviii. | | | all Palestine.
| 3, 7; xlix. | | |
| 30; Num. | | |
| xiii. 2, 17; | | |
| xxxiii. 40, | | |
| 51; Josh. | | |
| xxi. 2; | | |
| Judg. xxi. | | |
| 12; etc., | | |
| etc. | | |
| | | |
=CAPHAR-SALAMA= |1 Macc. vii. |_Not |-- |Kefr Silwan (Smith’s
| 31; xii. | identified_ | | _Bible Dictionary_),
| Ant. 10, 4 | | | near Jerusalem. The
| | | | village Selmeh, near
| | | | Joppa. (Conder,
| | | | _Handbook to the
| | | | Bible_.)
| | | |
=CAPHIRA= |1 Esdr. v. 19 |See |-- |
| | _Chephirah_ | |
| | | |
=CAPHENATHA= |1 Macc. xii. |_Not |-- |A place close and
| 37 | identified_ | | on east side of
| | | | Jerusalem, and
| | | | repaired by Jonathan.
| | | |
=CAPHTOR= |Deut. ii. 23; |_Not | |
| Jer. xlvii. | identified_ | |
| 4; Amos ix. 7| | |
| | | |
=CARCHEMISH= |2 Chron. |_Jerablûs_ or |-- |In 2 Chron. xxxv. 20,
(R.V. | xxxv. 20; | _Membij_ | | Charchemish, and
=CARCHEMISH=) | Isa. x. 9; | | | in Esdras i. 25,
| Jer. xlvi. 2 | | | Carchamis.
| | | |
=CARIA= |1 Macc. xv. 23|South-west |-- |
| | portion of | |
| | Asia Minor | |
| | | |
=CARMEL=, Mount |Josh. xii. |_Jebel Kŭrmŭl_| 6 |Now called Jebel
| 22; xix. | | | Kŭrmŭl. (_Mem._ I.
| 26; 1 Kings | | | 264; Sh. V.)
| xviii. 19, | | |
| 20, 42; 2 | | |
| Kings ii. | | |
| 25; iv. 25; | | |
| xix. 23; 2 | | |
| Chron. xxvi. | | |
| 10; Cant. | | |
| vii. 5; Isa. | | |
| xxxiii. 9; | | |
| xxxv. 2; | | |
| xxxvii. 24; | | |
| Jer. xlvi. | | |
| 18; l. 19; | | |
| Amos i. 2; | | |
| ix. 3; Micah | | |
| vii. 14; | | |
| Nah. i. 4; | | |
| Judith i. 8 | | |
| | | |
=CARMEL= (of |Josh. xv. 55; |_el Kŭrmŭl_ |14 |The present ruined
Judah) | 1 Sam. xv. | | | town Kŭrmŭl, south of
| 12; xxv. 2, | | | Hebron. (_Mem._ III.
| 5, 7, 40 | | | 212; Sh. XXI.)
| | | |
=CARNAIM= |1 Macc. v. |_Ashtaroth |-- |_See_ Ashteroth
| 26, 43, 44 | Karnaim_ | | Karnaim, also called
| | | | Carnion (2 Macc. xii.
| | | | 21, 26).
| | | |
=CASIPHIA= |Ezra viii. 17 |_Not |-- |On the road between
| | identified_ | | Babylon and Jerusalem.
| | | |
=CASPHON= or |1 Macc. v. |_Not |-- |One of the strong
=CASPHOR= | 26, 36 | identified_ | | cities in the country
| | | | of Galaad.
| | | |
=CASPIS= |2 Macc. xii. |_Not |-- |Whether east or west
| 13 | identified_ | | of Jordan uncertain.
| | | | Possibly the same
| | | | place as the preceding
| | | | two names (Casphon and
| | | | Casphor) apply to.
| | | |
=CEDRON= |1 Macc. xv. |_Katrah_ |13 |The modern village,
| 39, 41; xvi. | | | Katrah, 5 miles east
| 9 | | | of Yebnah (Jamnia).
| | | | (_Mem._ II. 410; Sh.
| | | | XVI.)
| | | |
=CHADIAS= |1 Esdr. v. 20 |_Not |-- |
| | identified_ | |
| | | |
=CHALDEA= or |Jer. l. 10; | |-- |The most southern part
=CHALDAEA= | li. 24, 35; | | | of Babylonia. The
| Ezek. xi. | | | name Kaldai occurs in
| 24; xvi. 29; | | | cuneiform for an early
| xxiii. 15, | | | tribe.
| 16; Judith | | |
| v. 6 | | |
| | | |
=CHARACA= |2 Macc. xii. |_Not |-- |East of Jordan, in
| 17 | identified_ | | Gilead--750 stadia
| | | | from the city Caspis;
| | | | position of Caspis not
| | | | known.
| | | |
=CHARASHIM=, |1 Chron. iv. |_Kh. Hirsha_ | 9 |Near Lod and Ono
Valley | 14; Neh. xi. | (?)* | | (Neh. xi. 35). The
of (R.V. | 35 | | | name is preserved in
=GE-HARASHIM=) | | | | the ruin Hirsha, 4½
| | | | miles to the east of
| | | | Yalo (Sh. XVII.),
| | | | and 12½ south-east
| | | | of Lydda. The Wâdy
| | | | from it passing Yâlô
| | | | and joining Wâdy
| | | | Selmân (the Valley of
| | | | Ajalon) is one of the
| | | | principal watercourses
| | | | leading by Lod and
| | | | Ono. (_Mem._ III. 36;
| | | | Sh. XVII.)--Conder.
| | | |
=CHEBAR= |Ezek. i. 1, |_Not |-- |A river in ‘the land of
| 3; iii. 15, | identified_ | | the Chaldeans.’
| 23 | | |
| | | |
=CHELLUS= |Judith i. 9 |_Not |-- |On the west of Jordan.
| | identified_ | |
| | | |
=CHELOD= |Judith i. 6 |_Not |-- |
| | identified_ | |
| | | |
=CHEPHAR- |Josh. xviii. |_Kh. Kefr |10 |Mentioned among the
HAAMMONAI= | 24 | ʾÂna_ (?) | | towns of Benjamin.
(R.V. | | | | Thought to be the
=CHEPHAR- | | | | ruin ‘Kefr ʾÂna,’ 3
AMMONI=) | | | | miles north of Bethel.
| | | | (_Mem._ II. 299; Sh.
| | | | XIV.)
| | | |
=CHEPHIRAH= |Josh. ix. 17; |_Kefîreh_ |14 |The ruin Kefîreh, 8
| xviii. 26; | | | miles north-west of
| Ezra ii. 25; | | | Jerusalem. 1 Esdr. v.
| Neh. vii. 29 | | | 19, Caphira. (_Mem._
| | | | III. 36; Sh. XVII.)
| | | |
=CHERITH=, The |1 Kings xvii. |_Not |-- |Jerome (Onomasticon
Brook | 3, 5 | identified_ | | Chorath) would place
| | | | the Cherith beyond
| | | | Jordan. Schwarz, ‘Wâdy
| | | | Alias or Yabis,’
| | | | opposite ‘Beth Shean.’
| | | | Marino Sanuto, in
| | | | 1321, makes it run by
| | | | Phasaelis,--Herod’s
| | | | city in the Jordan
| | | | Valley. Robinson
| | | | proposed ‘Wâdy Kelt,’
| | | | behind Jericho. The
| | | | expression ‘facing’
| | | | Jordan favours the
| | | | view that it was east
| | | | of that river.
| | | |
=CHERUB= |Ezra ii. 59; |_Not |14 |Possibly in Babylonia,
| Neh. vii. 61 | identified_ | | but uncertain. One
| | | | of the (five) places
| | | | from which some of the
| | | | Captivity returned and
| | | | could not prove their
| | | | pedigree.
| | | |
=CHESALON= |Josh. xv. 10 |_Kesla_ |14 |On Mount Jearim. The
| | | | name is preserved in
| | | | Kesla, the village
| | | | 10 miles west of
| | | | Jerusalem. (Conder’s
| | | | _Handbook to the
| | | | Bible_, p. 259; _Mem._
| | | | III. 25, 26; Sh. XVII.)
| | | |
=CHESIL= |Josh. xv. 30 |_Not |14 |In Josh. xix. 4,
| | identified_ | | Bethul. 1 Chr. iv. 30,
| | Same as | | Bethuel.
| | _Bethul_ | |
| | | |
=CHESULLOTH= |Josh. xix. 18 |_Iksâl_ | 6 |The present village,
| | | | Iksâl of Issachar. The
| | | | Xaloth of Josephus,
| | | | or Chisloth Tabor.
| | | | (_Mem._ I. 365; Sh.
| | | | VI.)
| | | |
=CHETTIIM= |1 Macc. i. 1 |_Chittim_ or |-- |
| | _Macedonia_ | |
| | | |
=CHEZIB= |Gen. xxxviii. |_ʾAin Kezbeh_ |14 |The name appears to
| 5 | (?)* | | linger in that of
| | | | ʾAin Kezbeh. Possibly
| | | | Beit Nettîf near it.
| | | | (_Mem._ III. 36; Sh.
| | | | XVII.)--Conder.
| | | |
=CHIDON=, The |1 Chron. |_Not |-- |= Nachon, 2 Sam. vi.
Threshing-Floor| xiii. 9 | identified_ | | 6. Somewhere between
| | | | Kirjath-jearim and
| | | | Jerusalem.
| | | |
=CHILMAD= |Ezek. xxvii. |_Kalwâdha_ |-- |Near Baghdad. Named
| 23 | | | with ‘Sheba’ and
| | | | ‘Asshur.’
| | | |
=CHINNERETH= |Deut. iii. |_Not |-- |A fortified city of
(R.V. | 17; Josh. | identified_ | | Naphtali. The Talmud
=CHINNEROTH=, | xix. 35; xi. | | | (Tal. Jer. Megillah,
Josh. xi. 2; 1 | 2 | | | 70a) renders the
Kings xv. 20) | | | | name by Ginizer =
| | | | Gennesareth. _See_ the
| | | | next.
| | | |
=CHINNERETH=, |Num. xxxiv. |_Sea of | 6 |Sea of Galilee or Bahr
Sea of | 11; Deut. | Galilee_ | | Tubarîya. By Josephus
| iii. 17; | | | and Maccabees.
| Josh. xii. | | | Gennesar, which see.
| 3; xiii. 27 | | |
| | | |
=CHISLOTH-TABOR=|Josh. xix. 12 |Same as |-- |_See_ Chesulloth.
| | _Chesulloth_ | | (_Mem._ I. 365; Sh.
| | | | VI.)
| | | |
=CHITTIM= |Num. xxiv. |_Cyprus_ |-- |A Japhetic people or
| 24; Isa. | | | place, remote from
| xxiii. 1, | | | Palestine, separated
| 12; Jer. ii. | | | therefrom by sea. In
| 10; Ezek. | | | Macc. i. 1, Chettims;
| xxvii. 6; | | | 1 Macc. viii. 5,
| Dan. xi. 30 | | | Citims; Gen. x. 4, 1
| | | | Chron. i. 7, Kittim.
| | | | In Old Testament
| | | | no doubt Cyprus is
| | | | intended; but in
| | | | Apocrypha, perhaps
| | | | Macedonia. _See_
| | | | Cyprus (Grove’s _Bible
| | | | Atlas_).
| | | |
=CHOBA=, or |Judith iv. 4; |_el Mekhubby_ |10 |The present ruin, ‘el
=CHOBAI= | xv. 4, 5 | (?)* | | Mekhubby,’ 9 miles
| | | | south-east of Jenîn.
| | | | (_Mem._ II. 231; Sh.
| | | | XII.)--Conder.
| | | |
=CHORASHAN= |1 Sam. xxx. 30|_Not |-- |Probably = Ashan of
(R.V. | | identified_ | | Simeon, Josh. xix. 4.
=CORASHAN=) | | | |
(R.V. | | | |
=BORASHAN=, | | | |
margin) | | | |
| | | |
=CHOZEBA= (R.V. |1 Chron. iv. |_Kh. |14 |Possibly the present
=COZEBA=) | 22 | Kûeizîba_ | | ruin Kûeizîba, 2½
| | (?)* | | miles north-east of
| | | | Hŭlhûl. (_Mem._ III.
| | | | 313; Sh. XXI.)--Conder.
| | | |
=CHUN= (R.V. |1 Chron. |_Not |-- |_See_ Berothah.
=CUN=) | xviii. 8 | identified_ | |
| | | |
=CHUSI= |Judith vii. 18|_Kûzah_ (?)* |10 |The present village,
| | | | near the brook
| | | | Mochmur, 6 miles
| | | | south of Shechem.
| | | | (_Mem._ II. 286; Sh.
| | | | XIV.)--Conder.
| | | |
=CINNEROTH= |1 Kings xv. 20|_El Ghuweir_ |-- |Probably the district
(R.V. | | | | called later the
=CHINNEROTH=) | | | | ‘land of Genesareth.’
| | | | Identical with
=CIRAMA= |1 Esdr. v. 20 |_Not |-- | Chinnereth, which see.
| | identified_ | |
| | | |
=CNIDUS= |1 Macc. xv. |On _Cape Krio_|-- |A city of great
| 23; Acts | | | importance, at one
| xxvii. 7 | | | time situated on a
| | | | promontory called
| | | | Cape Crio, at the
| | | | extreme south-west of
| | | | the peninsula of Asia
| | | | Minor. (Smith’s _Bible
| | | | Dictionary_.)
| | | |
=CILICIA= |Judith i. 7, | | |In Asia Minor.
| 12; ii. 21, | | |
| 25; 1 Macc. | | |
| xi. 14; 2 | | |
| Macc. iv. 36 | | |
| | | |
=COELESYRIA= |1 Esd. ii. |_el Bukâʾa_ | 3 |A name given by the
and =CELOSYRIA=| 17, 24, 27; | | | Greeks to the great
| iv. 48; vi. | | | valley between Libanus
| 29; vii. 1; | | | and Anti-Libanus.
| viii. 67; 1 | | | Also applied to
| Macc. x. 69; | | | the district east
| 2 Macc. iii. | | | of Anti-Libanus,
| 5, 8; iv. 4; | | | including the Damascus
| viii. 8; x. | | | country. (Smith’s
| 11; Ant. i. | | | _Bible Dictionary_.)
| 11, 5; xiii. | | |
| 13, 2 | | |
| | | |
=COLA= |Judith xv. 4 |_Kh. Kâʾaûn_ |10 |A place named with
| | (?)* | | Chobai (Judg. xv. 4).
| | | | Perhaps Kh. Kâʾaûn in
| | | | the Jordan Valley.
| | | | (_Mem._ II. 238; Sh.
| | | | XII.)--Conder.
| | | |
=COS= |1 Macc. xv. 23|_Stanchio_ |-- |Now called Stanchio
| | | | or Stanko, an island
| | | | in the Grecian
| | | | Archipelago. For a
| | | | good account of the
| | | | island, see Clarke’s
| | | | _Travels_, vol. ii.,
| | | | pp. 196-213, and
| | | | 321-333.
| | | |
=CRETE= |1 Macc. x. 67 | | |The island of Crete.
| | | |
=CUSH= |Gen. x. 6, 8; | | |_See_ Ethiopia.
| 1 Chron. i. | | |
| 8-10; Isa. | | |
| xi. 11 | | |
| | | |
=CYAMON= |Judith vii. 3 |_Tell Keimûn_ |10 |‘Lying in the plain
| | | | over Esdraelom.’
| | | | Eusebius and Jerome
| | | | identify it with Camon
| | | | in Upper Galilee,
| | | | the burial-place of
| | | | Jair; _see_ Camon. Now
| | | | generally believed to
| | | | be represented by Tell
| | | | Keimûn (Jokneam), on
| | | | the edge of the plain
| | | | of Esdraelon, near the
| | | | south-east corner of
| | | | Carmel.
| | | |
=CYPRUS= |1 Macc. xv. |_Cyprus_ |-- |The well-known island
| 23; 2 Macc. | | | off the coast of
| x. 13; xii. 2| | | Syria. In the Old
| | | | Testament called
| | | | Chittim and Kittim.
| | | | (Grove’s _Bible
| | | | Index_.) _See_ Chittim.
| | | |
=CYRENE= |1 Macc. xv. 23|_el Krenna_ |-- |A city of Africa,
| | | | between Carthage and
| | | | Egypt.
| | | |
=DABBASHETH= |Josh. xix. 11 |_Kh. Dabsheh_*| 6 |A town on the boundary
(R.V. | | | | of Zebulon, next to
=DABBESHETH=) | | | | Jokneam. Now the
| | | | ruin Dabsheh, south
| | | | of Teirshiha. (Sh.
| | | | III.)--Conder.
| | | |
=DABERATH= or |Josh. xix. |_Debûrieh_ | 6 |The present village
=DABAREH= | 12; xxi. 28; | | | Debûrieh under Tabor.
(R.V. | 1 Chr. vi. 72| | | (_Mem._ I. 365, 366;
=DABERATH=) | | | | Sh. VI.)
| | | |
=DAMASCUS= |Gen. xiv. |_Dimeshk esh_ | 3 |The ancient city now
| 15; xv. | _Shâm_ | | called Dimeshk esh
| 2; 2 Sam. | | | Shâm.
| viii. 5, 6, | | |
| etc., etc.; | | |
| 1 Macc. xi. | | |
| 62; xii. 32 | | |
| | | |
=DAN= (Leshem |Gen. xiv. |_Tell el Kâdy_| 6 |Laish, Judg. xviii. 7,
or Laish) | 14; Deut. | | | 14, 27, 29; Isa. x.
| xxxiv. 1; | | | 30; Leshem, Josh. xix.
| Josh. xix. | | | 47. Josephus (viii.
| 47; Judg. | | | Ant. 8, 4) places it
| xviii.; 1 | | | near the springs of
| Sam. iii. | | | Lesser Jordan. The
| 20; 2 Sam. | | | name lingers in that
| iii. 10; | | | of the stream called
| xvii. 11; | | | Leddân--and the site
| xxiv. 2, 15; | | | of the city may be
| 1 Kings iv. | | | found at Tell el Kâdy.
| 25; xii. 29, | | | (_Mem._ I. 96; Sh. II.)
| 30; xv. 20; | | |
| 2 Kings x. | | |
| 29; 1 Chr. | | |
| xxi. 2; 2 | | |
| Chr. xvi. | | |
| 4; xxx. 5; | | |
| Jer. iv. 15; | | |
| viii. 16; | | |
| Ezek. xxvii. | | |
| 19; Am. | | |
| viii. 14 | | |
| | | |
=DAN=, Tribe of |Gen. xxx. 6; | |-- |‘And the border of
| xxxv. 25; | | | their inheritance was
| xlvi. 23; | | | _Zorah_ and _Eshtaol_;
| xlix. 16, | | | and _Ir-shemesh_;
| 17; Exod. i. | | | and _Shaalabbin_,
| 4; xxxi. 6; | | | and _Ajalon_, and
| xxxv. 34; | | | _Ithlah_; and _Elon_,
| xxxviii. 23; | | | and _Timnah_,
| Lev. xxiv. | | | and _Ekron_; and
| 11; Num. i. | | | _Eltekeh_, and
| 12, 38, 39; | | | _Gibbethon_, and
| ii. 25, 31; | | | _Baalath_, and
| vii. 66; x. | | | _Jehud_, and
| 25; xiii. | | | _Beneberak_, and
| 12; xxvi. | | | _Gath-rimmon_; and
| 42; xxxiv. | | | _Mejarkon_, and
| 22; Deut. | | | _Rakkon_, with the
| xxvii. 13; | | | border over against
| xxxiii. 22; | | | Joppa’ (Josh. xix.
| Josh. xix. | | | 40, 47). ‘Included
| 40, 47, 48; | | | all that part of _the
| xxi. 5, 23; | | | valley_ which respects
| Judg. i. | | | the sunsetting, and
| 34; v. 17; | | | were bounded by
| xiii. 25; | | | _Azotus Dora_; as
| xviii. 1-30; | | | also they had all
| 1 Chr. ii. | | | _Jamnia_ and _Gath_,
| 2; xii. 35; | | | from _Ekron_ to that
| xxvii. 22; | | | mountain where the
| 2 Chr. ii. | | | tribe of Judah begins’
| 14; Ezek. | | | (v. Ant. i. 22).
| xlviii. 1, | | |
| 2, 32 | | |
| | | |
=DAN-JAAN= |2 Sam. xxiv. 6|_Kh. Dâniân_ | 6 |Now the ruin Dânîan, 4
| | | | miles north of Achzib.
| | | | Between Tyre and Akka.
| | | | (_Mem._ I. 152, Sh.
| | | | III.)
| | | |
=DANNAH= |Josh. xv. 49 |_Idhna_* |14 |Probably the present
| | | | village Idhna, west of
| | | | Hebron 8 miles. There
| | | | is a Kh. Dahneh, 4½
| | | | miles south of Beit
| | | | Jibrin. (_Mem._ III.
| | | | 330; Sh. XXI.)--Conder.
| | | |
=DAPHNE= |2 Macc. iv. 33|_Beit el Maa_ |-- |A famous sanctuary of
| | | | Apollo, with a grove.
| | | | A place now called
| | | | Beit el Maa, on the
| | | | Orontes, 5 miles
| | | | south-west of Antioch.
| | | |
=DATHEMA= or |1 Macc. v. 9 |_Remtheh_ (?) | 7 |Perhaps Dâmeh in the
=DAMETHA= | | | | Lejjah. _See_ Conder’s
| | | | _Handbook to the
| | | | Bible_, p. 295.
| | | |
=DAVID=, City of|2 Sam. vi. | | |
| 12, 16; 1 | | |
| Kings ii. | | |
| 10; iii. 1; | | |
| viii. 1; ix. | | |
| 24; xi. 27, | | |
| 43; xiv. 31; | | |
| xv. 8, 24; | | |
| xxii. 50; 2 | | |
| Kings viii. | | |
| 24; ix. 28; | | |
| xii. 21; | | |
| xiv. 20; xv. | | |
| 7, 38; xvi. | | |
| 20; 1 Chr. | | |
| xi. 5, 7; | | |
| xiii. 13; | | |
| xv. 1, 29; 2 | | |
| Chr. v. 2; | | |
| viii. 11; | | |
| ix. 31; xii. | | |
| 16; xiv. 1; | | |
| xvi. 14; | | |
| xxi. 1, 20; | | |
| xxiv. 16, | | |
| 25; xxvii. | | |
| 9; xxxii. 5, | | |
| 30; xxxiii. | | |
| 14; Neh. | | |
| iii. 16; | | |
| xii. 37; | | |
| Isa. xxii. | | |
| 9; 1 Macc. | | |
| i. 33; ii. | | |
| 31; vii. 32; | | |
| xiv. 36 | | |
| | | |
=DEBIR= (1) |Josh. x. 38, |_edh |14 |Also called
| 39; xi. 21; | Dhâherîyeh_* | | Kirjath-sannah
| xii. 13; xv. | | | (Josh. xv. 49);
| 15, 49; xxi. | | | Kirjath-sepher (Josh.
| 15; Judg. i. | | | xv. 15; Jud. i. 11,
| 11; 1 Chr. | | | 12). Now the village
| vi. 58 | | | ‘edh Dhâherîyeh,’
| | | | south-west of Hebron.
| | | | (_Mem._ III. 402; Sh.
| | | | XXV.)--Conder.
| | | |
=DEBIR= (2) |Josh. xv. 7 |_Thoghret ed |14 |A place on the border
| | Debr_ (?) | | of Judah and Benjamin,
| | | | named next to
| | | | ‘Adummim.’ The name
| | | | ‘Thoghret ed Debr’
| | | | (the pass of the rear)
| | | | occurs half-a-mile
| | | | south-west of ‘Talʾat
| | | | ed Dumm.’ (_Mem._
| | | | III.; Sh. XVIII.)
| | | |
=DEBIR= (3) |Josh. xiii. 26|_Not | 7 |One of the border
(R.V. margin | | identified_ | | towns of Gad, named
=LIDEBIR=) | | | | next to ‘Mahanaim.’
| | | | Possibly Ibdir, 6½
| | | | miles to the east of
| | | | Zaphon, and south of
| | | | ‘The Yarmûk,’ and
| | | | apparently identical
| | | | with Lo-debar, which
| | | | see.
| | | |
=DEDAN= |Jer. xxv. 23; |_Not |-- |
| xlix. 8; | identified_ | |
| Ezek. xxv. | | |
| 13; Isa. | | |
| xxi. 13 | | |
| | | |
=DELUS= |1 Macc. xv. 23|_Delos_ |-- |One of the smallest of
| | | | the Cyclades in the
| | | | Ægean Sea.
| | | |
=DESSAU= |2 Macc. xiv. |_Not |-- |Adassa has been
| 16 | identified_ | | suggested (Ewald).
| | | |
=DIBLATH= (R.V. |Ezek. vi. 14 |_Dibl_ (??)* | 6 |Probably Riblah, north
=DIBLAH=) | | | | of Baalbek. See
| | | | _Dictionary of Bible_.
| | | | Or the present village
| | | | ‘Dibl’ in Naphtali.
| | | | (_Mem._ I. 21; Sh.
| | | | IV.)--Conder.
| | | |
=DIBON= (1) |Num. xxi. 30; |_Dhîbân_ |15 |Also called ‘Dibon
| xxxii. 3, | | | Gad.’ Now the heaps
| 34; xxxiii. | | | of ruins north of the
| 45, 46; | | | river Arnon, called
| Josh. xiii. | | | ‘Dhîbân.’ (Irby
| 9, 17; Isa. | | | and Mangles, 142;
| xv. 2; Jer. | | | Burckhardt, Syr., 372.)
| xlviii. 18, | | |
| 22 | | |
| | | |
=DIBON= (2) |Neh. xi. 25 | |-- |Thought to be identical
| | | | with Dimonah.
| | | |
=DIBON-GAD= |Num. xxxiii. |_Dhîbân_ |-- |_See_ Dibon (1).
| 45, 46 | | |
| | | |
=DILEAN= (R.V. |Josh. xv. 38 |_Not |-- |One of the cities of
=DILAN=) | | identified_ | | Judah in the low
| | | | country. Mentioned
| | | | with Migdal-gad,
| | | | Lachish, Eglon, etc.
| | | | Beit Tîma, north-west
| | | | of the latter, has
| | | | been proposed.
| | | |
=DIMNAH= |Josh. xxi. 35 |_Rummâneh_ (?)| 6 |A city in the tribe of
| | | | Zebulon. Thought to be
| | | | Rimmon (1). Compare 1
| | | | Chron. vi. 77.
| | | |
=DIMON=, Waters |Isa. xv. 9 |_Umm Deineh_ |15 |Streams east of the
of | | (?)* | | Salt Sea. Possibly
| | | | ‘Umm Deineh,’ near
| | | | ‘Wâdy Themed.’ _See_
| | | | Conder’s _Heth and
| | | | Moab_.
| | | |
=DIMONAH= |Josh. xv. 22 | |-- |‘Towards the coast of
| | | | Edom, southwards.’
| | | |
=DINHABAH= |Gen. xxxvi. |_Not |-- |City of Bela, King of
| 32; 1 Chron. | identified_ | | Edom.
| i. 43 | | |
| | | |
=DIZAHAB= (R.V. |Deut. i. 1 |_Dahab_ (??) |-- |Identified by Robinson
=DI-ZAHAB=) | | | | (i. 147, ii. 187) with
| | | | Dahab, a promontory on
| | | | the western shore of
| | | | the Gulf of Akabah.
| | | |
=DOCUS= |1 Macc. xvi. |Near _ʾAin |14 |A fort somewhere near
| 15 | Dûk_ | | Jericho--the name is
| | | | recoverable in ‘ʾAin
| | | | Dûk.’ (_Mem._ III.
| | | | 173; Sh. XVIII.)
| | | |
=DOPHKAH= |Num. xxxiii. |_Not |-- |One of the camping
| 12, 13 | identified_ | | stations of the
| | | | Israelites, between
| | | | Rephidim and the Sea.
| | | |
=DOR= (=DORA= 1 |Josh. xi. 2; |_Tantûra_ | 9 |Jerome places it 9
Macc. xv. 11, | xii. 23; | | | miles (the exact
13, 25) | xvii. 11; | | | distance is 8 miles)
| Judg. i. 27; | | | from Cæsarea, on the
| 1 Kings iv. | | | road to Ptolemais. The
| 11; 1 Chr. | | | ruins of a city here
| vii. 29 | | | exist near the modern
| | | | village Tantûra.
| | | | (_Mem._ II. 7; Sh.
| | | | VII.)
| | | |
=DOTHAIM= |Judith iv. 6; |_Tell Dôthân_ |10 |= Dôthân, which see.
| vii. 3, 18; | | |
| viii. 3 | | |
| | | |
=DOTHAN= |Gen. xxxvii. |_Tell Dôthân_ |10 |The present ruins and
| 17; 2 Kings | | | well, ‘Tell Dôthân,’
| vi. 13 | | | north of Samaria.
| | | | (_Mem._ II. 215; Sh.
| | | | XI. _See_ also Vol. I.
| | | | p. 368, under ‘Khan
| | | | Jubb Yûsef.’)
| | | |
=DRAGON’S WELL= |Neh. ii. 13 |_Not |-- |In the neighbourhood of
| | identified_ | | Jerusalem.
| | | |
=DUMAH= |Josh. xv. 52 |_ed Dômeh_ |14 |The present ruin,
| | | | Dômeh, 10 miles
| | | | south-west of Hebron.
| | | | (_Mem._ III. 313; Sh.
| | | | XXI.)
| | | |
=DURA=, The |Dan. iii. 1 |_Dûair_ (?) |-- |The mound and vicinity
Plain of | | | | of Dûair, south-east
| | | | of Babylon.--M. Oppert.
| | | |
=EBAL=, Mount |Deut. xi. 29; |_Jebel |10 |Now called Jebel
| xxvii. 4, | Eslâmîyeh_ | | Eslamîyeh, and Jebel
| 13; Josh. | _Jebel et | | et Tôr. (_Mem._ II.
| viii. 30, 33 | Tôr_ | | 186; Sh. XI.) Ebal,
| | | | Gerizim, Olivet, and
| | | | Tabor are all named
| | | | Tôr or ‘summit.’
| | | |
=EBEN-EZER= |1 Sam. iv. 1; |_Deir Abân_ |14 |Jerome places near
| v. 1; vii. | (?)* | | ‘Beth-shemesh,’
| 12; 6 Ant. | | | probably intending
| ii. 2 | | | the site of the
| | | | present village, Deir
| | | | Abân, east of ʾAin
| | | | Shems. _See_ Shen.
| | | | (_Mem._ III. 24; Sh.
| | | | XVII.)--Conder.
| | | |
=EBRONAH= (R.V. |Num. xxxiii. |_Not |-- |One of the camping
=ABRONAH=) | 34 | identified_ | | stations of the
| | | | Israelites.
| | | |
=ECBATANA= |Ezra vi. 2; |_Takht-i- |-- |There were two places
| Esdr. vi. | Suleiman_ | | of this name. One the
| 23; Jud. i. | and _Hamadan_| | capital of Northern
| 1, 2, 14; | | | Media, now called
| Tob. iii. 7; | | | Takht-i-Suleiman.
| vi. 5; vii. | | | The southern one the
| 1; xiv. 12, | | | metropolis of the
| 14; 2 Macc. | | | province of Media
| ix. 3 | | | Magna (2 Macc. ix.
| | | | 3), now Hamadan in
| | | | Persia.--Smith’s
| | | | _Bible Dictionary_.
| | | |
=ED=, Altar of |Josh. xxii. 34|_Not |-- |Somewhere east of
| | identified_ | | Jordan.
| | | |
=EDAR=, Tower |Gen. xxxv. 21 |_Not |14 |Jerome places it 1,000
of | | identified_ | | paces from Bethlehem.
(R.V. =EDER=, | | | | (_Mem._ III. 28; Sh.
Tower of) | | | | XVII.)
| | | |
=EDER= |Josh. xv. 21 |_Not |-- |One of the uttermost
| | identified_ | | cities of Judah,
| | | | towards the coast
| | | | of Edom. Kh. el
| | | | ʾAdâr, 5 miles south
| | | | of Gaza, has been
| | | | suggested (Henderson’s
| | | | _Handbook_); but the
| | | | situation is too far
| | | | west apparently.
| | | |
=EDOM=, |Gen. xxv. 30; | | |The district east of
=IDUMEA=, The | xxxii. 3; | | | the Wâdy ʾArabah.
Land of Mt. | xxxvi. 1, 8, | | | _See_ Mount Seir.
Seir | 9-43; Ex. | | |
| xv. 15; Num. | | |
| xx. 14; xxi. | | |
| 4; xxiv. 18; | | |
| Jos. xv. 1; | | |
| Judg. v. 4; | | |
| xi. 17, 18; | | |
| 1 Sam. xiv. | | |
| 47; 2 Sam. | | |
| viii. 14; 1 | | |
| Kings ix. | | |
| 26; 2 Kings | | |
| iii. 8, 20; | | |
| viii. 20; | | |
| xix. 7; 2 | | |
| Chr. viii. | | |
| 17; xxi. 8; | | |
| xxv. 19; Ps. | | |
| lxxxiii. 6; | | |
| cviii. 9; | | |
| Isa. xi. | | |
| 14; xxxiv. | | |
| 5; lxiii. | | |
| 1; Jer. ix. | | |
| 26; xxv. | | |
| 21; xxvii. | | |
| 3; xl. 11; | | |
| xlix. 7, 17; | | |
| Lam. iv. 21; | | |
| Ezek. xxv. | | |
| 12; xxxii. | | |
| 29; xxxv. | | |
| 15; xxxvi. | | |
| 5; Dan. xi. | | |
| 41; Joel | | |
| iii. 19; Am. | | |
| i. 6; ii. | | |
| 1; ix. 12; | | |
| Obad. i. 8; | | |
| Mal. i. 4; | | |
| etc. | | |
| | | |
=EDREI= |Num. xxi. 33; |_Ed Deraʾah_ | 7 |South-east of el
| Deut. i. 4; | | | Mezeirib.
| iii. 1, 10; | | |
| Josh. xii. | | |
| 4; xiii. 12, | | |
| 31 | | |
| | | |
=EDREI= (2) |Josh. xix. 37 |_Yʾater_ (?)* | 6 |Probably the present
| | | | village Yʾater, 11
| | | | miles south-east of
| | | | Tyre. Allotted to
| | | | Naphtali. (_Mem._ I.
| | | | 205; Sh. IV.)--Conder.
| | | |
=EGLAIM= |Isa. xv. 8 |_Not |-- |Thought to be identical
| | identified_ | | with En-eglaim, which
| | | | see.
| | | |
=EGLON= |Josh. x. 3, |_Kh. ʾAjlân_ |13 |The present mound and
| 5, 23, 34, | | | ruins, ʾAjlân, 16
| 36, 37; xii. | | | miles north-east of
| 12; xv. 39 | | | Gaza. (_Mem._ III.
| | | | 278; Sh. XX.)
| | | |
=EGYPT= |Very | | |
| frequently | | |
| mentioned | | |
| | | |
=EKREBEL= |Judith vii. 18|_ʾAkrabeh_ |10 |The present village
| | | | ʾAkrabeh, south-east
| | | | of Nablus. (_Mem._
| | | | II. 389; Sh.
| | | | XV.)--Conder’s
| | | | _Handbook to the
| | | | Bible_, 290.
| | | |
=EKRON= |Josh. xiii. |_ʾAkir_ |13 |Now the village ʾAkir,
(=ACCARON=, 1 | 3; xv. 11, | | | in Philistia, 6
Macc. x. 89) | 45, 46; xix. | | | miles west of Gezer.
| 43; Judg. i. | | | The Accaron of the
| 18; 1 Sam. | | | Crusaders. (_Mem._ II.
| v. 10; vi. | | | 408; Sh. XVI.)
| 16; vii. 14; | | |
| xvii. 52; 2 | | |
| Kings i. 1, | | |
| 2-16; Jer. | | |
| xxv. 20; Am. | | |
| i. 8; Zeph. | | |
| ii. 4; Zech. | | |
| ix. 5, 7 | | |
| | | |
=ELAH=, Valley |1 Sam. xvii. |_Wâdy es Sŭnt_|14 |The scene of the
of | 2, 19; xxi. 9| | | conflict and death of
(R.V. =ELAH=, | | | | Goliath. Now called
Vale of, ‘or | | | | Wâdy es Sŭnt, which
Terebinth’) | | | | passes Shocoh and Gath
| | | | immediately on the
| | | | north. (_Mem._ III.;
| | | | Sh. XVII.)
| | | |
=ELAM= |Gen. xiv. 1, | | |The Susiana and
| 9; Isa. xi. | | | Persia of the
| 11; xxi. 2; | | | Greeks.--Grove’s
| Jer. xxv. | | | _Bible Index_.
| 25; xlix. | | |
| 34-39; Ezek. | | |
| xxxii. 24; | | |
| Dan. viii. 2 | | |
| | | |
=ELATH=, or |Deut. ii. 8; |Close to |-- |‘Beside Ezion-geber,
=ELOTH= | 1 Kings ix. | _ʾAkabah | | on the shore of the
| 26; 2 Kings | Ailah_ | | Red Sea, in the land
| xiv. 22; | | | of Edom.’ The present
| xvi. 6; 2 | | | town ʾAkabah, or
| Chr. viii. | | | Ailah, at the head of
| 17; xxvi. 2 | | | the Gulf of ʾAkabah.
| | | |
=ELEALEH= |Num. xxxii. |_el ʾAl_ |15 |The present ruin ‘el
| 3-37; Isa. | | | ʾAl,’ near Heshbon.
| xv. 4; xvi. | | |
| 9; Jer. | | |
| xlviii. 34 | | |
| | | |
=ELEASA= |1 Macc. ix. 5 |_Kh. Ilʾasa_* |14 |Now the ruins Ilʾasa,
| | | | between the Upper and
| | | | Nether Beth-horon.
| | | | (_Mem._ III. 36; Sh.
| | | | XVII.)--Conder.
| | | |
=ELEPH= |Josh. xviii. |_Lifta_ (?)* |14 |One of the towns
| 28 | | | allotted to Benjamin.
| | | | The present village
| | | | Lifta (Conder),
| | | | 2 miles west of
| | | | Jerusalem.
| | | |
=ELEUTHERUS=, |1 Macc. xi. |_Nahr el |-- |The modern ‘Nahr el
The River | 7; xii. 30 | Kebîr_ | | Kebîr,’ north of
| | | | Tripolis.
| | | |
=ELIM= |Exod. xv. 27; |_Not |-- |The second camping
| xvi. 1; Num. | identified_ | | station of the
| xxxiii. 9, 10| | | Israelites after
| | | | crossing the Red
| | | | Sea, and noted for
| | | | 12 springs and 70
| | | | palm-trees. Thought to
| | | | be ‘Wâdy Ghŭrŭndul,’
| | | | on the route from Suez
| | | | to Jebel Mŭsa.
| | | |
=ELKOSH= |Nah. i. 1 |_Not |-- |The birth-place of
| | identified_ | | Nahum the prophet.
| | | | Probably somewhere in
| | | | Galilee.
| | | |
=ELLASAR= |Gen. xiv. 1 |_Senkereh_ |-- |Now Senkereh, on the
| | | | left bank of the
| | | | Euphrates.
| | | |
=ELON= |Josh. xix. 43 |_Not |10 |Probably the present
| | identified_ | | village ‘Beit Ello,’
| | Perhaps | | a town on the border
| | same as | | of Dan, 8 miles
| | Elon-beth- | | north-west of Bethel
| | hanan | | (Conder). (_Mem._ II.
| | | | 293; Sh. XIV.)
| | | |
=ELON-BETH- |1 Kings iv. 9 |_Beit ʾAnân_ |14 |The present village
HANAN= | | (?)* | | Beit ʾAnân (Conder),
| | | | 8½ miles from
| | | | Jerusalem, on the
| | | | ancient road leading
| | | | to Gimzo. (_Mem._ III.
| | | | 16; Sh. XVII.)
| | | |
=ELTEKEH= (R.V. |Josh. xix. |_Beit Lîkia_ |14 |One of the cities
=ELTEKE= Josh. | 44; xxi. 23 | (?)* | | in the border of
xxi. 23) | | | | Dan. Probably the
| | | | present Beit Lîkia,
| | | | 2 miles south of
| | | | Beth-horon the Nether.
| | | | (_Mem._ III. 16; Sh.
| | | | XVII.)--T. Drake.
| | | |
=ELTEKON= |Josh. xv. 59 |_Not |-- |One of the towns of
| | identified_ | | Judah, named next to
| | | | Beth-anoth.
| | | |
=ELTOLAD= |Josh. xv. 30; |_Not |-- |One of the cities in
| xix. 4; 1 | identified_ | | the south of Judah,
| Chr. iv. 29 | | | transferred to Simeon
| | | | = Tolad, 1 Chr. iv. 29.
| | | |
=EMMAUS=, |1 Macc. iii. |_ʾAmwâs_ |14 |The present village
Nicopolis | 40, 57; iv. | | | ʾAmwâs, 15 miles from
| 3; ix. 50; 2 | | | Jerusalem, near the
| Wars xx. 20, | | | modern road to Jaffa,
| 4; 3, iii. | | | mentioned by Josephus,
| 5; J. Ant. | | | 16 Ant. x. 7, 9, etc.
| xiii. 1, 3 | | | (_Mem._ II. 63; Sh.
| | | | XVII.)
| | | |
=ENAM= |Josh. xv. 34 |_Kh. Wâdy |14 |Possibly the present
| | ʾAlîn_ (?)* | | ruin ʾAlîn, near
| | | | Beth-shemesh.--Conder.
| | | |
=ENDOR= |Josh. xvii. |_Endôr_ |10 |Now the modern village
| 11; 1 Sam. | | | Endôr, 6 miles to the
| xxviii. 7; | | | east of Nazareth.
| Ps. lxxxiii. | | | (_Mem._ II. 84; Sh.
| 10 | | | IX.)
| | | |
=EN-EGLAIM= |Ezek. xlvii. |_Not |-- |Eusebius places a town
| 10 | identified_ | | of this name 8 miles
| | | | to the south of ‘Ar
| | | | Moab’; this would
| | | | probably mean ‘Kerak.’
| | | | ʾAin Hajlah, the
| | | | ancient Beth-hoglah,
| | | | has been suggested by
| | | | Tristram. _See_ Eglaim.
| | | |
=ENGADDI= |Ecclus. xxiv. |_ʾAin Jîdy_ |-- |_See_ En-gedi.
| 14 | | |
| | | |
=EN-GANNIM= (1) |Josh. xv. 34 |_Kh. Umm Jîna_|14 |A city in the low
| | | | country of Judah,
| | | | named between Zanoah
| | | | and Tappuah. Now the
| | | | ruin Umm Jîna, west
| | | | of Beth-shemesh.
| | | | (_Mem._ III. 42; Sh.
| | | | XVII.)--Clermont-
| | | | Ganneau.
| | | |
=EN-GANNIM= (2) |Josh. xix. |_Jenîn_ |10 |Now the modern town
| 21; xxi. 29 | | | Jenîn, on the extreme
| | | | south corner of
| | | | Esdraelon. On or
| | | | near the border of
| | | | Issachar. (_Mem._ II.
| | | | 44; Sh. VIII.)
| | | |
=EN-GEDI= |Josh. xv. |_ʾAin Jîdy_ |14 |Original name
| 62; 1 Sam. | | | Hazazon-tamar. The
| xxiii. 29; | | | well-known spring and
| xxiv. 1; 2 | | | ruins of ʾAin Jîdy, on
| Chr. xx. 2; | | | the west shore of the
| Cant. i. 14; | | | Dead Sea. (_Mem._ III.
| Ezek. xlvii. | | | 384; Sh. XXII.)
| 10 | | |
| | | |
=EN-HADDAH= |Josh. xix. 21 |_Kefr Adân_* |10 |On the border of
| | | | Issachar, and named
| | | | next to ‘En-gannim.’
| | | | Probably the present
| | | | village Kefr Adân,
| | | | 3 miles to the west
| | | | of Jenîn.--Conder.
| | | | (_Mem._ II. 45; Sh.
| | | | VIII.)
| | | |
=EN-HAKKORE= |Judg. xv. 19 |_Not |-- |The scene of one of
| | identified_ | | Samson’s exploits.
| | | |
=EN-HAZOR= |Josh. xix. 37 |_Kh. Hazîreh_ | 6 |One of the fenced
| | | | cities of Naphtali.
| | | | Now the heap of ruins
| | | | Hazîreh, on the
| | | | Naphtali side of the
| | | | boundary by Wâdy el
| | | | ʾAyûn. (_Mem._ I. 204;
| | | | Sh. IV.)
| | | |
=EN-MISHPAT= |Gen. xiv. 7 | | |Also called Kadesh.
| | | | _See_ Kadesh-barnea.
| | | |
=EN-RIMMON= |Josh. xv. 32; |_Kh. Umm er |13 |The Ain and Rimmon
| xix. 7; Neh. | Rŭmâmîn_ | | mentioned together in
| xi. 29; 1 | | | Josh. xv. 32; xix. 7;
| Chr. iv. 32; | | | 1 Chr. iv. 32, are
| Zech. xiv. 10| | | supposed by some to
| | | | be one place (?) and
| | | | identical with the
| | | | En-rimmon of Neh. xi.
| | | | 29. The proposed site
| | | | is that of Kh. Umm er
| | | | Rŭmâmîn. (_Mem._ III.
| | | | 32; Sh. XXIV.)
| | | |
=EN-ROGEL= |Josh. xv. 7; |_ʾAin Umm ed |14 |A landmark on the
| xviii. 16; 1 | Dêraj_ | | boundary between
| Kings i. 9; | | | Judah and Benjamin.
| 2 Sam. xvii. | | | The traditional place
| 17 | | | is ‘Bîr Eyûb’ (a
| | | | spring well), but the
| | | | arguments in favour of
| | | | ‘ʾAin Umm ed Deraj’
| | | | (spring of the mother
| | | | of steps), known to
| | | | Christians as the
| | | | ‘Virgin’s Fountain,’
| | | | are stronger and
| | | | more generally
| | | | accepted.--(Conder’s
| | | | _Handbook to the
| | | | Bible_, p. 334.) See
| | | | _Jerusalem_ vol., p.
| | | | 94.
| | | |
=EN-SHEMESH= |Josh. xv. 7; |_ʾAin Haud_ |14 |A landmark on the
| xviii. 17 | | | boundary between
| | | | Judah and Benjamin,
| | | | apparently ‘ʾAin
| | | | Haud,’ east of Bethany
| | | | (the well of the
| | | | Apostles--called the
| | | | Apostles’ fountain by
| | | | Christians). (_Mem._
| | | | III. 42; Sh. XVII.)
| | | |
=EN-TAPPUAH= |Josh. xvii. 7 |_Yasûf_ (?)* |10 |The spring near
| | | | Yasûf, at the head
| | | | of the branches of
| | | | Wâdy Kânah, south of
| | | | Shechem (Samaritan
| | | | Chronicle). (Conder’s
| | | | _Handbook to the
| | | | Bible_, p. 263.)
| | | |
=EPHES-DAMMIM= |1 Sam. xvii. |_Not |-- |Or Pas-dammim, ‘the
| 1; 1 Chr. | identified_ | | boundary of blood,’
| xi. 13 | | | the place where the
| | | | Philistines encamped
| | | | before the conflict
| | | | between David and
| | | | Goliath took place.
| | | | Between Socoh and
| | | | Azekah.
| | | |
=EPHRAIM=, |2 Sam. xiii. |_Taiyibeh_ (?)|10 |Named with Bethel and
=EPHRAIN=, or | 23; 2 Chron. | | | Jeshanah. Apparently
=EPHRON= | xiii. 19; | | | Ophrah of Benjamin,
| John xi. 54 | | | which see.
| | | |
=EPHRAIM=, Gate |2 Kings xiv. | | |One of the gates of the
of | 13; 2 Chr. | | | city of Jerusalem,
| xxv. 23; | | | probably on the
| Neh. viii. | | | north-west.
| 16; xii. 39 | | |
| | | |
=EPHRAIM=, |Josh. xvii. | | |The hill country of
Mount (R.V. | 15; xix. 50; | | | Ephraim, extending
=EPHRAIM=, | xx. 7; xxi. | | | from Bethel and Ramah
Hill Country | 21; xxiv. | | | on the south, to the
of) | 30, 33; | | | Great Plain on the
| Judg. ii. 9; | | | north.
| iii. 27; iv. | | |
| 5; vii. 24; | | |
| x. 1; xvii. | | |
| 1, 8; xviii. | | |
| 2, 13; xix. | | |
| 1, 16, 18; 1 | | |
| Sam. i. 1; | | |
| ix. 4; xiv. | | |
| 22; 2 Sam. | | |
| xx. 21; 1 | | |
| Kings iv. 8; | | |
| xii. 25; 2 | | |
| Kings v. 22; | | |
| 1 Chr. vi. | | |
| 67; 2 Chr. | | |
| xiii. 4; xv. | | |
| 8; xix. 4; | | |
| Jer. iv. 15; | | |
| xxxi. 6; l. | | |
| 19; Judith | | |
| vi. 2 | | |
| | | |
=EPHRAIM=, The |2 Sam. xviii. |_Not |-- |Somewhere on the east
Wood of (R.V. | 6 | identified_ | | of Jordan. The forest
=EPHRAIM=, The | | | | in which the great
Forest of) | | | | battle took place
| | | | between the forces of
| | | | Absalom and David. Not
| | | | far from Mahanaim.
| | | | (_Heth and Moab_, p.
| | | | 180.)
| | | |
=EPHRAIM=, |Josh. xvi.; 5 | |-- |‘The tribe of _Ephraim_
Tribe of | Ant. i. 22 | | | had by lot the land
| | | | that extended in
| | | | length from the river
| | | | _Jordan_ to _Gezer_;
| | | | but in breadth as far
| | | | as from _Bethel_, till
| | | | it ended at the _Great
| | | | Plain_’ (5 Ant. i. 22).
| | | |
=EPHRATH= or |Gen. xxxv. |_Beit Lahm_ |-- |The original name of
=EPHRATAH= | 16, 19; | | | Bethlehem of Judah,
(R.V. | xlviii. 7; | | | which see.
=EPHRATHAH=) | Ruth iv. 11; | | |
| 1 Chr. ii. | | |
| 24, 50; Ps. | | |
| cxxxii. 6; | | |
| Mic. v. 2 | | |
| | | |
=EPHRON= |1 Macc. v. |_Not |-- |One of the strong
| 46, 52; 2 | identified_ | | cities on the east
| Macc. xii. 27| | | of Jordan, between
| | | | Ashteroth Karnaim and
| | | | Beth-shean--was in a
| | | | valley, and destroyed
| | | | by Judas Maccabæus.
| | | |
=EPHRON=, Mount |Josh. xv. 9 | |-- |Between the waters of
| | | | Nephtoah and
| | | | Kirjath-jearim.
| | | |
=ERECH= |Gen. x. 10 |_Warka_ |-- |One of Nimrod’s cities
| | | | on the Euphrates, in
| | | | the neighbourhood of
| | | | Babylon.
| | | |
=ESDRAELON=, |Judith i. 8; |_Merj Ibn |10 |This name is the Greek
The Great Plain| iii. 9; iv. | ʾAmr_ | | form of the word
| 6; vii. 3 | | | Jezreel. Now called
| | | | ‘Merj ibn ʾAmr.’ (Sh.
| | | | V. and VIII.)
| | | |
=ESEK=, The Well|Gen. xxvi. 20 |_Not |-- |A well dug by Isaac’s
| | identified_ | | herdmen in the valley
| | | | of Jerar.
| | | |
=ESHCOL=, Brook |Gen. xiv. 13, |_Not |-- |The name ‘ʾAin
or Valley of | 24; Num. | identified_ | | Kashkaleh,’ perhaps a
| xiii. 23, | | | remnant of the ancient
| 24; xxxii. | | | one, is applied to a
| 9; Deut. i. | | | spring on the north
| 24 | | | side of Hebron, near
| | | | the head of a valley
| | | | where some of the most
| | | | extensive vineyards of
| | | | Palestine exist.
| | | |
=ESHEAN= (R.V. |Josh. xv. 52 |_es Sîmia_ |14 |One of the cities in
=ESHAN=) | | (?)* | | the mountains of
| | | | Judah. Possibly the
| | | | ruin ‘es Sîmia,’ near
| | | | Dumah. (_Mem._ III.
| | | | 313; Sh. XXI.)--Conder.
| | | |
=ESHTAOL= |Josh. xv. 33; |_Eshûʾa_ |14 |Probably the present
| xix. 41; | | | village Eshûʾa, in
| Judg. xiii. | | | the low country of
| 25; xvi. 31; | | | Judah, close to Zorah.
| xviii. 2, 8, | | | (_Mem._ II. 25; Sh.
| 11 | | | XVII.)
| | | |
=ESHTEMOA= |Josh. xv. 50; |_es Semûʾa_ |14 |The present village
(R.V. | xxi. 14; 1 | | | es Semûʾa, in the
=ESHTEMOH=, | Sam. xxx. | | | hill country south of
Josh. xv. 50) | 28; 1 Chr. | | | Hebron. (_Mem._ III.
| iv. 17, 19; | | | 412, Sh. XXV.)
| vi. 57 | | |
| | | |
=ESORA= |Judith iv. 4 |ʾ_Asîret el |10 |The present village
| | Hatab_ (??) | | ʾAsîret el Hatab, near
| | | | Shechem, on the north.
| | | | (_Mem._ II. 155; Sh.
| | | | XI.)
| | | |
=ETAM= (1) |1 Chr. iv. 32 |_Kh. ʾAitûn_ |13 |The present ruin
| | (?)* | | ʾAitûn, south-west
| | | | of Hebron, of the
| | | | tribe of Simeon.
| | | | (_Mem._ III. 261; Sh.
| | | | XX.)--Conder.
| | | |
=ETAM= (2) |2 Chr. xi. 6; |_ʾAin ʾAtân_* |14 |Probably the village
| 1 Chr. iv. 3 | | | Urtâs, south of
| | | | Bethlehem, near
| | | | which is the spring
| | | | called ʾAin ʾAtân.
| | | | (_Mem._ III. 43; Sh.
| | | | XVII.)--Conder.
| | | |
=ETAM=, The Rock|Judg. xv. 8 |_Beit ʾAtâb_ |14 |The rocky top on which
| | (?)* | | Beit ʾAtâb stands,
| | | | west of Bethlehem.
| | | | (_Mem._ III. 83; Sh.
| | | | XVII.)--Conder.
| | | |
=ETHAM= |Exod. xiii. |_Not |-- |One of the stations
| 20; Num. | identified_ | | of the Israelites
| xxxiii. 6 | | | ‘on the edge of the
| | | | wilderness.’
| | | |
=ETHER= |Josh. xv. 42; |_Kh. el ʾAtr_ |10 |Probably the ruin
| xix. 7; 1 | (?)* | | el ʾAtr, near Beit
| Chr. iv. 32 | | | Jibrin, allotted to
| | | | Simeon. (_Mem._ III.
| | | | 261; Sh. XX.)--Conder.
| | | |
=ETHIOPIA= |Gen. ii. 13; | |-- |Named ‘Cush’ by
| 2 Kings xix. | | | the Hebrews, and
| 9; Esth. i. | | | ‘Aithiopia’ by the
| 1; viii. 9; | | | Greeks. Æthiopia
| Job xxviii. | | | embraced Nubia,
| 19; Ps. | | | Sennaar, Kordofan, and
| lxviii. 31; | | | Northern Abyssinia.
| lxxxvii. 4; | | | The name Cush,
| Isa. xviii. | | | however, in some
| 1; xx. 3, | | | cases, if not in all,
| 5; xxxvii. | | | applies to part of
| 9; xliii. | | | Western Asia south
| 3; xlv. 14; | | | of the Caspian--the
| Ezek. xxix. | | | country of the Kassi
| 10; xxx. 4, | | | or Cosseans.
| 5; xxxviii. | | |
| 5; Nah. iii. | | |
| 9; Zeph. | | |
| iii. 10; 1 | | |
| Esd. iii. 2; | | |
| Judith i. | | |
| 10; Esth. | | |
| xiii. 1; | | |
| xvi. 1; Acts | | |
| viii. 27 | | |
| | | |
=EUPHRATES=, |Gen. ii. 14; | |-- |
River | xv. 18; | | |
| Deut. i. | | |
| 7; xi. 24; | | |
| Josh. i. 4; | | |
| 2 Sam. viii. | | |
| 3; 2 Kings | | |
| xxiii. 29; | | |
| xxiv. 7; 1 | | |
| Chr. v. 9; | | |
| xviii. 3; 2 | | |
| Chr. xxxv. | | |
| 20; Jer. | | |
| xiii. 4-7; | | |
| xlvi. 2, 6, | | |
| 10; li. 63; | | |
| 1 Esd. i. | | |
| 25, 27; 2 | | |
| Esd. xiii. | | |
| 43; Judith | | |
| i. 6; ii. | | |
| 24; Eccles. | | |
| xxiv. 26; 1 | | |
| Macc. iii. | | |
| 32, 37 | | |
| | | |
=EZEL=, Stone |1 Sam. xx. 19 |_Not |-- |A ‘stone’ or ‘mound,’
of, or (R.V., | | identified_ | | the scene of David and
margin, Mound | | | | Jonathan’s parting.
of) | | | |
| | | |
=EZEM= |1 Chr. iv. 29 | |-- |_See_ Azem.
| | | |
=EZION-GABER= |Num. xxxiii. |_Not |-- |The last camping
or =GEBER= | 35, 36; | identified_ | | station of the
| Deut. ii. 8; | | | Israelites before
| 1 Kings ix. | | | entering the
| 26; xxii. | | | wilderness of Zin,
| 48; 2 Chr. | | | which is Kadesh.
| viii. 17; | | | ‘King Solomon made
| xx. 36 | | | a navy of ships in
| | | | Ezion-geber, which is
| | | | beside Eloth, on the
| | | | shore of the Red Sea,
| | | | in the land of Edom’
| | | | (1 Kings ix. 25). In
| | | | the neighbourhood of
| | | | ʾAkabah.
| | | |
=GAASH=, Mount |Josh. xxiv. |_Not |-- |In ‘Mount Ephraim,’
of (R.V. | 30; Judg. | identified_ | | near ‘Timnath-serah.’
Mountain of) | ii. 9; 2 | | | In Samuel and
| Sam. xxiii. | | | Chronicles rendered
| 30; 1 Chr. | | | ‘Brooks of Gaash.’
| xi. 32 | | |
| | | |
=GABA= |Josh. xviii. |_Jebʾa_ |-- |_See_ Geba (1).
| 24; Ezra ii. | | |
| 26; Neh. | | |
| vii. 30 | | |
| | | |
=GABDES= |1 Esdr. v. 20 |_Not |-- |
| | identified_ | |
| | | |
=GAD=, River of |2 Sam. xxiv. 5|_Wâdy Môjib_ |-- |Same as ‘River Arnon.’
| | | |
=GAD=, Tribe of |Josh. xiii. | | |‘The eastern parts of
| 24; 9 Ant. | | | the country beyond
| viii. | | | Jordan, which belonged
| | | | to the Reubenites
| | | | and Gadites’ (9 Ant.
| | | | viii.).
| | | |
=GALAAD= |Judith i. 8; |_Gilead_ |-- |The Greek form of
| xv. 5; 1 | | | ‘Gilead.’
| Macc. v. 9, | | |
| 17, 20, 25, | | |
| 27, 36, 45, | | |
| 55 | | |
| | | |
=GALEED= |Gen. xxxi. | |-- |_See_ Jegar-sahadutha.
| 47, 48 | | |
| | | |
=GALGALA= |1 Macc. ix. 2 | |-- |Probably Gilgal (2
| | | | Kings ii. 1). Now
| | | | Jiljilia, which see.
| | | |
=GALILEE= |Josh. xx. 7; | |-- |The region north of
| xxi. 32; 1 | | | Samaria, including the
| Kings ix. | | | Plain of Esdraelon and
| 11; 2 Kings | | | mountains north of it
| xv. 29; 1 | | | (Cf. 3 Wars, iii. 4).
| Chr. vi. 76; | | |
| Isa. ix. 1; | | |
| 1 Macc. v. | | |
| 15, 17, 20, | | |
| 23, 55; x. | | |
| 30; xi. 63; | | |
| xii. 47, 49; | | |
| Tob. i. 2; | | |
| Judith i. 8; | | |
| xv. 5; Matt. | | |
| ii. 22, etc. | | |
| | | |
=GALLIM= |1 Sam. xxv. |_Not |14 |Possibly ‘Beit Jâla,’
| 44; Isaiah | identified_ | | near Bethlehem.
| x. 30 | | | (_Mem._ III. 20; Sh.
| | | | XVII.)
| | | |
=GAREB=, The |Jer. xxxi. 39 |_Not |-- |Somewhere in the
Hill | | identified_ | | vicinity of Jerusalem.
| | | |
=GARIZIM= |2 Macc. v. |_Jebel et Tôr_|-- |Gerizim.
| 23; vi. 2 | | |
| | | |
=GATH= |Josh. xi. 22; |_Tell es Sâfi_|13 |Five Roman miles from
| 1 Sam. v. 8; | | | Eleutheropolis (Beit
| vi. 17; vii. | | | Jibrîn), on the road
| 14; xvii. 4, | | | to Diospolis (Lydda),
| 23, 52; xxi. | | | according to the
| 10; xxvii. | | | Onomasticon. This
| 2, 3, 4, 11; | | | points to the fortress
| 2 Sam. i. | | | of ‘Tell es Sâfi.’
| 20; xv. 18; | | | (_Mem._ II. 440; Sh.
| xxi. 20, 22; | | | XVI.)
| 1 Kings ii. | | |
| 39-41; 2 | | |
| Kings xii. | | |
| 17; 1 Chr. | | |
| vii. 21; | | |
| viii. 13; | | |
| xviii. 1; | | |
| xx. 6, 8; 2 | | |
| Chr. xi. 8; | | |
| xxvi. 6; Am. | | |
| vi. 2; Micah | | |
| i. 10 | | |
| | | |
=GATH-HEPHER=, |Josh. xix. |_el Mesh-hed_ | 6 |Now the village
or | 13; 2 Kings | | | ‘el Mesh-hed,’ 3
=GITTAH-HEPHER=| xiv. 25 | | | miles north-east of
| | | | Nazareth, containing
| | | | the tomb of Jonah
| | | | (Neby Yûnas). (_Mem._
| | | | I. 365; Sh. VI.)
| | | |
=GATH-RIMMON= |Josh. xxi. 25 |_Not |-- |A town of Manasseh. In
(1) | | identified_ | | the parallel passage
| | | | in 1 Chr. vi. 70, the
| | | | town is called Bileam.
| | | |
=GATH-RIMMON= |Josh. xix. |_Not |-- |Signifying ‘lofty
(2) | 45; xxi. 24; | identified_ | | Gath.’ Named between
| 1 Chr. vi. 69| | | ‘Beneberak’ (Ibn
| | | | Ibrâk) (Sh. XIII.)
| | | | and Mejarkon (Nahr
| | | | el ʾAujeh), north
| | | | of Jaffa. Probably
| | | | in the immediate
| | | | neighbourhood; but
| | | | no trace has been
| | | | discovered.
| | | |
=GAZA= |Gen. x. 19; |_Ghŭzzeh_ |13 |Now the city Ghuzzeh,
| Josh. x. 41; | | | in Philistia. (_Mem._
| xi. 22; xv. | | | III. 248; Sh. XIX.)
| 47; Jud. i. | | |
| 18; vi. 4; | | |
| xvi. 1, 21; | | |
| 1 Sam. vi. | | |
| 17; 2 Kings | | |
| xviii. 8; 1 | | |
| Chr. vii. | | |
| 28; Jer. | | |
| xlvii. 1, 5; | | |
| Am. i. 6, 7; | | |
| Zeph. ii. 4; | | |
| Zech. ix. | | |
| 5; 1 Macc. | | |
| xi. 61, 62; | | |
| xiii. 43; | | |
| Acts viii. 26| | |
| | | |
=GAZARA= |1 Macc. ix. |_Tell Jezar_ |-- |Gazera (1 Macc. iv. 15;
| 52; xiii. | | | vii. 35). Tell Jezar.
| 53; xiv. 7, | | | _See_ Gezer.
| 34; xv. 28, | | |
| 35; xvi. 1, | | |
| 19, 21; 2 | | |
| Macc. x. 32 | | |
| | | |
=GEBA= (1), |Josh. xxi. |_Jebʾa_ |14 |Now the village Jebʾa
=GABA= or | 17; 1 Sam. | | | of Benjamin, near
=GIBEAH= | xiii. 3; 2 | | | Michmash. (_Mem._ III.
| Sam. v. 25; | | | 94; Sh. XVII.)
| 1 Kings xv. | | |
| 22; 2 Kings | | |
| xxiii. 8; 1 | | |
| Chr. vi. 60; | | |
| viii. 6; 2 | | |
| Chr. xvi. | | |
| 6; Neh. xi. | | |
| 31; xii. 29; | | |
| Isa. x. 29; | | |
| Zech. xiv. 10| | |
| | | |
=GEBA= (2) |Judith iii. 10|_Jebʾa_ |10 |Now Jebʾa, a village
| | | | north of Samaria.
| | | | (_Mem._ II. 155, 185;
| | | | Sh. XI.)
| | | |
=GEBAL= |Josh. xiii. |_Jebeil_ |-- |Now the ruined town
| 5; 1 Kings | | | Jebeil, on the coast,
| v. 18; Ps. | | | about midway between
| lxxxiii. 7; | | | Beirût and Tripolis.
| Ezek. xxvii. | | |
| 9 | | |
| | | |
=GEBIM= |Isa. x. 31 |_Not |-- |North of Jerusalem.
| | identified_ | |
| | | |
=GEDER= |Joshua xii. 13|_Not |-- |Named with Debir and
| | identified_ | | Hormah, in the south
| | | | somewhere, (?) the
| | | | Gedor of Simeon (1
| | | | Chr. iv. 39), or Gedor
| | | | (1).
| | | |
=GEDERAH=, of |Josh. xv. 36 |_Kh. Jedîreh_*|14 |The Gedor of the
Judah | | | | Onomasticon, 10 miles
| | | | from Eleutheropolis
| | | | (Beit Jibrin), on the
| | | | road to Diospolis, now
| | | | the ruin Jedîreh, 9
| | | | miles south of Ludd.
| | | | (_Mem._ III. 43; Sh.
| | | | XVII.)--Conder.
| | | |
=GEDERAH=, of |1 Chr. xii. 4 |_Jedîreh_* |14 |The village Jedîreh,
Benjamin | | | | north of Jerusalem.
| | | | (_Mem._ III. 9; Sh.
| | | | XVII.)--Conder.
| | | |
=GEDEROTH= |Josh. xv. |_Katrah_ (?) |13 |Apparently the present
| 41; 2 Chr. | | | village Katrah, also
| xxviii. 18 | | | called Cedron (1 Macc.
| | | | xv. 39). (_Mem._ III.;
| | | | Sh. XVI.)--Warren.
| | | |
=GEDEROTHAIM= |Josh. xv. 36 | |-- |According to LXX. was
| | | | part of Gederah.
| | | |
=GEDOR= (1) |Josh. xv. 58 |_Kh. Jedûr_ |14 |The present village
| | | | Jedûr, in the Hebron
| | | | mountains, 4 miles
| | | | north of Hŭlhûl.
| | | | (_Mem._ III. 313; Sh.
| | | | XXI.)
| | | |
=GEDOR= (2) |1 Chr. iv. 39 |_Not |-- |Apparently not the same
| | identified_ | | as (1); but somewhere
| | | | in the south of Judah
| | | | in Simeon.
| | | |
=GEDOR= (3) |1 Chr. xii. 7 |_Not |-- |If belonging to
| | identified_ | | Benjamin, probably
| | | | Jedîreh. _See_ Gederah
| | | | of Benjamin.
| | | |
=GEHENNA= | | | |_See_ Hinnom--Valley of.
| | | |
=GELILOTH= |Josh. xviii. |_Not |-- |On the south boundary
| 17 | identified_ | | of Benjamin, thought
| | | | to be a corruption of
| | | | Gilgal.
| | | |
=GENNESAR=, |Josh. xiii. |_Bahr | 6 |Now called Bahr
Water of | Ant. 5, 7; 1 | Tŭbarîya_ | | Tŭbarîya. _See_
| Macc. xi. 67 | | | Chinnereth, Sea of.
| | | |
=GEON= |Eccles. xxiv. | |-- |One of the four rivers
| 27 | | | of Eden, Gihon.
| | | |
=GERAR= |Gen. x. 19; |_Kh. Umm |13 |Now the ruin ‘Umm
| xx. 1; xxvi. | Jerrâr_ | | Jerrâr,’ 6 miles south
| 6, 17, 20, | | | of Gaza. ‘A very
| 26; 2 Chr. | | | ancient city south of
| xiv. 13, 14 | | | Gaza.’ Jos. i. Ant.
| | | | 12, 1. (_Mem._ III.
| | | | 389; Sh. XXIII.)
| | | |
=GERIZIM=, Mount|Deut. xi. 29; |_Jebel et Tôr_|10 |Now called et Tôr, on
| xxvii. 12; | | | the south side of
| Josh. viii. | | | the valley, in which
| 33; Judg. | | | Nablus (Shechem) is
| ix. 7 | | | situated. (_Mem._ II.
| | | | 148, 149; Sh. XI.)
| | | |
=GESEM=, The |Judith i. 9 |_Goshen_ |-- |The Greek form of the
Land of | | | | name Goshen.
| | | |
=GESHUR= |Deut. iii. | |-- |Part of Bashan,
| 14; Josh. | | | north-east corner of.
| xii. 5; | | |
| xiii. 2, | | |
| 13; 1 Sam. | | |
| xxvii. 8; 2 | | |
| Sam. iii. 3; | | |
| xiii. 37, | | |
| 38; xiv. 23, | | |
| 32; xv. 8; 1 | | |
| Chr. ii. 23; | | |
| iii. 2 | | |
| | | |
=GEZER=, or |Josh. x. 33; |_Tell Jezar_ |13 |Now the important
=GAZER= | xii. 12; | | | site Tell Jezar, 4
(R.V. =GEZER=) | xvi. 3, 10; | | | miles west of Emmaus
| xxi. 21; 1 | | | (Nicopolis). (_Mem._
| Chr. vi. 67; | | | II. 428-432; Sh.
| vii. 28; xx. | | | XVI.)--Clermont-
| 4; Judg. i. | | | Ganneau.
| 29; 1 Kings | | |
| ix. 15, 16, | | |
| 17; 2 Sam. | | |
| v. 25; 1 | | |
| Chr. xiv. | | |
| 16; (Gazer) | | |
| | | |
=GIAH= |2 Sam. ii. 24 |_Not |-- |‘The Ravine’ near the
| | identified_ | | hill Ammah, by the way
| | | | of the wilderness of
| | | | Gibeon.
| | | |
=GIBBETHON= |Josh. xix. |_Kibbieh_* |10 |Probably the present
| 44; xxi. 23; | | | village ‘Kibbieh,’
| 1 Kings xv. | | | west of Timnathah
| 27; xvi. 15, | | | (Tibneh). (_Mem._ II.
| 17 | | | 297; Sh. XIV.)--Conder.
| | | |
=GIBEAH=, of |Josh. xv. 57 |_Jebʾa_* |14 |Named with Cain and
Judah (1) | | | | Timnah. Now the
| | | | village ‘Jeba,’
| | | | 8 miles west of
| | | | Bethlehem. (_Mem._
| | | | III. 25; Sh.
| | | | XVII.)--Conder.
| | | |
=GIBEAH= |Josh. xviii. |_Jebîʾa_ (?)* |14 |A town of Benjamin.
(2) (R.V. | 28 | | | Now the ruin Jebîa,
=GIBEATH=) | | | | between Jerusalem and
| | | | Emmaus and north of
| | | | Kirjath. (_Mem._ III.
| | | | 43; Sh. XVII.)--Conder.
| | | |
=GIBEAH=, of |Judg. xix. |_Not |-- |Apparently Gibeah lay
Benjamin or of | 12-16; xx. | identified_ | | somewhere between
Saul | 4-43; 1 Sam. | | | Geba and Jerusalem.
| x. 26; xi. | | | Mentioned as a
| 4; xiii. 2, | | | separate place from
| 15; xiv. 2, | | | Geba in Isa. x. 29.
| 16; xv. 34; | | | Placed by Robinson at
| xxii. 6; | | | Tell el Fûl, 2½ miles
| xxiii. 19; | | | north of Jerusalem.
| xxvi. 1; 2 | | | Capt. Conder regards
| Sam. xxi. 6; | | | it as a district name.
| xxiii. 29; 1 | | |
| Chr. xi. 31; | | |
| 2 Chr. xiii. | | |
| 2; Isa. x. | | |
| 29; Hos. v. | | |
| 8; ix. 9; x. | | |
| 9 | | |
| | | |
=GIBEAH= in the |Judg. xx. 31 | | |Either Geba (1), or
Field | | | | Gibeah.
| | | |
=GIBEAH=, of |Josh. xxiv. 33|_ʾAwertah_ |10 |The burial-place
Phinehas | | (?)* | | of Eleazar. The
| | | | traditional site is
| | | | the village ʾAwertah,
| | | | south of Shechem
| | | | (Nâblus), in which
| | | | are shown the tombs
| | | | of Eleazar, Phinehas,
| | | | and Ithamar. Jîbia,
| | | | 7 miles west of
| | | | Tell Asûr, has been
| | | | suggested. (_Mem._ II.
| | | | 288; Sh. XIV.)
| | | |
=GIBEAH-HA- |1 Sam. x. 5; | |-- |A garrison of the
ELOHIM= | xiii. 3 | | | Philistines = Geba,
| | | | also a Philistine
| | | | garrison.--Conder’s
| | | | _Handbook to the
| | | | Bible_.
| | | |
=GIBEON= |Josh. ix. 3, |_el Jîb_ |-- |Now the village of
| 17; x. 1-12, | | | ‘el Jîb,’ north of
| 41; xi. 19; | | | Jerusalem. (_Mem._
| xviii. 25; | | | III. 94; Sh. XVII.)
| xxi. 17; 2 | | |
| Sam. ii. 12, | | |
| 13, 16, 24; | | |
| iii. 30; | | |
| xx. 8; 1 | | |
| Kings iii. | | |
| 4, 5; ix. | | |
| 2; 1 Chr. | | |
| viii. 29; | | |
| ix. 35; xiv. | | |
| 16; xvi. | | |
| 39; xxi. | | |
| 29; 2 Chr. | | |
| i. 3, 13; | | |
| Neh. iii. 7; | | |
| vii. 25; Is. | | |
| xxviii. 21; | | |
| Jer. xxviii. | | |
| 1; xli. 12, | | |
| 16 | | |
| | | |
=GIDOM= |Judg. xx. 45 |_Not |-- |Somewhere on the
| | identified_ | | outskirts of Gibeah.
| | | |
=GIHON=, River |Gen. ii. 13 | |-- |The second river of
| | | | Paradise--Geon.
| | | |
=GIHON= |1 Kings i. | |-- |= Siloam? The Upper
| 33, 38; | | | spring of the waters
| 45; 2 Chr. | | | of Gihon (2 Chr.
| xxxii. 30; | | | xxxii. 30). ‘ʾAin
| xxxiii. 14 | | | Umm ed Dêraj,’
| | | | ‘the Virgin’s
| | | | fountain.’ _See_ En
| | | | Rogel.--Conder’s
| | | | _Handbook to the
| | | | Bible_, p. 335.
| | | |
| | | |‘Gihon, from the
| | | | fourteenth century,
| | | | has been supposed to
| | | | be the Birket Mamilla,
| | | | and the Lower Gihon
| | | | to be the Birket es
| | | | Sultan; but the latter
| | | | reservoir was only
| | | | constructed in the
| | | | twelfth century.’--See
| | | | _Jerusalem_ vol., p.
| | | | 94.
| | | |
=GILBOA=, Mount |1 Sam. |_Jelbôn_ |10 |The name survives in
| xxviii. 4; | | | ‘Jelbôn,’ a village
| xxxi. 1, 8; | | | on the high range
| 2 Sam. i. 6, | | | east of the plain of
| 21; xxi. 12; | | | Esdraelon. (_Mem._ II.
| 1 Chr. x. 1, | | | 84; Sh. IX.)
| 8 | | |
| | | |
=GILEAD=, Mount |Gen. xxxi. | |-- |The mountainous region
(1) | 21, 25; | | | east of the Jordan;
| xxxvii. 25; | | | bounded on the north
| Num. xxxii. | | | by Bashan, on the east
| 1, 26, 29, | | | by the Arabian desert,
| 39, 40; iii. | | | and on the south by
| 10, 16; iv. | | | Moab and Ammon = The
| Deut. ii. | | | land of Gilead.
| 36; 43; | | |
| xxxiv. 1; | | |
| Josh. xii. | | |
| 2, 5; xiii. | | |
| 11, 25, 31; | | |
| xvii. 5, 6; | | |
| xx. 8; xxi. | | |
| 38; xxii. | | |
| 9, 13, 15, | | |
| 32; Judg. v. | | |
| 17; x. 4, | | |
| 8, 17, 18; | | |
| xi. 5-11, | | |
| 29; xii. | | |
| 4-7; xx. 1; | | |
| Sam. xiii. | | |
| 7; 2 Sam. | | |
| ii. 9; xvii. | | |
| 26; xxiv. | | |
| 6; 1 Kings | | |
| iv. 13, 19; | | |
| xvii. 1; | | |
| xxii. 3; 2 | | |
| Kings x. 33; | | |
| xv. 29; 1 | | |
| Chr. ii. 22; | | |
| v. 9, 10, | | |
| 16; vi. 80; | | |
| xxvi. 31; | | |
| xxvii. 21; | | |
| Ps. lx. 7; | | |
| cviii. 8; | | |
| Cant. iv. | | |
| 1; vi. 5; | | |
| Jer. viii. | | |
| 22; xxii. 6; | | |
| xlvi. 11; l. | | |
| 19; Ezek. | | |
| xlvii. 18; | | |
| Hos. vi. 8; | | |
| xii. 11; | | |
| Amos i. 3, | | |
| 13; Obad. | | |
| 19; Micah | | |
| vii. 14; | | |
| Zech. x. 10 | | |
| | | |
=GILEAD=, Mount |Judg. vii. 3 | |-- |Probably Gilboa
(2) | | | |
| | | |
=GILGAL= (1) |Deut. xi. 30; |_Jiljûlia_ |14 |Now the ruin Jiljûlia,
| Josh. iv. | | | 3 miles east of
| 19; v. 9, | | | Jericho. (_Mem._ III.
| 10; ix. 6; | | | 173, 191; Sh. XVIII.)
| x. 6, 15, | | |
| 43; xiv. | | |
| 6; xv. 7; | | |
| Judg. ii. | | |
| 1; iii. 19; | | |
| 1 Sam. vii. | | |
| 16; x. 8; | | |
| xi. 14, 15; | | |
| xiii. 4-15; | | |
| xv. 12, 21, | | |
| 33; 2 Sam. | | |
| xix. 15, 40; | | |
| Neh. xii. | | |
| 29; Hos. iv. | | |
| 15; ix. 15; | | |
| xii. 11; Am. | | |
| iv. 4; v. 5; | | |
| Micah vi. 5 | | |
| | | |
=GILGAL= (2) |2 Kings ii. |_Jîljîlia_ |10 |Now the village
| 1; iv. 38 | | | Jîljîlia, north of
| | | | Bethel. (_Mem._ II.
| | | | 290; Sh. XIV.)
| | | |
=GILGAL= of The |Josh. xii. 23 |_Jiljûlieh_ |10 |Probably Jiljûlieh, in
Goim (R.V. | | | | the plain of Sharon,
Goiim) | | | | north of Antipatris.
| | | | (_Mem._ II. 288; Sh.
| | | | XIV.)
| | | |
=GILOH= |Josh. xv. 51; |_Kh. Jâla_ |14 |Probably the ruin
| 2 Sam. xv. | (?)* | | Jâla, in the Hebron
| 12; xxiii. 34| | | mountains, 3 miles
| | | | north of Hŭlhûl.
| | | | (_Mem._ III. 313;
| | | | XXI.)--Conder.
| | | |
=GIMZO= |2 Chr. |_Jîmzu_ |10 |Now the village Jîmzu,
| xxviii. 18 | | | east of Lydda. (_Mem._
| | | | II. 297; Sh. XIV.)
| | | |
=GITTAH-HEPHER= |Josh. xix. 13 |_el Mesh-hed_ |-- |_See_ Gath-hepher.
(R.V. | | | |
=GATH-HEPHER=) | | | |
| | | |
=GITTAIM= |2 Sam. iv. 3; |_Not |-- |In the neighbourhood of
| Neh. xi. 33 | identified_ | | Beeroth.
| | | |
=GOATH= (R.V. |Jer. xxxi. 39 |_Not |-- |A place in the
=GOAH=) | | identified_ | | neighbourhood of
| | | | Jerusalem.
=GOB= |2 Sam. xxi. |_Not |-- |
| 18, 19 | identified_ | |
| | | |
=GOLAN= |Josh. xx. 8; |_Sahem el | 7 |One of the three
| xxi. 27; | Jaulân_ (?) | | cities of refuge east
| Deut. iv. | | | of the Jordan, in
| 43; 1 Chr. | | | Manasseh. The name
| vi. 71 | | | has been recovered
| | | | by G. Schumacher, in
| | | | the Jaulân. A village
| | | | exists called Sahem el
| | | | Jaulân, occupying part
| | | | of an extensive area
| | | | of ruins.
| | | |
=GOMORRAH= |Gen. x. 19; |_Not |-- |At the north end of
(or Amorah), | xiii. 10; | identified_ | | the Dead Sea there
=GOMORRHA= (2 | xiv. 2-11; | | | is a valley called
Esd. ii. 2) | xviii. 20; | | | ‘Wâdy ʾAmr,’ a word
| xix. 24-28; | | | containing the
| Deut. xxix. | | | radicals of the name
| 23; xxxii. | | | Gomorrah.
| 32; Isa. i. | | |
| 9, 10; xiii. | | |
| 19; Jer. | | |
| xxiii. 14; | | |
| xlix. 18; l. | | |
| 40; Am. iv. | | |
| 11; Zeph. | | |
| ii. 9; Matt. | | |
| x. 15; Mark | | |
| vi. 11; Rom. | | |
| ix. 29; 2 | | |
| Peter ii. 6; | | |
| Jude 7 | | |
| | | |
=GORTYNA= |1 Macc. xv. 23| |-- |A city of Crete
| | | |
=GOSHEN= (1) |Gen. xlv. | | |Near the eastern side
=GESEM= | 10; xlvi. | | | of the ancient Delta.
(Judith i. 9) | 28, 29, 34; | | |
| xlvii. 1, 4, | | |
| 6, 27; l. 8; | | |
| Exod. viii. | | |
| 22; ix. 26 | | |
| | | |
=GOSHEN=, The |Josh. x. 41; |_Not |-- |In Southern Palestine.
land of | xi. 16 | identified_ | |
| | | |
=GOSHEN= (3) |Josh. xv. 51 |_Not |-- |A town of Judah in the
| | identified_ | | mountains.
| | | |
=GOZAN= |2 Kings xvii. | | |A district in
| 6; xviii. | | | Mesopotamia, watered
| 11; xix. | | | by the River Khabour.
| 12; 1 Chr. | | |
| v. 26; Is. | | |
| xxxvii. 12 | | |
| | | |
=GREECE= |Zech. ix. 13; | |-- |
| 1 Macc. i. | | |
| 1; Acts xx. 2| | |
| | | |
=GRECIA= |Dan. viii. | |-- |
| 21; x. 20; | | |
| xi. 2 | | |
| | | |
=GUDGODAH= |Deut. x. 7 |_Not |-- |A variation of the name
| | identified_ | | Hor-hagidgad.
| | | |
=GUR=, The |2 Kings ix. |_Not |-- |‘By Ibleam.’ Perhaps
going up to | 27; Jos. 9 | identified_ | | Kh. Kâra, west of
(R.V. The | Ant. vi. 4 | | | Yebla.--Conder. _See_
ascent of) | | | | Ibleam.
| | | |
=GUR-BAAL= |2 Chr. xxvi. 7|_Not |-- |A place or district
| | identified_ | | lying between
| | | | Palestine and the
| | | | Arabian Peninsula.
| | | |
=HABOR= |2 Kings xvii. |_Khabour_ |-- |Called ‘Aborrhas’ by
| 6; xviii. | | | Strabo (XVI. 1, 27);
| 11; 1 Chr. | | | ‘Aburas’ by Isidore of
| v. 26 | | | Charax (p. 4); ‘Abora’
| | | | by Zosimus (III. 12),
| | | | and ‘Charboras’ by
| | | | Pliny and Ptolemy
| | | | (v. 18). Now called
| | | | the river Khabour,
| | | | an affluent of the
| | | | Euphrates.
| | | |
=HACHILAH=, |1 Sam. xxiii. |_Dhahret el |14 |Apparently the ridge
Hill of | 19; xxvi. 1, | Kolah_ (?)* | | called ‘el Kolah,’ in
| 3 | | | the wilderness east of
| | | | ‘Ziph.’ (_Mem._ III.
| | | | 313; Sh. XXI.)--Conder.
| | | |
=HADADRIMMON= |Zech. xii. 11 |_Rummâneh_ |10 |A place in the valley
| | | | of Megiddo. Jerome
| | | | (Comm. in Zach.) makes
| | | | this = Maximianopolis,
| | | | or the present village
| | | | Rummâneh, west of the
| | | | plain of ‘Esdraelon.’
| | | | (_Mem._ II. 68; Sh.
| | | | VIII.)
| | | |
=HADASHAH= |Josh. xv. 37 |_Ebdis_, |13 |Mentioned between
| | _ʾEddis_* | | ‘Zenan’ and
| | | | ‘Migdal-gad.’ Probably
| | | | the village ‘Ebdis,’
| | | | or ‘ʾEddis,’ 6½
| | | | miles to the east of
| | | | Migdal-gad. It is
| | | | spoken of by Eusebius
| | | | as lying near Taphna.
| | | | (_Mem._ II. 409; Sh.
| | | | XVI.)
| | | |
=HADATTAH= |Josh. xv. 25 |_Not |-- |One of the towns
(R.V. =HAZOR- | | identified_ | | of Judah in the
HADATTAH=) | | | | south. Should read
| | | | ‘Hazor-hadattah.’
| | | | _See_ Hazor-hadattah.
| | | |
=HADID= |Ezra ii. 33; |_Hadîtheh_ |10 |Named with ‘Lod’ and
| Neh. vii. | | | ‘Ono.’ In the time
| 37; xi. 34 | | | of Eusebius (Onom.
| | | | ‘Adithaim’), a town
| | | | called ‘Aditha,’ or
| | | | ‘Adatha,’ existed to
| | | | the east of Lydda
| | | | (Diospolis). ‘Adida
| | | | in Sephela’ (1 Macc.
| | | | xii. 38) is probably
| | | | the same place. Now
| | | | the present village
| | | | ‘Hadîtheh,’ 3 miles to
| | | | the east of Lydda =
| | | | the Adithaim of Joshua
| | | | xv. 36. (_Mem._ II.
| | | | 322; Sh. XIV.)
| | | |
=HADRACH=, The |Zech. ix. 1 |_Not |-- |Somewhere in Syria.
land of | | identified_ | |
| | | |
=HAI= (R.V. |Gen. xii. 8; | |-- |_See_ ‘Ai.’
=AI=) | xiii. 3 | | |
| | | |
=HALAH= |2 Kings |_Not |-- |A different place to
| xviii. 11; 1 | identified_ | | that of Gen. x. 11;
| Chr. v. 26 | | | thought to be the
| | | | ‘Chalcitis’ of Ptolemy
| | | | (v. 18). The modern
| | | | name, ‘Gla,’ applies
| | | | to a huge mound on the
| | | | Upper Khabour, above
| | | | its junction with the
| | | | Jerujer. (Layard,
| | | | _Nin. & Bab._ 312.)
| | | |
=HALAK=, Mount |Josh. xi. 17; |_Not |-- |In the neighbourhood
| xii. 7 | identified_ | | of ‘Mount Seir,’
| | | | signifying ‘the bare
| | | | mountain’ (margin
| | | | R.V.).
| | | |
=HALHUL= |Josh. xv. 58 |_Hŭlhûl_ |14 |The present village
| | | | still called ‘Hŭlhûl,’
| | | | north of Hebron and
| | | | near to Beth-zur, with
| | | | which it is named.
| | | | (_Mem._ III. 305; Sh.
| | | | XXI.)
| | | |
=HALI= |Josh. xix. 25 |_Kh. ʾAlia_ | 6 |A town on the boundary
| | (?)* | | of Asher, named
| | | | between ‘Helkath’ and
| | | | ‘Beten.’ The name Kh.
| | | | ʾAlia, some 13 miles
| | | | south-east of Akka is
| | | | suggestive of this
| | | | site, and may probably
| | | | be in the district of
| | | | ‘Aloth,’ which see.
| | | | (_Mem._ I. 170; Sh.
| | | | III.)
| | | |
=HALICARNASSUS= |1 Macc. xv. |_Budrûm_ |-- |A city in ‘Caria,’
| 23; Jo. Ant. | | | celebrated for its
| xiv. 10, 23 | | | harbour and the
| | | | strength of its
| | | | fortifications,
| | | | the birth-place of
| | | | Herodotus and of the
| | | | later historian,
| | | | Dionysius. A plan of
| | | | the site is given in
| | | | Ross, _Reisen auf
| | | | den Griech Inseln_
| | | | (vol. iv., p. 30).
| | | | The modern name is
| | | | ‘Budrûm.’
| | | |
=HAM= |Gen. xiv. 5 |_Not |-- |Thought to be another
| | identified_ | | form of Ammon. The
| | | | Targums of Onkelos and
| | | | Pseudo Jonathan have
| | | | Hemta. Schwartz (217)
| | | | suggests ‘Humeitat,’
| | | | or ‘Hammet Animah,’ 1
| | | | mile north of ‘Rabba.’
| | | |
=HAMATH= |Num. xiii. |_Hama_ |-- |The present city Hama,
| 21; xxxiv. | | | in the valley of the
| 8; Josh. | | | Orontes, north of
| xiii. 5; | | | Damascus. Hemath (Amos
| Judg. iii. | | | vi. 14).
| 3; 2 Sam. | | |
| viii. 9; 1 | | |
| Kings viii. | | |
| 65; 2 Kings | | |
| xiv. 25, 28; | | |
| xvii. 24, | | |
| 30; xviii. | | |
| 34; xix. 13; | | |
| xxiii. 33; | | |
| xxv. 21; 1 | | |
| Chr. xiii. | | |
| 5; xviii. | | |
| 3, 9; 2 | | |
| Chr. vii. | | |
| 8; viii. | | |
| 4; Isa. x. | | |
| 9; xi. 11; | | |
| xxxvi. 19; | | |
| xxxvii. 13; | | |
| Jer. xxxix. | | |
| 5; xlix. 23; | | |
| lii. 9, 27; | | |
| Ezek. xlvii. | | |
| 16, 17, 20; | | |
| xlviii. 1; | | |
| Amos vi. 2, | | |
| 14; Zech. | | |
| ix. 2 | | |
| | | |
=HAMATH ZOBAH= |2 Chr. viii. 3|_Not |-- |Perhaps same as last.
| | identified_ | | North of Damascus.
| | | |
=HAMMATH= |Josh. xix. 35 |_Hŭmmâm | 6 |One of the fortified
| | Ibrahim | | cities of Naphtali.
| | Basha_ | | The site was probably
| | | | at the Emmaus of
| | | | Josephus, so famed for
| | | | its hot springs and
| | | | baths (xviii. Ant.
| | | | 2, 3; 4 Wars i. 3).
| | | | Now Hammâm Tabariya.
| | | | (_Mem._ I. 379; Sh.
| | | | VI.)
| | | |
=HAMMON= |Josh. xix. 28 |_ʾAin Hamûl_ | 6 |The present ruin Hima,
| | | | 11 miles south-east
| | | | of Tyre, ‘Kh. Umm el
| | | | ʾAmud,’ on the coast
| | | | 10 miles south of
| | | | Tyre, and ‘ʾAin Hamûl’
| | | | (Schwartz), a little
| | | | farther south, have
| | | | each been proposed.
| | | | (_Mem._ I. 51 & 176;
| | | | Sh. III., and Conder’s
| | | | _Handbook to the
| | | | Bible_.)
| | | |
=HAMMON= |1 Chr. vi. 76 | |-- |Allotted out of the
| | | | tribe of Naphtali to
| | | | the Levites. Possibly
| | | | the same as Hammath.
| | | |
=HAMMOTH-DOR= |Josh. xxi. 32 | |-- |Same as Hammon (1 Chr.
| | | | vi. 76), and Hammath
| | | | of Josh. xix. 35.
| | | |
=HAMON-GOG=, |Ezek. xxxix. | |-- |
The Valley of | 11, 15 | | |
| | | |
=HAMONAH= |Ezek. xxxix. |_Not |-- |
| 16 | identified_ | |
| | | |
=HANANEEL=, The |Neh. iii. 1; |_Not |-- |A tower which formed
Tower of (R.V. | xii. 39; | identified_ | | part of the wall of
=HANANEL=) | Jer. xxxi. | | | Jerusalem, between
| 38; Zech. | | | the Sheepgate and the
| xiv. 10 | | | Fishgate.
| | | |
=HANES= |Isa. xxx. 4 |_Tell |-- |A place in Egypt, (?)
| | Defenneh_ | | Tahpanes, which see.
| | | |
=HANNATHON= |Josh. xix. 14 |_Kefr ʾAnân_* | 6 |The present village
| | | | ‘Kefr ʾAnân’ of
| | | | Zebulon. (_Mem._ I.
| | | | 205; Sh. IV.)--Conder.
| | | |
=HAPHRAIM= |Josh. xix. 19 |_Kh. |10 |Probably the present
(R.V. | | Farrîyeh_* | | ruin Farrîyeh, west
=HAPHARA-IM=) | | | | of the plain of
| | | | Esdraelon. The site of
| | | | Affarea, 6 miles north
| | | | of Legio--‘Lejjun.’
| | | | Onomasticon, _s.v._
| | | | Haphraim. A city of
| | | | Issachar. (_Mem._ II.
| | | | 58; Sh. VIII.)--Conder.
| | | |
=HARA= |1 Chr. v. 26 |_Harran_ |-- |= Haran, which see.
| | | |
=HARADAH= |Num. xxxiii. |_Not |-- |One of the camping
| 24, 25 | identified_ | | stations of the
| | | | Israelites in the
| | | | desert.
| | | |
=HARAN= |Gen. xi. 31, |_Harran_ |-- |Probably the small
| 32; xii. 4, | | | village now called
| 5; xxvii. | | | ‘Harran,’ between the
| 43; xxviii. | | | Euphrates and the
| 10; xxix. 4; | | | Khabour.
| 2 Kings xix. | | |
| 12; Isa. | | |
| xxxvii. 12; | | |
| Ezek. xxvii. | | |
| 23 | | |
| | | |
=HARETH=, The |1 Sam. xxii. |_Kharâs_ (?)* |14 |The LXX. reads ‘city.’
Forest of | 5; Ant. vi. | | | Very probably the
(R.V. =HERETH=)| 12, 4 | | | name is preserved
| | | | in that of Kharâs,
| | | | a village in the
| | | | Hebron mountains,
| | | | between ‘Hŭlhul’ and
| | | | ‘Adullam,’ where dense
| | | | patches of scrub
| | | | abound. _Mem._ III.
| | | | 305; Sh. XXI.--Conder.
| | | |
=HAROD=, The |Judg. vii. 1 |_ʾAin Jalûd_ |10 |ʾAin Jalûd, below
Well of | | (?) | | Jezreel (Zerʾîn), is
| | | | the generally-accepted
| | | | spring. Capt. Conder
| | | | suggests ‘ʾAin el
| | | | Jemʾâin (the spring
| | | | of two troops), near
| | | | Beth-shean. (_Mem._
| | | | II. 79, 81; Sh. IX.)
| | | |
=HAROSHETH= of |Judg. iv. 2, |_el | 6 |The village ‘el
the Gentiles | 13, 16 | Harathîyeh_ | | Harathiyeh,’ in the
| | (?) | | narrow strait, on
| | | | the north bank of
| | | | the River Kishon,
| | | | which separates Lower
| | | | Galilee from Carmel,
| | | | is generally looked
| | | | to now as the ancient
| | | | site; whilst others
| | | | maintain that it was
| | | | situated in the Upper
| | | | Jordan Valley, near
| | | | the Lake Huleh--Merom.
| | | | (_Mem._ I. 270; Sh. V.)
| | | |
=HARUPH=, |1 Chr. xii. |_Kh. Kharûf_ |-- |Appears to have been in
=HARIPH= | 5; Neh. vii. | (?)* | | the south of Judah.
| 24 | | | Probably Kh. Kharûf,
| | | | south of ʾAid el Mâ.
| | | | (_Mem._ III. 313; Sh.
| | | | XXI.)--Conder.
| | | |
=HASHMONAH= |Num. xxxiii. |_Not |-- |One of the camping
| 29, 30 | identified_ | | stations of the
| | | | Israelites, somewhere
| | | | near ‘Mount Hôr.’
| | | |
=HAURAN= |Ezek. xlvii. |_Hauran_ | 7 |A province of
| 16, 18 | | | Palestine, bounded
| | | | on the west by
| | | | Gaulanitis, on the
| | | | north by the wild
| | | | and rocky district
| | | | of Trachonitis, on
| | | | the east by the
| | | | mountainous region of
| | | | Batanæa, and on the
| | | | south by the great
| | | | plain of Moab. (_See_
| | | | Porter’s _Damascus_,
| | | | vol. ii.)
| | | |
=HAVILAH= |Gen. ii. 11; |_Not |-- |
| x. 7, 29; | identified_ | |
| xxv. 18; 1 | | |
| Sam. xv. 7; | | |
| 1 Chr. i. 9, | | |
| 23 | | |
| | | |
=HAVOTH-JAIR= |Num. xxxii. |_Not |-- |‘Small towns of Jair,’
| 41; Deut. | identified_ | | in the country of
| iii. 14; | | | Argob.
| Josh. xiii. | | |
| 30; 1 Chr. | | |
| ii. 23; 1 | | |
| Kings iv. 13 | | |
| | | |
=HAZAR-ADDAR= |Num. xxxiv. 4 |_Not |-- |= Addar. On the
| | identified_ | | southern boundary of
| | | | Judah, between Kadesh
| | | | Barnea and Azmon.
| | | |
=HAZAR-ENAN= |Num. xxxiv. |_Not |-- |The northern limit of
| 9, 10; Ezek. | identified_ | | the Promised Land.
| xlvii. 17; | | | ‘Kuryetein,’ a village
| xlviii. i. 1 | | | north-east of Damascus
| | | | some 60 miles, has
| | | | been proposed by
| | | | Porter. (_Damascus_ i.
| | | | 252; ii. 358.) Conder
| | | | suggests ʾAin el ʾAsi
| | | | (see _Heth & Moab_).
| | | |
=HAZAR-GADDAH= |Josh. xv. 27 |_Not |-- |One of the towns in the
| | identified_ | | south of Judah, named
| | | | between ‘Moladah’ and
| | | | ‘Heshmon.’
| | | |
=HAZAR-HATTICON=|Ezek. xlvii. |_Not |-- |On the boundary of
(R.V. =HAZER- | 16 | identified_ | | Hauran. Said to mean
HATTICON=) | | | | ‘middle village’ (R.V.)
| | | |
=HAZAR-SHUAL= |Josh. xv. 28; |_Not |-- |One of the towns in the
| xix. 3; 1 | identified_ | | south of Judah, named
| Chr. iv. 28; | | | next to Beer-sheba.
| Neh. xi. 27 | | |
| | | |
=HAZAR-SUSAH= |Josh. xix. 5; |_Susîn_ (?) |-- |One of the southern
| 1 Chr. iv. 31| | | cities of Judah
| | | | allotted to Simeon. Or
| | | | ‘Hazar-susim,’ ‘the
| | | | village of horses.’
| | | | Probably the ruin
| | | | Susîn, on the caravan
| | | | road to Egypt, some
| | | | 10 miles south of
| | | | Gaza.--Tristram.
| | | |
=HAZARMAVETH= |Gen. x. 26; 1 |_Hadramâut_ |-- |Now Hadramaut, a
| Chr. i. 20 | | | district in south-east
| | | | of Arabia.
| | | |
=HAZERIM= |Deut. ii. 23 | |-- |‘The villages’ of the
| | | | Avims.
| | | |
=HAZEROTH= |Num. xi. 35; |_ʾAin |-- |The next camping
| xii. 16; | Hudherah_ (?)| | station of the
| xxxiii. 17; | | | Israelites after
| Deut. i. 1 | | | ‘Kibroth-hattaavah.’
| | | | ‘Ain Hudherah,’ some
| | | | two or three days’
| | | | journey north-east
| | | | from Sinai, was
| | | | first suggested
| | | | by Burckhardt.--
| | | | Burckhardt, p. 495;
| | | | Robinson, vol. i., p.
| | | | 223.
| | | |
=HAZEZON-TAMAR= |Gen. xiv. 7; |_ʾAin Jidy_ |14 |The original name
(R.V. | 2 Chron. xx. | | | of En-gedi (2 Chr.
=HAZAZON- | 2 | | | xx. 2). The name is
TAMAR=) | | | | probably preserved
| | | | in that of the tract
| | | | called ‘Hasâseh’
| | | | (pebbles), near ‘ʾAin
| | | | Jîdy.’ Compare Ziz,
| | | | cliff of.
| | | |
=HAZOR= (1) |Josh. xi. 1, |_Jebel | 6 |Named between ‘Ramah’
| 10-13; xii. | Hadîreh_ (?) | | and ‘Kedesh’ (Kades)
| 19; xix. 36; | | | as one of the fenced
| Jud. iv. 2, | | | cities of Naphtali.
| 17; 1 Sam. | | | The name survives
| xii. 9; 1 | | | in Jebel Hadîreh,
| Kings ix. | | | near Kades in Upper
| 15; 2 Kings | | | Galilee. (_Mem._ I.
| xv. 29; Jer. | | | 204; Sh. IV.)
| xlix. 28, | | |
| 30, 33 | | |
| | | |
=HAZOR= (2) |Josh. xv. 23 |_Not |-- |One of the uttermost
| | identified_ | | cities of Judah in the
| | | | south; also called
| | | | Kerioth Hezron in
| | | | Josh. xv. 25.
| | | |
=HAZOR-HADATTAH=|Josh. xv. 25 |_Not |-- |One of the towns
(3) | | identified_ | | of Judah in the
| | | | south; should read
| | | | ‘Hazor-hadattah’
| | | | (R.V.), and this
| | | | reading is given by
| | | | Eusebius and Jerome,
| | | | who speak (Onom.
| | | | ‘Asor’) of ‘New Hazor’
| | | | as being situated to
| | | | the east of and near
| | | | Ascalon.
| | | |
=HAZOR= (4) |Neh. xi. 33; |_Kh. Hazzûr_ |14 |Now the heap of ruins
| 1 Kings ix. | | | ‘Hazzûr,’ north of
| 15 | | | Jerusalem, near
| | | | Beit Hanîna, and in
| | | | Benjamin. (_Mem._ III.
| | | | 43; Sh. XVII.)
| | | |
=HEBRON= |Gen. xiii. |_el Khŭlîl_ |14 |One of the oldest
| 18; xxiii. | | | cities of Palestine,
| 2, 19; xxxv. | | | built seven years
| 27; xxxvii. | | | before ‘Zoan’ in
| 14; Num. | | | Egypt (Num. xiii.
| xiii. 22; | | | 22). Originally named
| Jos. x. 3, | | | Kirjath-arba (Judg. i.
| 5, 23, 36, | | | 10). The burial-place
| 39; xi. 21; | | | of Abraham, Sarah,
| xii. 10; | | | Isaac, and Jacob. One
| xiv. 54; | | | of the six cities of
| xx. 7; xxi. | | | refuge. Now a large
| 13-15; xv. | | | town called ‘el
| 13, 11, 13; | | | Khulîl.’ (_Mem._ III.
| Judg. i. 10, | | | 305; Sh. XXI.)
| 20; xvi. | | |
| 3; 1 Sam. | | |
| xxx. 31; 2 | | |
| Sam. ii. 1, | | |
| 3, 11, 32; | | |
| iii. 2, 32; | | |
| iv. 1-12; | | |
| v. 1-13; | | |
| xv. 7-10; 1 | | |
| Kings ii. | | |
| 11; 1 Chr. | | |
| ii. 42, 43; | | |
| iii. 1, 4; | | |
| vi. 2, 55, | | |
| 57; xi. 1, | | |
| 3; xii. 23, | | |
| 38; xxix. | | |
| 27; 2 Chr. | | |
| xi. 10; 1 | | |
| Macc. v. 65 | | |
| | | |
=HEBRON= (R.V. |Josh. xix. 28 | |-- |_See_ ‘Abdon,’ a town
=EBRON=) | | | | of Asher, which is
| | | | thought to represent
| | | | this place.
| | | |
=HELAM= |2 Sam. x. 16, |_Not |-- |Between the Jordan and
| 17 | identified_ | | Euphrates, thought
| | | | to be identical with
| | | | Alamatha, a town named
| | | | by Ptolemy, on the
| | | | west of the Euphrates,
| | | | near Nicephorium.
| | | |
=HELBAH= |Judg. i. 31 |_Not | 6 |A town in Asher.
| | identified_ | |
| | | |
=HELBON= |Ezek. xxvii. |_Helbôn_ | 3 |Now represented by
| 18 | | | the village still
| | | | called Helbôn, in the
| | | | mountains, 13 miles
| | | | north of Damascus.
| | | | (_Five years in
| | | | Damascus_, II.
| | | | 330.--Porter.)
| | | |
=HELEPH= |Josh. xix. 33 |_Beit Lîf_ | 6 |On the boundary of
| | | | Naphtali. Van de Velde
| | | | proposed Beit Lîf.
| | | | (_Mem._ I. 204; Sh.
| | | | IV.)
| | | |
=HELKATH= |Josh. xix. |_Yerka_ (?) | 6 |Mentioned next to
| 25; xxi. 31 | | | ‘Hali’ (Kh. ʾAlia) in
| | | | Josh. xix. 25, and to
| | | | ‘Rehob’ in xxi. 31. On
| | | | the boundary of Asher.
| | | | The village ‘Yerka,’
| | | | 8½ miles to east of
| | | | ʾAkka, proposed by Van
| | | | de Velde. In 1 Chr.
| | | | vi. 75, it is rendered
| | | | ‘Hukok.’
| | | |
=HELKATH- |2 Sam. ii. 16 |_Wâdy el |14 |Possibly ‘Wâdy el
HAZZURIM= | | ʾAskar_ (?)* | | ʾAskar,’ between
| | | | ‘Gederah’ (Jedîreh)
| | | | and ‘Gibeon’ (el Jîb).
| | | | (_Mem._ III.; Sh.
| | | | XVII.)--C. F. T. Drake.
| | | |
=HEMATH= |Amos vi. 14 |_Hama_ |-- |= Hamath.
| | | |
=HENA= |2 Kings |_ʾAnah_ (?) |-- |Probably ‘Anah,’ near
| xviii. 34; 2 | | | ‘Mosaib,’ on the
| Kings xix. | | | Euphrates.
| 13; Is. | | |
| xxxvii. 13 | | |
| | | |
=HEPHER= |Josh. xii. |_Not |-- |Named between ‘Tappuah’
| 17; 1 Kings | identified_ | | and Aphek in Josh.
| iv. 10 | | | xii. 17, and between
| | | | Socoh (Shuweikeh),
| | | | and Dôr (Tanturah), 1
| | | | Kings iv. 10. Not Gath
| | | | Hepher.
| | | |
=HERES=, Mount |Judg. i. 35 | |-- |Mentioned with Aijalon.
| | | | Some 5 miles to the
| | | | north of the valley
| | | | of Aijalon is the
| | | | village of ‘Khŭrbetha
| | | | ibn Hârith,’ 5 miles
| | | | due east of this place
| | | | is a very prominent
| | | | and commanding hill
| | | | top called ‘Batn
| | | | Harâsheh.’ Further
| | | | north lie Hâris and
| | | | Kefr Hâris (Timnath
| | | | Heres). All these
| | | | names may be connected
| | | | with that of Mount
| | | | Heres.
| | | |
=HERMON=, Mount |Deut. iii. 8, |_Jebel esh |-- |Now called ‘Jebel esh
| 9; iv. 48; | Sheikh_ | | Sheikh,’ or ‘Jebel eth
| Josh. xi. | _Jebel eth | | Thelj,’ the highest
| 3, 17; xii. | Thelj_ | | mountain in the
| 1-5; xiii. | | | Anti-Lebanon range
| 5, 11; 1 | | | (9,166 feet). _Special
| Chr. v. 23; | | | Papers_ Vol., p.
| Ps. xlii. 6; | | | 115-116.
| lxxxix. 12; | | |
| cxxxiii. 3; | | |
| Song. iv. | | |
| 8; Eccles. | | |
| xxiv. 13 | | |
| | | |
=HESHBON= |Num. xxi. |_Hesbân_ |15 |The capital of Sihon
| 25-34; | | | King of the Amorites,
| xxxii. 3, | | | rebuilt by the
| 37; Deut. i. | | | children of Reuben
| 4; ii. 24, | | | (Num. xxxii. 37).
| 30; iii. 2, | | | Near or on the border
| 6; iv. 46; | | | between Reuben and
| xxix. 7; | | | Dan. In Joshua xiii.
| Josh. ix. | | | 17, as belonging to
| 10; xii. 2, | | | Reuben, and in Joshua
| 5; xiii. 10, | | | xxi. 39 and 1 Chr. vi.
| 17, 21, 26, | | | 81, mentioned as given
| 27; xxi. | | | ‘out of the tribe of
| 39; Judg. | | | Gad.’ Now the ruined
| xi. 19, 26; | | | city ‘Hesbân.’ For
| 1 Chr. vi. | | | details see _Quarterly
| 81; Neh. ix. | | | Statement_, 1882, p.
| 22; Cant. | | | 8, _Eastern Survey_.
| vii. 4; Is. | | |
| xv. 4; xvi. | | |
| 8, 9; Jer. | | |
| xlviii. 2, | | |
| 34, 45; | | |
| xlix. 3 | | |
| | | |
=HESHMON= |Josh. xv. 27 |_Not |-- |Named with
| | identified_ | | ‘Beer-sheba,’
| | | | ‘Moladah,’ etc.
| | | | Apparently to the
| | | | south; thought to be
| | | | another form of the
| | | | name ‘Azmon,’ which
| | | | see.
| | | |
=HETHLON= |Ezek. xlvii. | |-- |Supposed to be the
| 15; xlviii. 1| | | Pass at the northern
| | | | end of Mount Lebanon,
| | | | from the Mediterranean
| | | | to the great Plain
| | | | of Hamath--and would
| | | | thus be identical
| | | | with ‘the entrance
| | | | to Hamath.’ (_Five
| | | | Years in Damascus_ II.
| | | | 356.)--Porter.
| | | |
=HEZRON= |Josh. xv. 3 |_J. Hadîreh_ |20 |Named as being on the
| | (?)* | | southern boundary of
| | | | Judah and between
| | | | ‘Kadesh-barnea’
| | | | and ‘Adar.’ ‘Jebel
| | | | Hadîreh,’ south of
| | | | Bîr-sheba, proposed
| | | | by Capt. Conder.
| | | | (_See Handbook to the
| | | | Bible_, p. 257.) The
| | | | position agrees, and
| | | | the Arabic name is
| | | | radically the same as
| | | | the Hebrew.
| | | |
=HIDDEKEL= |Gen. ii. 14; |_River Tigris_|-- |One of the rivers of
| Dan. x. 14 | | | Eden, ‘which goeth
| | | | toward the east of
| | | | Assyria.’ The old name
| | | | of the Tigris, which
| | | | is now called Dijlah.
| | | |
=HILEN= |1 Chron. vi. |_Not |-- |In Joshua xv. 51, =
| 58 | identified_ | | Holon, which see.
| | | |
=HINNOM=, |Josh. xv. 8; |_Wâdy er |14 |Now ‘Wâdy er
Valley of | xviii. 16; 2 | Rabâbeh_ (?) | | Rabâbeh’--the valley
| Kings xxiii. | | | surrounding Jerusalem
| 10; 2 Chr. | | | on the west and
| xxviii. 3; | | | south.--_Jerusalem_
| xxxiii. 6; | | | Vol. p. 94. Some have
| Neh. xi. 30; | | | thought the Kedron
| Jer. vii. | | | Valley to be intended.
| 31, 32; xix. | | |
| 2, 6; xxxii. | | |
| 35 | | |
| | | |
=HOBAH= |Gen. xiv. 15 |_Jôbar_ (?) | 3 |The Jews of Damascus
| | or _Buzreh_ | | have a tradition
| | (?) | | that the village of
| | | | ‘Jôbar,’ immediately
| | | | north of Damascus,
| | | | is the ‘Hobah’ of
| | | | Scripture. Again, the
| | | | Moslems have another
| | | | tradition that Abraham
| | | | took refuge in a cleft
| | | | of the rock in Buzreh,
| | | | which is farther
| | | | north and to the west
| | | | of Jobâr.--Porter’s
| | | | _Handbook for Syria
| | | | and Palestine_, pp.
| | | | 491, 492. The Hebrew
| | | | word is said to mean
| | | | ‘hiding.’
| | | |
=HOLON= (1), or |Josh. xv. 51; |_Beit ʾAlâm_ |14 |A town in the mountains
=HILEN= | xxi. 15; 1 | (?)* | | of Judah, named
| Chron. vi. 58| | | between ‘Goshen’ (not
| | | | recovered) and Giloh
| | | | (Kh. Jala.) In the
| | | | same group as ‘Dannah’
| | | | (Idhna)--very probably
| | | | the ruins ‘Beit
| | | | ʾAlâm’ (Sheet 14.)
| | | | (_Mem._ III. 313; Sh.
| | | | XXI.)--Conder.
| | | |
=HOLON= (2) |Jer. xlviii. |_Not |-- |In the ‘plain
| 21 | identified_ | | country,’ or Mishor
| | | | in Moab. Perhaps
| | | | ‘ʾAleiyan.’--Conder.
| | | |
=HOR=, Mount (1)|Numb. xxxiv. |_Not |-- |One of the landmarks on
| 7, 8 | identified_ | | the northern limits
| | | | of the boundary of
| | | | the Promised Land.
| | | | Supposed to be the
| | | | Lebanon Range. (_See_
| | | | Conder’s _Heth &
| | | | Moab_.)
| | | |
=HOR=, Mount (2)|Num. xx. |_Jebel Neby |28 |The next camping
| 22-27; xxi. | Harûn_ | | station of the
| 4; xxxiii. | | | Israelites after
| 37, 41; | | | ‘Kadesh’ (Num. xx.
| Deut. xxxii. | | | 22); ‘By the coast
| 50 | | | of the land of Edom’
| | | | (Num. xx. 23); or ‘in
| | | | the edge’ (xxxiii.
| | | | 37.) ‘And Aaron went
| | | | up into “Mount Hor”
| | | | and died there’
| | | | (Num. xxxiii. 38.) A
| | | | double-peaked mountain
| | | | on the eastern side of
| | | | the ‘Wâdy ʾArabah,’
| | | | and about midway
| | | | between ‘the Salt
| | | | Sea’ and the Gulf of
| | | | ʾAkabah. The northern
| | | | peak is the highest
| | | | one, on which is the
| | | | traditional tomb of
| | | | Aaron. A great open
| | | | plain extends from the
| | | | western base into the
| | | | ‘Wâdy ʾArabah’--and
| | | | has an area of about
| | | | 20 square miles. At a
| | | | higher elevation of
| | | | 1,000 feet above this
| | | | plain and between the
| | | | eastern base of the
| | | | mountain and Petra,
| | | | is the open piece of
| | | | rolling land--called
| | | | ‘the Plain of Aaron,’
| | | | which is encircled by
| | | | the surrounding peaks
| | | | and over 2 square
| | | | miles in extent. There
| | | | is also a little
| | | | plateau at the fork
| | | | of the two peaks
| | | | (now called Jebel
| | | | Neby Harûn.)--For
| | | | various descriptions
| | | | _see_ the records of
| | | | Burckhardt, Irby and
| | | | Mangles, Stephens,
| | | | Wilson, Robinson,
| | | | Martineau, Stanley.
| | | | (Professor Hull’s
| | | | _Mt. Seir_, also the
| | | | _Quarterly Statement_,
| | | | October, 1884.)--Major
| | | | Kitchener.
| | | |
=HOREB=, Mount |Exod. iii. |_Not |-- |‘The Mount of
| 1; xvii. 6; | identified_ | | God’--another name
| xxxiii. 6; | | | for Sinai and the
| Deut. i. 2, | | | wilderness. ‘The rock
| 6, 19; iv. | | | in Horeb’ = Massah and
| 10, 15; v. | | | Meribah. Exodus xvii.
| 2; ix. 8; | | | 7. The name in Hebrew
| xviii. 16; | | | means ‘desert’ or
| xxix. 1; 1 | | | ‘dry,’ and may apply
| Kings viii. | | | to the whole Sinaitic
| 9; xix. 8; | | | block.
| 2 Chr. v. | | |
| 10; Ps. cvi. | | |
| 19; Mal. iv. | | |
| 4; Eccles. | | |
| xlviii. 7 | | |
| | | |
=HOREM= |Josh. xix. 38 |_Kh. Hârah_* | 6 |Named between Migdal-el
| | | | (Mujeidel) and
| | | | Beth-anath (Ainitha)
| | | | in Naphtali. Now the
| | | | ruin Hârah, between
| | | | these two places.
| | | | (_Mem._ I. 205; Sh.
| | | | IV.)--Conder.
| | | |
=HOR-HAGIDGAD= |Num. xxxiii. |_Not |-- |One of the camping
(R.V. =HOR- | 32, 33 | identified_ | | stations of the
HAGGIDGAD=) | | | | Israelites in the
| | | | desert.
| | | |
=HORMAH= or |Num. xiv. |_Not |-- |Also called ‘Zephath’
=ZEPHATH= | 45; xxi. 3; | identified_ | | (Judg. i. 17.) Named
| Deut. i. | | | between Geder (not
| 44; Josh. | | | recovered) and Arad
| xii. 14; xv. | | | (Tell ʾArâd) Josh.
| 30; xix. 4; | | | xii. 14. Also between
| Judg. 1, 17; | | | Chesil or Bethul (Beit
| 1 Sam. xxx. | | | Âûla) Sheet 14, and
| 30; 1 Chron. | | | Ziklag: xv. 30; xix.
| iv. 30 | | | 4. Robinson (II. 181)
| | | | identifies the pass
| | | | es Sŭfa with Zephath
| | | | (Sheet 21.) S’baita,
| | | | south of Beersheba
| | | | (Sheet 20) is also
| | | | proposed and has many
| | | | supporters. The name
| | | | Kh. Hôra (Sheet 13)
| | | | east of Beersheba,
| | | | exists at a very
| | | | ancient site. (_Mem._
| | | | III. 396; Sh. XXIV.)
| | | | S’beita does not
| | | | represent the Hebrew,
| | | | which is correctly
| | | | rendered by Sŭfa, as
| | | | Robinson proposes.
| | | |
=HORONAIM= |Is. xv. 5; |_Not |-- |Possibly ‘Wâdy Ghûeir’
| Jer. xlviii. | identified_ | | (with ancient road).
| 3, 5, 34 | | | The Hebrew and Arabic
| | | | have the same meaning,
| | | | with a slight change
| | | | of guttural. (Conder,
| | | | _Heth and Moab_, 403)
| | | | situated between ‘Beth
| | | | Jesimoth’ (Sheet 14)
| | | | and ‘Luhith’ (Sheet
| | | | 15.)
| | | |
=HOSAH= |Josh. xix. 29 |_ʾEzzîyat el | 6 |A city of Asher.
| | Fôka_ or _et | | Probably the present
| | Tahta_ (?)* | | ruins now called
| | | | ‘ʾEzzîyat el Fôka,’
| | | | south of Tyre. (_Mem._
| | | | I. 48, 51; Sh.
| | | | I.)--Conder.
| | | |
=HUKKOK= |Josh. xix. 34 |_Yakûk_ | 6 |Named next to ‘Aznoth
| | | | Tabor’ as being on the
| | | | boundary of Naphtali.
| | | | The present village
| | | | Yakûk. (_Mem._ I. 365;
| | | | Sh. VI.)
| | | |
=HUKOK= |1 Chr. vi. 75 |_Not |-- |Apparently another
| | identified_ | | name for ‘Helkath’ of
| | | | Joshua xix. 25
| | | |
=HUMTAH= |Josh. xv. 54 |_Not |-- |In the mountains of
| | identified_ | | Judah, and mentioned
| | | | next to Hebron.
| | | |
=HYDASPES=, |Judith i. 6 |_Not |-- |Possibly the Choaspes
River | | identified_ | | of Susiana. Not the
| | | | Hydaspes of India
| | | | (Smith’s _Bible
| | | | Dictionary_.)
| | | |
=IBLEAM= |Josh. xvii. |_Yebla_ | 6 |A city of Manasseh in
| 11; Judg. i. | | | Issachar. Probably
| 27; 2 Kings | | | Yebla, north-west of
| ix. 27 | | | Beth-shean. _See_ also
| | | | Bileam.
| | | |
=IDALAH= |Josh. xix. 15 |_el Huwarah_ | 6 |One of the cities of
| | (?)* | | Zebulon. Its later
| | | | name was Hirii
| | | | (_Talmud Jer_,
| | | | _Megillah_ I.) Now
| | | | identified with ‘el
| | | | Huwarah,’ south of
| | | | Bethlehem in Zebulon.
| | | | (_See_ Conder’s
| | | | _Handbook_, p. 268,
| | | | and _Mem._ I. 288; Sh.
| | | | V.)
| | | |
=IDUMEA= (R.V. |Is. xxxiv. |See _Edom_ |-- |The Greek form of the
=EDOM=) | 5, 6; Ezek. | | | name Edom.
| xxxv. 15; | | |
| xxxvi. 5; 1 | | |
| Macc. iv. | | |
| 15, 29, 61; | | |
| v. 3; vi. | | |
| 31; 2 Macc. | | |
| xii. 32; | | |
| Mark iii. 8 | | |
| | | |
=IIM= (1) (R.V. |Num. xxxiii. |See |-- |A contracted form of
=IYIM=) | 45 | _Ije-abarim_ | | the name Ije-abarim,
| | | | which see.
| | | |
=IIM= (2) |Josh. xv. 29 |_Not |-- |Mentioned with
| | identified_ | | ‘Beer-sheba,’ and
| | | | ‘Chesil,’ or ‘Bethul,’
| | | | somewhere in the south
| | | | of Judah. The Peshito
| | | | Syriac version has
| | | | Elin.
| | | |
=IJE-ABARIM= |Num. xxi. 11; |_Not |-- |Between ‘Oboth’ and
(R.V. | xxxiii. 44 | identified_ | | ‘the valley of Zared,’
=IYE-ABARIM=) | | | | ‘wilderness which is
| | | | before Moab.’ One of
| | | | the camping stations
| | | | of the Israelites.
| | | |
=IJON= |1 Kings xv. |_el Khîam_ | 6 |A town belonging to the
| 20; 2 Kings | (?)* | | tribe of Naphtali,
| xv. 29; 2 | | | ‘el Khîam,’ in the
| Chr. xvi. 4 | | | Merj ʾAyûn, north of
| | | | Banias (Conder). Tell
| | | | Dibbin, in the same
| | | | district, has also
| | | | been proposed. (_Mem._
| | | | I. 88; Sh. II.)
| | | |
=IMMER= |Ezra ii. 59; |_Not |-- |One of the places from
| Neh. vii. 61 | identified_ | | which some of the
| | | | captivity returned,
| | | | who could not prove
| | | | their pedigree.
| | | |
=INDIA= |1 Esd. iii. 2 | -- |-- |
| | | |
=IR-NAHASH= |1 Chron. iv. |_Deir |13 |Of Judah. Possibly
(R.V. ‘The | 12 | Nakhkhâs_ | | ‘Deir Nakhkhâs,’ near
City of | | (?)* | | Beit Jibrîn. (_Mem._
Nahash.’) | | | | III.; Sh. XX.)--Conder.
| | | |
=IRON= |Josh. xix. 38 |_Yârûn_ | 6 |Named between
| | | | ‘Migdal-el’ and
| | | | ‘En-hazor’ in
| | | | Naphtali. Now the
| | | | village Yârûn. (_Mem._
| | | | I. 204; Sh. IV.)
| | | |
=IRPEEL= |Josh xviii. 27|_Râfât_* |14 |Mentioned between
| | | | ‘Rekem’ and ‘Taralah,’
| | | | of Benjamin, both
| | | | places unknown.
| | | | Probably the village
| | | | ‘Rafât,’ near Gibeon,
| | | | (_Mem._ III. 154; Sh.
| | | | XVII.)--Conder.
| | | |
=IR-SHEMESH= |Josh. xix. 41 |_ʾAin Shems_ |14 |Identical with Beth
| | | | Shemesh, which see.
| | | |
=ISHTOB= |2 Sam. x. 6, 8| -- |-- |R.V. ‘Men of Tob.’
| | | | _See_ Tob.
| | | |
=ISSACHAR=, |Gen. xxx. 18; | |-- |‘The fourth lot came
Tribe of | xxxv. 23; | | | out for _Issachar_.
| xlvi. 13; | | | And their border
| xlix. 14; | | | was unto _Jezreel_,
| Exod. i. 3; | | | and _Chesulloth_
| Num. i. 8, | | | and _Shunem_;
| 28, 29; ii. | | | and _Haphraim_,
| 5; vii. 18; | | | and _Shion_, and
| x. 15; xiii. | | | _Anaharath_; and
| 7; xxvi. 23, | | | _Rabbith_, and
| 25; xxxiv. | | | _Kishion_, and _Ebez_;
| 26; Deut. | | | and _Remeth_, and
| xxvii. 12; | | | _En-gannim_, and
| xxxiii. 18; | | | _En-haddah_, and
| Josh. xvii. | | | _Beth-pazzez_; and
| 10, 11; xix. | | | the border reached
| 17, 23; xxi. | | | to _Tabor_, and
| 6, 28; Judg. | | | _Shahazumah_, and
| v. 15; x. | | | _Beth-shemesh_; and
| 1; 1 Kings | | | the goings out of
| iv. 17; xv. | | | their border were at
| 27; 1 Chron. | | | _Jordan_; sixteen
| ii. 1; vi. | | | cities with their
| 62, 72; vii. | | | villages.’ (Josh.
| 1, 5; xii. | | | xix. 17-23 R.V.)
| 32, 40; | | | ‘_Issachar_ had its
| xxvii. 18; | | | limits in length,
| 2 Chr. xxx. | | | _Mount Carmel_ and the
| 18; Ezek. | | | river, but its limit
| xlviii. 25, | | | in breadth was _Mount
| 26-33; Rev. | | | Tabor_.’ (5 Ant. I.
| vii. 7 | | | 22.)
| | | |
=ITHNAN= |Josh. xv. 23 |_Not |-- |A town in the south
| | identified_ | | of Judah named with
| | | | ‘Kadesh,’ ‘Hazor,’ and
| | | | ‘Ziph.’
| | | |
=ITTAH-KAZIN= |Josh. xix. 13 |_Not |-- |On the boundary of
(R.V. | | identified_ | | Zebulon between
=ETH-KAZIN=) | | | | Gittah-hepher and
| | | | Remmon.
| | | |
=IVAH= or =AVA= |2 Kings xvii. |_Hit_ (?) |-- |Thought to be ‘Hît’ on
(R.V. =IVVAH= | 24; xviii. | | | the Euphrates?
and =AVVA=) | 34; xix. 13; | | |
| Isa. xxxvii. | | |
| 13 | | |
| | | |
=JAAZER= (R.V. |Num. xxi. 32; | |-- |_See_ Jazer.
=JAZER=) | xxxii. 35 | | |
| | | |
=JABBOK=, River |Gen. xxxii. |_Wâdy Zêrka_ |11 |The brook which Jacob
| 22; Num. | | | crossed on his way
| xxi. 24; | | | from ‘Haran.’ Between
| Deut. ii. | | | Gerasa (Jerash)
| 37; iii. 16; | | | and Philadelphia
| Josh. xii. | | | (Amman)--Onomasticon.
| 2; Judg. xi. | | | Now called Wâdy
| 13-22 | | | ez Zêrka, having
| | | | its source at the
| | | | clear and copious
| | | | springs in the valley
| | | | above ‘Ammân,’ then
| | | | sweeping round in
| | | | a north-westerly
| | | | direction to the
| | | | south of Jerash, and
| | | | entering the Jordan
| | | | near ‘Succoth’ and
| | | | ‘Adam.’
| | | |
=JABESH-GILEAD= |Judg. xxi. 8, |_Not |11 |Six Roman miles from
| 14; 1 Sam. | identified_ | | Pella on the road to
| xi. 1-10; | | | Gerasa (Onomasticon.)
| xxxi. 11-13; | | | The name survives in
| 2 Sam. ii. | | | Wâdy el Yâbis, and
| 4, 5; xxi. | | | possibly the ruin ed
| 12; 1 Chr. | | | Deir marks the site.
| x. 11, 12 | | |
| | | |
=JABEZ= |1 Chron. ii. |_Not |-- |‘Deir Abu Kabûs,
| 55 | identified_ | | between Eshtaol and
| | | | Ashnah, has been
| | | | proposed for this
| | | | place.’ (Henderson’s
| | | | _Handbook to
| | | | Students_.) The Arabic
| | | | and Hebrew have,
| | | | however, no connection.
| | | |
=JABNEEL=, or |Josh. xv. 11; |_Yebnah_ |13 |One of the places on
=JABNEH= | 2 Chron. | | | the northern boundary
| xxvi. 6; 1 | | | of Judah. Now the
| Macc. iv. | | | village Yebnah, in
| 15; v. 58; | | | Philistia. The Jamnia
| x. 69; xv. | | | of the 1st Book of
| 40; 2 Macc. | | | Maccabees. (_Mem._ II.
| xii. 8, 9, 40| | | 441; Sh. XVI.)
| | | |
=JABNEEL= |Josh. xix. 33 |_Yemma_* | 6 |Now the ruins Yemma,
| | | | 7 miles south
| | | | of Tiberias in
| | | | Naphtali.--Conder’s
| | | | _Handbook to the
| | | | Bible_, p. 269.
| | | | (_Mem._ I. 365; Sh.
| | | | VI.)
| | | |
=JABNEH= |2 Chr. xxvi. 6| | |_See_ Jabneel.
| | | |
=JAGUR= |Josh. xv. 21 |_Not |-- |Named with other towns
| | identified_ | | towards the coast of
| | | | Edom.
| | | |
=JAHAZ= |Num. xxi. 23; |_Not |10}|
| Deut. ii. | identified_ | }|
| 32; Judg. | | }|Identified as one
| xi. 20; Is. | | }| town in Reuben. ‘Rujm
| xv. 4; Jer. | | }| el Makhsiyeh,’
| xlviii. 34 | | }| north-east of Heshbon,
| | | }| proposed
=JAHAZA= (R.V. |Josh. xiii. 18|_Not |--}| by Capt. Conder.
=JAHAZ=) | | identified_ | }| Eusebius (Onom) says
| | | }| it existed in his
=JAHAZAH= (R.V. |Josh. xxi. |_Not |--}| day between Medeba
=JAHAZ= and | 36; Jer. | identified_ | }| and Dibon; but this
=JAHZAH=) | xlviii. 21 | | }| direction does not
| | | }| appear correct.
=JAHZAH= (R.V. |1 Chr. vi. 78 |_Not |--}|
=JAHZAH=) | | identified_ | }|
| | | |
=JAMNIA= |1 Macc. iv. |_Yebnah_ |13 |_See_ Jabneel (1).
| 15; v. 58; | | | Jamnites 2 Macc. xii.
| x. 69; xv. 40| | | 9. (250 furlongs
| | | | from Jerusalem): the
| | | | distance in a straight
| | | | line is about 29
| | | | English miles.
| | | |
=JANOAH= |2 Kings xv. 29|_Yânûh_ | 6 |Now the village Yânûh,
| | | | in the mountains of
| | | | Naphtali. (_Mem._ I.
| | | | 51, 96; Sh. I.)
| | | |
=JANOHAH= (R.V. |Josh. xvi. 6, |_Yânûn_ |10 |Named between
=JANOAH=) | 7 | | | Taanath-shiloh (Tana)
| | | | and Ataroth (not
| | | | recovered). Now the
| | | | village ‘Yânûn,’ or
| | | | the ruins on the hill
| | | | beyond it, situated
| | | | 7 miles to the east
| | | | of Shechem, and south
| | | | of Taanath-shiloh.
| | | | (_Mem._ II. 387; Sh.
| | | | XV.)
| | | |
=JANUM= (R.V. |Josh. xv. 53 |_Beni Nʾaim_ |14 |Mentioned between
=JANUM=) | | (?) | | ‘Beth-tappuah’
| | | | (Tuffuh) and ‘Eshean’
| | | | (es Simia). The
| | | | present village ‘Beni
| | | | Nʾaim,’ 3 miles east
| | | | of Hebron. (_Mem._
| | | | III. 325; Sh. XXI.)
| | | |
=JAPHIA= |Josh. xix. 12 |_Yâfa_ | 6 |Now the village
| | | | ‘Yâfa,’ south of
| | | | Nazareth, and between
| | | | ‘Chisloth-tabor’ and
| | | | ‘Sarid’ in Zebulon.
| | | | (_Mem._ I. 353; Sh. V.)
| | | |
=JAPHLETI= |Josh. xvi. 3 |_Not |-- |On the south boundary
(R.V. | | identified_ | | of Ephraim. Not a town
=JAPHLETITES=) | | | | name according to the
| | | | R.V.
| | | |
=JAPHO= (R.V. |Josh. xix. 46 |_Yâfa_ | 9 |The seaport town Yâfa
=JOPPA= or | | | | in Dan. _See_ Joppa.
=JAPHA=) | | | | (_Mem._ II. 254, 255,
| | | | 275-278; Sh. XIII.)
| | | |
=JAPHETH= |Judith ii. 25 |_Not |-- |‘Toward the south, over
| | identified_ | | against Arabia.’
| | | |
=JARMUTH= (1) |Josh. x. 3, |_Kh. el |14 |Named between ‘Enam’
| 5, 23; xiii. | Yarmûk_ | | (Kh. Wad ʾAlin) and
| 11; xv. 35; | | | ‘Adullam’ (Aid el Mâ),
| Neh. xi. 29 | | | now Kh. el Yarmûk in
| | | | Judah. (_Mem._ III.
| | | | 128; Sh. XVII.)
| | | |
=JARMUTH= (2) |Josh. xxi. 29 |_Rameh_ (?)* |-- |One of the cities
| | | | allotted to the
| | | | Levites out of the
| | | | tribe of Issachar.
| | | | Compare with Ramoth
| | | | of 1 Chr. vi. 73, and
| | | | Remeth of Josh. xix.
| | | | 21, evidently all
| | | | referring to the one
| | | | place. The village
| | | | ‘er Rameh,’ north of
| | | | Shechem, has been
| | | | proposed. _See_ Ramoth
| | | | and Remeth.--Conder.
| | | |
=JASHUBI-LEHEM= |1 Chr. iv. 22 |_Not |-- |Probably a place near
| | identified_ | | to ‘Chozeba’ (Kh.
| | | | Kueizîba) in Judah.
| | | | According to Jerome
| | | | (Quaest Hebr.) and the
| | | | Targum on Chronicles
| | | | (ed. Wilkins, 29, 30),
| | | | ‘Jashubi-lehem is
| | | | Naomi and Ruth, who
| | | | returned to bread, or
| | | | to Beth-lehem after
| | | | the famine.’
| | | |
=JATTIR= |Josh. xv. 48; |_Kh. ʾAttîr_ |14 |In the mountains named
| xxi. 14; 1 | | | between ‘Shamir’ (Kh.
| Sam. xxx. | | | Somerah) and ‘Socoh’
| 27; 1 Chr. | | | (Shuweikeh). Now Kh.
| vi. 57 | | | ʾAttîr, south of last.
| | | | (_Mem._ III. 408; Sh.
| | | | XXV.)
| | | |
=JAZER= |Num. xxxii. |_Beit Zerʾah_ |15 |In the east of Jordan
| 1, 3, 35; | (?)* | | mentioned with
| Josh. xiii. | | | ‘Heshbon,’ ‘Nimrah,’
| 25; xxi. | | | ‘Jogbehah,’ etc.,
| 39; 2 Sam. | | | ‘their (Gad) coast was
| xxiv. 5; 1 | | | Jazer’ (Josh. xiii.
| Chr. vi. 81; | | | 25), ‘Jazer of Gilead’
| xxvi. 31; | | | (1 Chr. xxvi. 31),
| Is. xvi. | | | ‘The sea of Jazer’
| 8, 9; Jer. | | | (Jer. xlviii. 32).
| xlviii. 32; | | | Jazar (1 Macc. v. 8).
| 1 Macc. v. 8 | | | Jazer, according to
| | | | the Onomasticon, was
| | | | known, and Eusebius
| | | | and Jerome place it 10
| | | | Roman miles west of
| | | | Philadelphia (Amman),
| | | | and 15 from Heshbon.
| | | | Two sites were
| | | | discovered by Seetzen
| | | | in 1806 (Reisen, 1854,
| | | | 397-8), ‘Khurbet Sâr’
| | | | and ‘Sîr’ (the former
| | | | 6½ English miles west
| | | | of Amman and 10½
| | | | English miles north of
| | | | Heshbon): the latter
| | | | (Sâr) 9 English miles
| | | | west of Amman, and 9½
| | | | in a straight line or
| | | | 14 by road north of
| | | | Heshbon. Capt. Conder,
| | | | in the _Eastern
| | | | Survey_, proposes the
| | | | ruin ‘Beit Zerah’ 3
| | | | English miles north of
| | | | Heshbon, and 10 south
| | | | of Amman. (_Heth and
| | | | Moab_ and _Quarterly
| | | | Statement_, p. 9,
| | | | 1882.)
| | | |
=JEARIM=, Mount |Josh. xv. 10 |The ridge |14 |On the northern
| | on which | | boundary of Judah.
| | _Kesla_ | | ‘And the border turned
| | stands (?) | | about from Baalah
| | | | westward unto Mount
| | | | Seir, and passed
| | | | along unto the side
| | | | of Mount Jearim, on
| | | | the north (the same is
| | | | Cheslon)’ the modern
| | | | Kesla 10 miles west of
| | | | Jerusalem.
| | | |
=JEBUSI= or |Josh. xviii. |_Jerusalem_ |-- |The ancient name of
=JEBUS= (R.V. | 16, 28; | | | Jerusalem.
=JEBUSITE=) | Judg. xix. | | |
| 10, 11; 1 | | |
| Chron. xi. | | |
| 4, 5; 2 Sam. | | |
| v. 6, 8 | | |
| | | |
=JEGAR- |Gen. xxxi. 47 | -- |11 |_See_ Mizpeh.
SAHADUTHA=, | | | |
‘The Heap of | | | |
Witness’ in | | | |
Aramaic. | | | |
| | | |
=JEHOSAPHAT=, |Joel iii. 2, |_Wâdy Sitti |14 |The name lingers at
Valley of | 12 | Miriam_ | | Shʾafat, a village
| | | | immediately north of
| | | | Jerusalem. Generally
| | | | recognised as the
| | | | valley between
| | | | Jerusalem and Mount
| | | | of Olives, now called
| | | | ‘Wâdy Sitti Miriam,’
| | | | and ‘Wâdy Farʾaûn.’
| | | |
=JEHUD= |Josh. xix. 45 |_el Yehûdîyeh_| 9 |Now the village ‘el
| | | | Yehûdîyeh,’ 8 miles to
| | | | the east of Joppa, in
| | | | Dan. (_Mem._ II. 258;
| | | | Sh. XIII.)
| | | |
=JEKABZEEL= |Neh. xi. 25 |_Not |-- |= Kabzeel. A town in
| | identified_ | | the extreme south of
| | | | Judah.
| | | |
=JEMNAAN= |Judith ii. 28 | -- |-- |Probably Jabneel or
| | | | Jamnia--which see.
| | | |
=JERICHO= |Num. xxii. 1; |_Erîha_ |14 |‘The city of palm
| xxvi. 3, 63; | | | trees.’ The ancient
| xxxi. 12; | | | site of this town was
| xxxiii. 48, | | | probably at the mounds
| 50; xxxiv. | | | near ‘ʾAin es Sultan.’
| 15; xxxv. 1; | | | (_Mem._ III. 173 and
| xxxvi. 13; | | | 222; Sh. XVIII.)
| Deut. xxxii. | | | Herod’s city was south
| 49; xxxiv. | | | of these mounds and
| 1, 3; Josh. | | | the mediæval town near
| ii. 1, 3; | | | the present village
| iii. 16; iv. | | | Erîha.
| 13, 19; v. | | |
| 10, 13; vi. | | |
| 1, 2, 25, | | |
| 26; vii. 2; | | |
| viii. 2; ix. | | |
| 3; x. 1, 28, | | |
| 30; xii. 9; | | |
| xiii. 32; | | |
| xvi. 1, 7; | | |
| xviii. 12, | | |
| 21; xx. 8; | | |
| xxiv. 11; 2 | | |
| Sam. x. 5; 1 | | |
| Kings xvi. | | |
| 34; 2 Kings | | |
| ii. 4, 5, | | |
| 15, 18; xxv. | | |
| 5; 1 Chron. | | |
| vi. 78; xix. | | |
| 5; 2 Chron. | | |
| xxviii. 15; | | |
| Ezra ii. 34; | | |
| Neh. iii. | | |
| 2; vii. 36; | | |
| Jer. xxxix. | | |
| 5; lii. 8; | | |
| Judith iv. | | |
| 4; Eccles. | | |
| xxiv. 14; 1 | | |
| Macc. ix. | | |
| 50; xvi. 11, | | |
| 14; 2 Macc. | | |
| xii. 15 | | |
| | | |
=JERUEL=, The |2 Chron. xx. |_Not |-- |Near the ascent of
Wilderness of | 16 | identified_ | | Ziz--‘Ye shall find
| | | | them at the end of
| | | | the valley before the
| | | | wilderness of Jeruel.’
| | | | Part of the Jeshimon
| | | | or Wilderness of Judea.
| | | |
=JERUSALEM= |Josh. x. 1-5; |_el Kuds esh |14 |Now called ‘el Kuds esh
| xii. 10; xv. | Sherîf_ | | Sherîf.’ See _Recovery
| 63; xviii. | | | of Jerusalem_, and
| 28; Judg. i. | | | _Jerusalem_ Vol.
| 7, 8, 21; 1 | | |
| Sam. xvii. | | |
| 54; 2 Sam. | | |
| v. 6-14; | | |
| xxiv. 16; 1 | | |
| Kings iii. | | |
| 1; 2 Kings; | | |
| 2 Chron.; | | |
| Ezra; Neh.; | | |
| etc. | | |
| | | |
=JESHANAH= |2 Chron. |_ʾAin Sînia_* |10 |Now the village ‘Ain
| xiii. 19 | | | Sînia,’ in the valley
| | | | north of Bethel,
| | | | as proposed by M.
| | | | Clermont-Ganneau.
| | | |
=JESHIMON= |Num. xxi. 20; |Desert west |14 |The desert west of the
| xxiii. 28; 1 | of Dead Sea | | Dead Sea. The word
| Sam. xxiii. | | | is usually rendered
| 19, 24; | | | ‘solitude.’
| xxvi. 1, 3 | | |
| | | |
=JESHUA= |Neh. xi. 26 |_Kh. Sʾaweh_ |14 |Named in a group of
| | (?)* | | towns with Jekabzeel,
| | | | Moladah, Beer-sheba,
| | | | etc. etc. Probably the
| | | | present ruin ‘Sʾaweh,’
| | | | east of Beersheba.
| | | | (_Mem._ III. 409; Sh.
| | | | XXV.)--Conder.
| | | |
=JETHLAH= (R.V. |Josh. xix. 42 |_Beit Tûl_ |14 |In the group of towns,
=ITHLAH=) | | (??)* | | between ‘Ajalon’ and
| | | | ‘Elon,’ in the tribe
| | | | of Dan. The present
| | | | ruin ‘Beit Tûl’ has
| | | | been proposed by
| | | | Capt. Conder. Shilta,
| | | | 7 miles east of
| | | | Lydda, has also been
| | | | suggested by Mr. C. F.
| | | | T. Drake. (_Mem._ III.
| | | | 43; Sh. XVII.)
| | | |
=JEWRY= |1 Esd. ii. 4; | |-- |Judah or Judea.
| iv. 49; v. | | |
| 7, 8, 57; | | |
| vi. 1; viii. | | |
| 81; ix. 3 | | |
| | | |
=JEZREEL= |Josh. xix. |_Zerʾín_ |10 |On the borders of
| 18; 1 Sam. | | | Issachar next to
| xxix. 1, | | | Chesulloth. Now the
| 11; 2 Sam. | | | modern village Zerʾîn.
| ii. 9; iii. | | | (_Mem._ II. 88; Sh.
| 2; iv. 4; 1 | | | IX.) Wine presses
| Kings iv. | | | were discovered by
| 12; xviii. | | | the Survey Party
| 45, 46; xxi. | | | south-east of the
| 1, 23; 2 | | | village.
| Kings viii. | | |
| 29; ix. 10, | | |
| 15, 17, 30, | | |
| 37; x. 1-11; | | |
| 2 Chr. xxii. | | |
| 6; Hos. i. | | |
| 4-11; ii. 22 | | |
| | | |
=JEZREEL=, |Josh. xvii. | | 6 |Either part of the
Valley of | 16; Judg. | | | Great Plain of
| vi. 33; Hos. | | | Esdraelon, or the open
| 1, 5 | | | valley running east
| | | | from Jezreel to the
| | | | Jordan valley.
| | | |
=JEZREEL= |Josh. xv. 56; |_Not |-- |Between ‘Juttah’
| 1 Sam. xxv. | identified_ | | (‘Yutta’) and Jokdeam
| 43; xxvii. | | | (not known) in Judah.
| 3; xxx. 5; | | |
| 2 Sam. ii. | | |
| 2; iii. 2; 1 | | |
| Chr. iii. 1 | | |
| | | |
=JIPHTAH= |Josh. xv. 43 |_Not |-- |In the low country of
| | identified_ | | Judah. Named between
| | | | ‘Ashan’ (Aseileh?) and
| | | | ‘Ashnah’ (Idhnah?)
| | | |
=JIPHTHAH-EL=, |Josh. xix. |_Not |-- |A valley on the
the Valley | 14, 27 | identified_ | | boundary between
of (R.V. | | | | ‘Asher’ and ‘Zebulon.’
=IPHTAH-EL=) | | | | The discovery of
| | | | Dabbasheth (which see)
| | | | points to the great
| | | | Wâdy el Kurn as the
| | | | valley intended. The
| | | | Hebrew means ‘opened
| | | | by God’ as usually
| | | | rendered. Robinson
| | | | (iii. 107), suggests
| | | | that Jiphtah-el
| | | | was identical with
| | | | Jotapata (Kh. Jefat),
| | | | and that ‘Wâdy
| | | | ʾAbellîn,’ west of it,
| | | | represents the valley,
| | | | but Jefat does not
| | | | represent the Hebrew
| | | | word.
| | | |
=JOGBEHAH= |Num. xxxii. |_el Jubeihat_ |11 |Now the ruins of
| 35; Judg. | | | ‘Jubeihat,’ between
| viii. 11 | | | ‘Amman’ and ‘es Salt.’
| | | | (_Heth & Moab._)
| | | |
=JOKDEAM= |Josh. xv. 56 |_Not |14 |A city in the mountains
| | identified_ | | of Judah named with
| | | | ‘Juttah’ (Yutta)
| | | | ‘Jezreel’ (not known)
| | | | and ‘Zanoah’ (Zanuta)
| | | |
=JOKMEAM= |1 Chr. vi. |_Not |-- |Another name for
| 68; 1 Kings | identified_ | | Kibzaim of Joshua xxi.
| iv. 12 (R.V.)| | | 22.
| | | |
=JOKNEAM=, of |Josh. xii. |_Tell Keimûn_ |10 |The ruins and mound now
Carmel | 22; xix. 11; | | | called Tell Keimûn, on
| xxi. 34 | | | the edge of the plain
| | | | of Esdraelon and south
| | | | of Mount Carmel in
| | | | Zebulon. (_Mem._ II.
| | | | 69; Sh. VIII.)
| | | |
=JOKNEAM= (R.V. |1 Kings iv. 12|_Not |-- |_See_ Jokmeam.
=JOKMEAM=) | | identified_ | |
| | | |
=JOKTHEEL= |Josh. xv. 38 |_Kh. |13 |A town in the lowlands
| | Kutlâneh_ (?)| | of Judah. The ruin
| | | | ‘Kutlâneh,’ 4 miles
| | | | east of Ekron, has
| | | | been proposed by
| | | | Conder (see _Handbook
| | | | to the Bible_).
| | | |
=JOKTHEEL=, |2 Kings xiv. 7|_Petra_ |28 |= Selah. Probably Petra.
| | | |
=JOPPA=, =JAPHO=|Josh. xix. |_Yâfa_ | 9 |The present town Yâfa.
| 46; 2 Chr. | | | (_Mem._ II. 254, 255,
| ii. 16; Ezra | | | 275, 278; Sh. XIII.)
| iii. 7; | | |
| Jonah i. 3 | | |
| | | |
=JOPPE= |1 Esd. v. 55; | | 9 |Yâfa. _See_ the
| 1 Macc. x. | | | preceding.
| 75, 76; xi. | | |
| 6; xii. 33; | | |
| xiii. 11; | | |
| xiv. 5, 34; | | |
| xv. 28, 35; | | |
| 2 Macc. iv. | | |
| 21; xii. 3, 7| | |
| | | |
=JORDAN=, River |Gen. xiii. |_Nahr esh |10,|Now called ‘Nahr esh
| 10; xxxii. | Sherîʾah_ |14 | Sherîʾah’ (‘the
| 10; l. 10; | | | watering-place’).
| Num. xiii. | | |
| 29; xxii. 1; | | |
| xxxii. 5; | | |
| xxxiii. 48; | | |
| Deut. ii. | | |
| 29; iv. 21; | | |
| Jos. iii. | | |
| 1-17; iv. | | |
| 1-23; Judg. | | |
| iii. 28; 1 | | |
| Sam. xiii. | | |
| 7; 2 Sam. | | |
| ii. 29 | | |
| | | |
=JOSEPH’S TOMB= |Gen. l. 25; |_Kabr Yusef_ |10 |The building over the
| Ex. xiii. | | | tomb of the Patriarch
| 19; Josh. | | | Joseph was built at
| xxiv. 32; | | | the expense of Mr. E.
| Acts vii. 16 | | | T. Rogers, H.B.M.’s
| | | | Consul at Damascus,
| | | | January, 1868. Is
| | | | immediately north of
| | | | Jacob’s Well. (_Mem._
| | | | II. 194; Sh. XI.)
| | | |
=JOTBAH= |2 Kings xxi. |_Not |-- |_See_ below.
| 19 | identified_ | |
| | | |
=JOTBATH=, or |Deut. x. 7; |_Not |-- |‘A land of rivers of
=JOTBATHAH= | Num. xxxiii. | identified_ | | waters.’ One of the
(R.V. | 33 | | | camping stations of
=JOTBATHAH=) | | | | the Israelites.
| | | |
=JUDAH=, City of|2 Chron. xxv. | |-- |Cf. 2 Kings xiv. 20
| 28 | | |
| | | |
=JUDAH=, |Judg. i. 16; | |-- |The low country which
Wilderness of | Ps. lxiii. | | | lies to the south and
| (title) | | | east of ‘Tell Arad.’
| | | | (Sh. XIV.)
| | | |
=JUDAH= upon |Josh. xix. 34 |_Not |-- |Thought to be a
Jordan (R.V. | | identified_ | | corruption of some
=JUDAH= at | | | | other name. (Conder’s
Jordan) | | | | _Handbook to the
| | | | Bible_, p. 306, and
| | | | _Quarterly Statement_,
| | | | p. 183, 1883.)
| | | |
=JUDAH=, Tribe |Joshua xv., | -- |-- |‘The lot for the tribe
of | etc. 5 Ant. | | | of _Judah_, according
| i. 22 | | | to their families, was
| | | | unto the border of
| | | | _Edom_, even to the
| | | | wilderness of _Zin_
| | | | southward, at the
| | | | uttermost part of the
| | | | south. And their south
| | | | border was from the
| | | | uttermost part of the
| | | | _Salt Sea_, from the
| | | | bay (or tongue) that
| | | | looked southward; and
| | | | it went out southward
| | | | of the Ascent of
| | | | _Akrabbim_, and passed
| | | | along to _Zin_, and
| | | | went up by the south
| | | | of _Kadesh-barnea_,
| | | | and passed along by
| | | | _Hezron_, and went up
| | | | to _Addar_, and turned
| | | | about to _Karka_;
| | | | and it passed along
| | | | to Azmon, and went
| | | | out at the brook of
| | | | Egypt; and the goings
| | | | out of the border
| | | | were at the sea: this
| | | | shall be your south
| | | | border. And the east
| | | | border was the _Salt
| | | | Sea_, even unto the
| | | | end of _Jordan_. And
| | | | the border of the
| | | | north quarter was from
| | | | the bay (or tongue)
| | | | of the sea at the
| | | | end of _Jordan_; and
| | | | the border went up
| | | | to _Beth-hoglah_,
| | | | and passed along
| | | | by the north of
| | | | _Beth-arabah_; and the
| | | | border went up to the
| | | | stone of _Bohan_, the
| | | | son of _Reuben_; and
| | | | the border went up
| | | | to _Debir_, from the
| | | | _Valley of Achor_, and
| | | | so northward, looking
| | | | toward _Gilgal_, that
| | | | is over against the
| | | | ascent of _Adummim_,
| | | | which is on the south
| | | | side of the river;
| | | | and the border passed
| | | | along to the waters
| | | | of _En-shemesh_, and
| | | | the goings out thereof
| | | | were at _En-rogel_;
| | | | and the border went up
| | | | by the Valley of the
| | | | _Son of Hinnom_, unto
| | | | the side (or shoulder)
| | | | of the Jebusite
| | | | southward (the same is
| | | | Jerusalem); and the
| | | | border went up to the
| | | | top of the mountain
| | | | that lieth before the
| | | | Valley of _Hinnom_
| | | | westward, which is
| | | | at the uttermost
| | | | part of the _Vale of
| | | | Rephaim_ northward;
| | | | and the border was
| | | | drawn from the top of
| | | | the mountain unto the
| | | | fountain of the waters
| | | | of _Nephtoah_, and
| | | | went out to the cities
| | | | of _Mount Ephron_; and
| | | | the border was drawn
| | | | to _Baalah_ (the same
| | | | is Kiriath-jearim);
| | | | and the border turned
| | | | about from _Baalah_
| | | | westward unto _Mount
| | | | Seir_, and passed
| | | | along unto the side
| | | | of _Mount Jearim_, on
| | | | the north (the same is
| | | | _Chesalon_), and went
| | | | down to _Beth-shemesh_
| | | | and passed along by
| | | | _Timnah_; and the
| | | | border went out unto
| | | | the side of _Ekron_
| | | | northward; and the
| | | | border was drawn to
| | | | _Shikkeron_, and
| | | | passed along to _Mount
| | | | Baalah_, and went
| | | | out at _Jabneel_;
| | | | and the goings out
| | | | of the border were
| | | | at the sea. And the
| | | | west border was to
| | | | the Great Sea, and
| | | | the border thereof.
| | | | This is the border of
| | | | the children of Judah
| | | | round about, according
| | | | to their families.’
| | | | (Joshua xv. R.V.)
| | | | ‘_Judah_ was assigned
| | | | by lot the upper part
| | | | of _Judea_, reaching
| | | | as far as _Jerusalem_,
| | | | and its breadth
| | | | extended to the _Lake
| | | | of Sodom_. Now in the
| | | | lot of this tribe
| | | | there were the cities
| | | | of Askelon and Gaza.’
| | | | (5 Ant. i. 22.)
| | | |
=JUTTAH= |Josh. xv. 55; |_Yuttah_ |14 |The present village
| xxi. 16 | | | ‘Yuttah,’ 5 miles
| | | | south of Hebron, in
| | | | the mountains of
| | | | Judah. It is mentioned
| | | | with Maon, Carmel and
| | | | Ziph. (_Mem._ III.
| | | | 310; Sh. XXI.)
| | | |
=KABZEEL= |Josh. xv. |_Not |-- |In the south of Judah,
| 21; 2 Sam. | identified_ | | towards the coast of
| xxiii. 20; 1 | | | Edom. _See_ Jekabzeel.
| Chron. xi. | | |
| 22; Neh. xi. | | |
| 25 | | |
| | | |
=KADES= |Judith i. 9 | |-- |= Kadesh.
| | | |
=KADESH= |Gen. xiv. |_ʾAin Kadîs_ |20 |Also called
| 7; xvi. | (?) | | ‘En-mishpat’ (Gen.
| 14; xx. 1; | | | xiv. 7). The scene of
| Num. xiii. | | | Miriam’s death (Num.
| 26; xx. 1, | | | xxi. 1). A city in
| 14, 16, 22; | | | the uttermost borders
| xxvii. 14; | | | of Judah (Num. xx.
| xxxiii. 36, | | | 16). ‘The water of
| 37; Deut. i. | | | Meribah in Kadesh in
| 46; xxxii. | | | the wilderness of Zin’
| 51; Judg. | | | (Num. xxvii. 14, Deut.
| xi. 16, 17; | | | xxxii. 51). ‘In the
| Ezek. xlvii. | | | wilderness of Zin,
| 19; xlviii. | | | which is Kadesh’ (Num.
| 28 | | | xxxiii. 36). The name
| | | | still survives in the
| | | | Arabic ‘ʾAin Kadîs,’
| | | | at a spring south of
| | | | Beersheba, proposed
| | | | as the site by the
| | | | Rev. J. Rowlands, and
| | | | supported by the Rev.
| | | | Dr. Clay Trumbull,
| | | | in his work ‘Kadesh
| | | | Barnea.’ Dr. Robinson
| | | | places Kadesh at ‘el
| | | | Weibeh,’ in the valley
| | | | of the Arabah on the
| | | | west side. _See_
| | | | Conder’s _Handbook_,
| | | | p. 249; and _Primer of
| | | | Bible Geography_, p.
| | | | 56.
| | | |
=KADESH-BARNEA= |Num. xxxii. | |-- |Same as the preceding.
| 8; xxxiv. | | |
| 4; Deut. i. | | |
| 2, 19; ii. | | |
| 14; ix. 23; | | |
| Josh. x. 41; | | |
| xiv. 6, 7; | | |
| xv. 3 | | |
| | | |
=KADESH=, |Ps. xxix. 8 | |-- |The district of Kadesh
Wilderness of | | | | Barnea.
| | | |
=KANAH= |Josh. xix. 28 |_Kâna_ | 6 |Now the village Kâna,
| | | | south-east of Tyre 7
| | | | miles. (_Mem._ I. 51,
| | | | 64; Sh. I.)
| | | |
=KANAH=, River |Josh. xvi. 8; |_Wâdy Kânah_ |10 |The boundary between
| xvii. 9 | | | the territories of
| | | | Ephraim and Manasseh.
| | | | Now ‘Wâdy Kânah.’
| | | | (_Mem._ II.; Sh. XIV.)
| | | |
=KARKAA= (R.V. |Josh. xv. 3 |_Not |-- |On the southern
=KARKA=) | | identified_ | | boundary of Judah
| | | | named between ‘Adar’
| | | | and ‘Azmon.’
| | | |
=KARKOR= |Judg. viii. 10|_Not |-- |Probably a district
| | identified_ | | name or a descriptive
| | | | term.
| | | |
=KARTAH= |Josh. xxi. 34 |_Not |-- |Allotted with Jokneam
| | identified_ | | to the children of
| | | | Merari (Levites). A
| | | | city of Zebulon.
| | | |
=KARTAN= |Josh. xxi. 32 |_Not |-- |In the parallel list
| | identified_ | | of 1 Chr. vi. 76,
| | | | the name appears as
| | | | ‘Kirjathaim.’ One of
| | | | the cities of Naphtali
| | | | allotted to the
| | | | Gershonites (Levites),
| | | | and mentioned after
| | | | ‘Hammoth-dor.’
| | | |
=KATTATH= |Josh. xix. 15 |_Not |-- |‘Ketunith,’ mentioned
| | identified_ | | in the Talmud as
| | | | identical with Kattath
| | | | (Josh. xix. 15) may
| | | | perhaps be the ruin of
| | | | Koteineh (Tal. Jer.
| | | | Megilla 70_a_), but
| | | | this is not suitable
| | | | for the Bible Kattath.
| | | | One of the cities of
| | | | Zebulon. (_Mem._ II.
| | | | 48; Sh. VIII.)
| | | |
| | | | Schwarz would identify
| | | | it with Cana (Kefr
| | | | Kenna) of Galilee (p.
| | | | 172).
| | | |
=KEDEMOTH= |Josh. xiii. |_Not |-- |One of the cities
| 18; xxi. 37; | identified_ | | allotted to Reuben.
| 1 Chr. vi. 79| | | East of the Dead Sea.
| | | |
=KEDESH= (1) |Josh. xv. 23 | -- | 6 |Supposed to refer to
| | | | Kadesh-barnea on
| | | | southern border of
| | | | Judah.
| | | |
=KEDESH= (2) |1 Chron. vi. |_Tell Abu |10 |In the parallel list
| 72 | Kadeis_* | | of Joshua xxi. 28,
| | | | the name is ‘Kishon.’
| | | | Possibly ‘Tell Abu
| | | | Kadeis,’ near Lejjûn,
| | | | on the south-west
| | | | of the Plain of
| | | | Esdraelon. A city of
| | | | Issachar. (_Mem._ II.
| | | | 69; Sh. VIII.)--Conder.
| | | |
=KEDESH |Josh. xii. |_Kades_ | 6 |One of the fortified
NAPHTALI= (3) | 22; xix. | | | cities of Naphtali,
| 37; xx. 7; | | | appointed as a city
| xxi. 32; | | | of refuge. Now the
| Judg. iv. | | | village ‘Kades,’ west
| 6, 9, 10, | | | of ‘el Huleh.’ (_Mem._
| 11; 2 Kings | | | I. 204, 226; Sh. IV.)
| xv. 29; 1 | | | Robinson iii. 366, 8;
| Chr. vi. 76; | | | Van de Velde ii. 417;
| 1 Macc. | | | Stanley 365, 390.
| xi. 63 | | |
| | | |
=KEDESH= (4) |Judg. iv. 11 |_Kh. Kadîsh_ | 6 |Near Bitzaananim (_see_
| | (??) | | Zaanaim). Possibly
| | | | the ruin Kadîsh, on
| | | | the shore south of
| | | | Tiberias. (Conder’s
| | | | _Handbook to the
| | | | Bible_.)
| | | |
=KEHELATHAH= |Num. xxxiii. |_Not |-- |One of the camping
| 22 | identified_ | | stations of the
| | | | Israelites.
| | | |
=KEILAH= |Josh. xv. |_Kh. Kîla_ |14 |Now the village
| 44; 1 Sam. | | | Kîla, in the Hebron
| xxiii. 1-8, | | | mountains, 6 miles to
| 10-13; Neh. | | | the west of Hŭlhul.
| iii. 17, 18 | | | (_Mem._ III. 314; Sh.
| | | | XXI.)
| | | |
=KENATH NOBAH= |Num. xxxii. |_Kŭnawât_ | 8 |The ruined town
| 42; 1 Chron. | | | Kanawât, east of
| ii. 23 | | | Bashan.
| | | |
=KERIOTH-HEZRON=|Josh. xv. 25 |_Kh. el |14 |One of the cities in
or =HAZOR= | | Kureitin_ (?)| | the south of Judah.
| | | | Kh. Kureitin, 4½ miles
| | | | north of ‘Arâd,’ has
| | | | been proposed for this
| | | | site. Robinson (B. R.
| | | | ii. 101.)
| | | |
=KERIOTH= |Jer. xlviii. |_Not |15 |Probably = Kiriathaim
| 24, 41 | identified_ | | of Moab which see
| | | | (Conder). ‘Kureiyeh,’
| | | | about midway between
| | | | Bozrah and Salkhad,
| | | | in Sh. 12, has been
| | | | proposed by Porter.
| | | | (_Five Years in
| | | | Damascus_ ii. 191,
| | | | 198.)
| | | |
=KEZIZ=, Valley |Josh. xviii. |_Not |-- |One of the cities
of (R.V. | 21 | identified_ | | mentioned with
=EMEK-KEZIZ=) | | | | ‘Jericho,’
| | | | ‘Beth-hoglah’ and
| | | | ‘Beth-arabah.’ The
| | | | Beth-basi of 1 Macc.
| | | | ix. 62, 64, is thought
| | | | to be a corruption of
| | | | this name (Kezîz.)
| | | |
=KIBROTH- |Num. xi. 34 |_Not |-- |One of the camping
HATTAAVAH= | | identified_ | | stations of the
| | | | Israelites. The name
| | | | ‘et Taba’ occurs in
| | | | the Valley of the
| | | | ʾArabah, 25½ miles
| | | | north of Akabah,
| | | | where there is also a
| | | | burying place.
| | | |
=KIBZAIM= |Josh. xxi. 22 |_Tell el |14 |In the parallel list
| | Kabûs_ (?) | | of 1 Chr. vi. 68
| | | | ‘Jokmeam’ is given
| | | | for ‘Kibzaim.’
| | | | Mentioned between
| | | | Gezer and Beth-horon.
| | | | Tell el Kabûs,
| | | | between Michmash and
| | | | Jerusalem, has been
| | | | proposed. (Conder’s
| | | | _Handbook_.)
| | | |
=KIDRON=, The |2 Sam. xv. |_Wâdy en Nâr_ |14 |Now Wâdy en Nâr, the
Brook | 23; 1 Kings | | | deep and rugged ravine
| ii. 37; xv. | | | winding from Jerusalem
| 13; 2 Kings | | | to the Dead Sea.
| xxiii. 4, | | | (Conder’s _Handbook_,
| 6, 12; 2 | | | p. 330.)
| Chr. xv. 16; | | |
| xxix. 16; | | |
| xxx. 14; | | |
| Jer. xxxi. 40| | |
| | | |
=KINAH= |Josh. xv. 22 |_Not |-- |One of the cities
| | identified_ | | in the extreme
| | | | south towards Edom.
| | | | Mentioned between
| | | | Jagur and Dimonah.
| | | |
=KIR= |Amos i. 5; | -- |-- |The country from which
| ix. 7; 2 | | | the Syrians came, and
| Kings xvi. | | | to which they were
| 9; Isa. | | | taken from Damascus.
| xxii. 6 | | | Supposed to be in
| | | | Lower Mesopotamia.
| | | |
| |} | {|Variations of one name
=KIR-HARASETH= |Isa. xvi. 7; |} | {| all applying to the
(R.V. | 2 Kings iii. |} | {| same place. Now Kerak,
=KIR-HARESETH=)| 25 |} | {| the fortified town
| |} | {| to the east of the
| |} | {| southern end of the
=KIR-HARESH= |Isa. xvi. 11 |} _Kerak_ |14{| ‘Salt Sea.’ (Reland
| |} | {| Pal, 533), (Bohaeddin,
| |} | {| Vit. Sal., ch. 25),
=KIR-HERES= |Jer. xlviii. |} | {| Burckhardt, 379-399;
| 31, 36 |} | {| Irby (ch. vii.),
| |} | {| Seetzen (Reisen i.
=KIR=, of Moab |Isa. xv. 1 |} | {| 412-3), De Saulcy (La
| |} | {| Mer Morte i. 355, etc.)
| | | |
=KIRIATHAIM= |Jer. xlviii. |_el Kŭreiyât_ |15 |Probably the present
| 1, 23; Ezek. | (?) | | ruin el Kureiyât,
| xxv. 9 | | | between ‘Dibon’ and
| | | | ‘Madeba.’
| | | |
=KIRIATHIARIUS= |1 Esd. v. 19 | |-- |A corruption of
| | | | Kirjath-jearim.
| | | |
=KIRIOTH= (R.V. |Amos ii. 2 |_el Kŭreiyât_ |15 |Probably Kiriathaim.
=KERIOTH=) | | (?) | |
| | | |
=KIRJATH= (R.V. |Josh. xviii. |_Kŭryet el |14 |In the tribe of
=KIRIATH=) | 28 | ʾEnab_ | | Benjamin. Now
| | | | generally acknowledged
| | | | as ‘Kŭryet el ʾEnab,’
| | | | which is more
| | | | generally called only
| | | | el Kuryeh. (_Mem._
| | | | III. 132; Sh. XVII).
| | | | It is also thought by
| | | | many to be identical
| | | | with ‘Kirjath-jearim,’
| | | | which see.
| | | |
=KIRJATHAIM= |Num. xxxii. |_el Kŭreiyât_ |15 |In the revised version
(R.V. | 37; Josh. | (?) | | rendered ‘Kiriathaim,’
=KIRIATHAIM=) | xiii. 19 | | | which see. The ruins
| | | | of ‘el Kureiyat,’
| | | | between Medeba and
| | | | Dibon, are now
| | | | believed to represent
| | | | this site. Eusebius
| | | | describes it as a
| | | | village entirely of
| | | | Christians, 10 miles
| | | | west of Medeba, ‘close
| | | | to the Baris’--‘el
| | | | Kureiyat’ is this
| | | | distance, but more
| | | | south than west of
| | | | ‘Medeba.’
| | | |
=KIRJATHAIM= |1 Chron. vi. |_Not |-- |A town in Naphtali,
(R.V. | 76 | identified_ | | not mentioned in the
=KIRIATHAIM=) | | | | original list of Josh.
| | | | xix. 32-39; and in
| | | | the parallel list of
| | | | Joshua xxi. 32, Kartan
| | | | is given.
| | | |
=KIRJATH-ARBA= |Gen. xxiii. |_el Khŭlîl_ |14 |The early name of
(R.V. | 2; Josh. | | | Hebron, and one of the
=KIRIATH-ARBA=)| xiv. 15; xv. | | | six cities appointed
| 13, 54; xx. | | | as a place of refuge.
| 7; xxi. 11; | | | _See_ Hebron.
| Judg. i. 10; | | |
| Neh. xi. 25 | | |
| | | |
=KIRJATH-ARIM= |Ezra ii. 25 | |-- |Another form for
(R.V. | | | | Kirjath-jearim (Neh.
=KIRIATH-ARIM=)| | | | vii. 29). In the book
| | | | of Esdras it is given
| | | | as Kiriathiarius.
| | | | _See_ Kirjath-jearim.
| | | |
=KIRJATH-BAAL= |Josh. xv. 60; | -- |-- |Another name for
(R.V. =KIRIATH-| xviii. 14 | | | ‘Kirjath-jearim,’
BAAL=) | | | | which see.
| | | |
=KIRJATH-HUZOTH=|Num. xxii. 39 |_Not |-- |Somewhere in the
(R.V. =KERIATH-| | identified_ | | neighbourhood of the
HUZOTH=) | | | | ‘high places of Baal’
| | | | in Moab. Perhaps the
| | | | same as Kiriathaim.
| | | |
=KIRJATH-JEARIM=|Josh. ix. 17; |_Kh. ʾErma_ |14 |Also called ‘Baalah’,
(R.V. =KIRIATH-| xv. 9; | (*) or | | ‘Kirjath-baal,’
JEARIM=) | xviii. 14, | _Kuriet el | | ‘Kirjath-arim’ (?)
| 15; xv. 60 | ʾEnab_ (?) | | Kirjath. On the
| | | | boundary line between
| | | | Benjamin and Judah, a
| | | | city belonging to the
| | | | latter. Eusebius and
| | | | Jerome (Onomasticon--
| | | | ‘Cariathiarim’)
| | | | describe it as a
| | | | village at the ninth
| | | | or tenth mile between
| | | | Jerusalem and Lydda.
| | | | Kuriet el Enab, 7½
| | | | miles from Jerusalem
| | | | on the Jaffa road, was
| | | | first proposed by Dr.
| | | | Robinson (B. R. ii.
| | | | 11) and has generally
| | | | been the accepted
| | | | site, till a ruin of
| | | | the name of ‘Erma’
| | | | was found during
| | | | the progress of the
| | | | Western Survey, which
| | | | Capt. Conder proposes
| | | | to identify with
| | | | Jearim. Its position
| | | | is 4 miles west of
| | | | the hill overlooking
| | | | Beth-shemesh, and
| | | | about 12 miles from
| | | | Jerusalem. (_See
| | | | Mem._ III., pp. 43
| | | | to 52, Sh. XVIII.;
| | | | and _Handbook to the
| | | | Bible_, p. 259.)
| | | |
=KIRJATH-SANNAH=|Josh. xv. 49 | == | }|
(R.V. =KIRIATH-| | | }|
SANNAH=) | | | }|
| | | }|
| | |14}|Other names of Debir,
=KIRJATH-SEPHER=|Judg. i. 11, | -- | }| which see.
(R.V. =KIRIATH-| 12 | | }|
SEPHER=) | | | }|
| | | }|
| | | |
=KISHION=, |Josh. xix. |_Not |-- |One of the cities on
=KISHON= (R.V. | 20; xxi. 28 | identified_ | | the boundary of the
=KISHION=) | | | | tribe of Issachar.
| | | |
=KISHON=, River |Judg. iv. 7, |_Nahr el | 6 |Now called Nahr el
| 13; v. 21; 1 | Mŭkuttʾa_ | | Mŭkuttʾa, which drains
| Kings xviii. | | | the whole of the great
| 40; Ps. | | | Plain of Esdraelon.
| lxxxiii. 9 | | | The scene of the
| | | | defeat of Sisera, and
| | | | of the slaughter of
| | | | the Priests by Elijah.
| | | | In Ps. lxxxiii. 9,
| | | | ‘The Brook Kison.’
| | | | (R.V. River Kishon.)
| | | |
=KITHLISH= |Josh. xv. 40 |_Not |-- |A town of Judah in the
(R.V. | | identified_ | | ‘lowland.’
=CHITHLISH=) | | | |
| | | |
=KITRON= |Judg. i. 30 |_Not | 6 |Mentioned along with
| | identified_ | | Nahalol as the two
| | | | towns from which
| | | | Zebulon did not expel
| | | | the Canaanites. The
| | | | Talmud (Megillah i.
| | | | 1) reads Zippori,
| | | | _i.e._ Sepphoris, now
| | | | Seffûrieh.
| | | |
=LADDER= of |1 Macc. xi. 59|_Râs en | 6 |The headland ‘Râs en
Tyrus | | Nakûrah_ | | Nakûrah,’ north of
| | | | ʾAkka.--For notes,
| | | | see Smith’s _Bible
| | | | Dictionary_. (_Mem._
| | | | I.)
| | | |
=LABAN= |Deut. i. 1 |_Not |-- |Thought to refer to the
| | identified_ | | same place as Libnah
| | | | (2) of Num. xxxiii.
| | | | 20, 21.
| | | |
=LACHISH= |Josh. x. 3, |_Umm Lâkis_ |13 |This important city of
| 5-35; xii. | (?) or _Tell | | the Amorites is
| 11; xv. 39; | el Hesy_ (?)*| | described by Eusebius
| 2 Kings xiv. | | | and Jerome
| 19; xviii. | | | (Onomasticon)
| 14, 17; | | | as being 7 miles from
| xix. 8; 2 | | | Eleutheropolis (Beit
| Chr. xi. 9; | | | Jibrîn) towards
| xxv. 27; | | | Daroma. The Mound
| xxxii. 9; | | | of ‘Umm Lâkis,’ to
| Neh. xi. 30; | | | the west of Eglon,
| Is. xxxvi. | | | was first suggested
| 2; xxxvii. | | | by Robinson, but it
| 8; Jer. | | | is 12½ miles from
| xxxiv. 7; | | | Eleutheropolis. ‘Tell
| Micah i. 13 | | | el Hesy,’ immediately
| | | | south of Eglon,
| | | | and 10½ miles from
| | | | Eleutheropolis, is
| | | | now proposed by Capt.
| | | | Conder. (See _Mem._
| | | | III. 261; Sh. XX.)
| | | |
=LAHMAM= (R.V. |Josh. xv. 40 |_Kh. el Lahm_*|13 |Named between ‘Cabbon’
or =LAHMAS=) | | | | and ‘Kithlish,’ towns
| | | | in the low country of
| | | | Judah, but no trace to
| | | | their identity has as
| | | | yet been discovered.
| | | | For this site the
| | | | ruin el Lahm, near
| | | | Beit Jibrîn, has been
| | | | proposed (Conder).
| | | | (_Mem._ III. 261; Sh.
| | | | XX.)
| | | |
=LAISH= (R.V. |Judg. xviii. |_Tell el Kâdy_| 6 |Leshem, Josh. xix. 47.
or =LAISHAH=) | 7-29; Is. x. | | | The original name of
| 30 | | | the city Dan. Now
| | | | ‘Tell el Kâdy,’ 2
| | | | miles west of Banias.
| | | | _See_ Dan. (_Mem._ I.
| | | | 139; Sh. II.)
| | | |
=LAKUM= (R.V. |Josh. xix. 33 |_Not |-- |A place on the boundary
=LAKKUM=) | | identified_ | | of Naphtali, somewhere
| | | | between Jabneel and
| | | | the river Jordan.
| | | |
=LASHA= |Gen. x. 19 |_Not |-- |The position of this
| | identified_ | | place is uncertain.
| | | | Jerome and others
| | | | identify it with
| | | | Callirhoë, the famous
| | | | hot springs in the
| | | | wild and rugged ravine
| | | | of Zerka Mʾaîn--east
| | | | of the Salt Sea.
| | | |
=LASHARON= |Josh. xii. 18 |_Sârôna_ (?)* | 6 |Probably the present
(R.V. | | | | ruin Sârôna, 6½ miles
=LASSHARON=) | | | | west of the south end
| | | | of the Sea of Galilee.
| | | | (_Mem._ I. 370; Sh.
| | | | VI.)--Conder.
| | | |
=LEBANON=, Mount|Deut. i. 7; |_Jebel Libnân_| 3 |Now called Jebel
| iii. 25; xi. | | | Libnân.--For general
| 24; Josh. i. | | | description, see
| 4; ix. 1; | | | Porter’s _Handbook_.
| xi. 17; xii. | | |
| 7; xiii. 5; | | |
| Judg. iii. | | |
| 3; ix. 15; | | |
| 1 Kings iv. | | |
| 33; v. 6, | | |
| 14; vii. 2; | | |
| ix. 19; x. | | |
| 17; 2 Kings | | |
| xiv. 9; xix. | | |
| 23; 2 Chr. | | |
| ii. 8; viii. | | |
| 6; ix. 16; | | |
| xxv. 18; | | |
| Ezra iii. 7; | | |
| Ps. xxix. | | |
| 5; lxxii. | | |
| 16; xcii. | | |
| 12; civ. 16; | | |
| Cant. iii. | | |
| 9; iv. 8; v. | | |
| 15; vii. 4; | | |
| Is. ii. 13; | | |
| x. 34; xiv. | | |
| 8; xxix. | | |
| 17; xxxiii. | | |
| 9; xxxv. 2; | | |
| xxxvii. 24; | | |
| xl. 16; lx. | | |
| 13; Jer. | | |
| xviii. 14; | | |
| xxii. 6; | | |
| Ezek. xvii. | | |
| 3; xxvii. | | |
| 5; xxxi. 3; | | |
| Hos. xiv. 5; | | |
| Neh. i. 4; | | |
| Hab. ii. 17; | | |
| Zech. x. 10; | | |
| xi. 1 | | |
| | | |
=LEBAOTH= |Josh. xv. 32 |_Not |-- |Probably identical
| | identified_ | | with Beth-lebaoth and
| | | | Beth-birei. One of the
| | | | cities of the south.
| | | |
=LEBONAH= |Judg. xxi. 19 |_el Lubban_ |10 |The present village
| | | | Lubban, near the main
| | | | road to Shechem,
| | | | and west of Shiloh.
| | | | (_Mem._ II. 286; Sh.
| | | | XIV.)
| | | |
=LEHI= |Judg. xv. 9, |_Not |-- |Or Ramath-lehi, the
| 14, 19 | identified_ | | scene of Samson’s
| | | | exploit with the
| | | | jawbone of an ass. The
| | | | word means ‘jawbone.’
| | | |
=LESHEM= |Josh. xix. 47 |_Tell el Kâdy_|-- |_See_ Laish.
| | | |
=LIBANUS= |1 Esd. iv. |_Jebel Libnân_|-- |Mount Lebanon.
| 48; v. 55; 2 | | |
| Esd. xv. 20; | | |
| Judith i. | | |
| 7; Eccles. | | |
| xxiv. 13; l. | | |
| 12 | | |
| | | |
=LIBNAH= (1) |Josh. x. 29, |_Not |-- |Named between Makkedah
| 39; xii. | identified_ | | and Lachish, in the
| 15; xv. 42; | | | ‘lowland’ of Judah.
| xxi. 13; 2 | | | (_Mem._ III. 261; Sh.
| Kings viii. | | | XX.)
| 22; xix. 8; | | |
| xxiii. 31; | | |
| xxiv. 18; 1 | | |
| Chr. vi. 57; | | |
| Is. xxxvii. | | |
| 8; 2 Chr. | | |
| xxi. 10; | | |
| Jer. lii. 1 | | |
| | | |
=LIBNAH= (2) |Num. xxxiii. |_Not |-- |One of the camping
| 20, 21 | identified_ | | stations of the
| | | | Israelites, between
| | | | Sinai and Kedesh.
| | | |
=LIBYA= (R.V. |Jer. xlvi. | |-- |Libya is part of Africa
=PUT=) | 9; Ezek. | | | west of Egypt; but Put
| xxxviii. 5 | | | or Phut may have been
| | | | in Asia.
| | | |
=LO-DEBAR= |2 Sam. ix. 4, |_Not |-- |A town of Gilead.
| 5; xvii. 27 | identified_ | |
| | | |
=LOD= |1 Chron. |_Ludd_ | 9 |The present town called
| viii. 12; | | | Ludd, on the plain
| Ezra ii. 33; | | | south-east of Jaffa
| Neh. vii. | | | and north of Ramleh.
| 37; xi. 35 | | | (_Mem._ II. 267; Sh.
| | | | XIII.)
| | | |
=LUHITH=, The |Isa. xv. 5; |_Talʾat el |15 |Probably Talʾat el
Ascent of | Jer. xlviii. | Heith_* | | Heisah (or Heith), one
| 5 | | | mile to the west of
| | | | Mount Nebo.--Conder’s
| | | | _Heth and Moab_,
| | | | p. 140; _Quarterly
| | | | Statement_, 1882, p. 9.
| | | |
=LUZ= (1) |Gen. xxviii. |_Beitîn_ |10 |The old name of Bethel.
| 19; xxxv. 6; | | | The present village
| xlviii. 3; | | | Beitîn. _See_ Bethel.
| Josh. xvi. | | | (_Mem._ II. 305; Sh.
| 2; xviii. | | | XIV.)
| 13; Judg. i. | | |
| 23 | | |
| | | |
=LUZ= (2) |Judg. i. 26 |_Luweizîyeh_ | 6 |In the ‘land of the
| | (?)* | | Hittites.’ The ruin
| | | | Luweizîyeh, west of
| | | | Banias, is proposed by
| | | | Capt. Conder. (_Mem._
| | | | I. 96; Sh. II.)
| | | |
=LYCIA= |1 Macc. xv. | |-- |In the south-west of
| 23; Acts | | | Asia Minor, opposite
| xxvii. 5 | | | Rhodes.--Grove’s
| | | | _Bible Index_.
| | | |
=LYDDA= |1 Macc. xi. 34|_Ludd_ |-- |Another name for Lod
| | | | and Ludd.
| | | |
=LYDIA= |1 Macc. viii. | |-- |A province in Asia
| 8 | | | Minor.
| | | |
=LYDIA= |Ezek. xxx. 5 | |-- |In the Revised Version
| | | | ‘Lud.’
| | | |
=MAACAH=, |2 Sam. x. 6, | |-- |In Deut. iii. 14; Josh.
District | 8; 1 Chr. | | | xii. 5; xiii. 11-13;
of (R.V. | xix. 6, 7 | | | 2 Sam. xxiii. 34;
=ARAM-MAACAH=) | | | | 2 Kings xxv. 23; 1
| | | | Chron. iv. 19; Jer.
| | | | xl. 8. Maachathites
| | | | (Maacathites R.V.)
| | | | Named with Zobah and
| | | | Tob.
| | | |
=MAALEH |Josh. xv. 3 |_Not |21 |Very probably the
ACRABBIM= | | identified_ | | steep declivity at
(R.V. | | | | the southern end of
=AKRABBIM=, | | | | the Salt Sea, and
The Ascent of) | | | | between there and
| | | | Kadesh-barnea.
| | | |
=MAARATH= |Josh. xv. 59 |_Beit Ummar_ |14 |The present village
| | (?)* | | Beit Ummar, 6 miles
| | | | north of Hebron.
| | | | Named in the group of
| | | | cities which contains
| | | | Hŭlhûl, Beth-zur,
| | | | Gedor, Beth-anoth,
| | | | and between the two
| | | | latter. (_Mem._ III.
| | | | 303; Sh. XXI.)--Conder.
| | | |
=MACALON= |1 Esdras v. 21|_Mukhmas_ (?) |-- |A corruption of
| | | | Michmash.
| | | |
=MACHMAS= |1 Macc. ix. 73|_Mukhmas_ |-- |The Greek of Michmash.
| | | |
=MACHPELAH=, |Gen. xxiii. | |14 |The cave beneath the
Cave of | 9, 17, 19; | | | Haram at Hebron.--For
| xxv. 9; | | | plan, etc., and latest
| xlix. 30; l. | | | report of the Haram,
| 13 | | | see Capt. Conder’s
| | | | ‘visit’ in _Quarterly
| | | | Statement_ for
| | | | October, 1882.
| | | |
=MADIAN= |Judith ii. 26 | |-- |The Greek form of
| | | | Midian.
| | | |
=MADMANNAH= |Josh. xv. 31; |_Umm Deimneh_*|13 |Named with Hormah,
| 1 Chron. ii. | | | Ziklag, and Sansannah.
| 49 | | | Possibly the ruin
| | | | Umm Deimneh, 12
| | | | miles north-east of
| | | | Beersheba. (_Mem._
| | | | III. 392, 399; Sh.
| | | | XXIV.)
| | | |
=MADMEN= |Jer. xlviii. 2|_Umm Deineh_ |15 |A place in Moab, ‘Umm
| | (??) | | Deineh,’ 12 miles
| | | | north-east of Dibon,
| | | | in Moab has been
| | | | proposed.
| | | |
=MADMENAH= |Isa. x. 31 |_Not |-- |One of the towns of
| | identified_ | | Benjamin, somewhere
| | | | in the neighbourhood
| | | | of Jerusalem on the
| | | | north; not recovered.
| | | |
=MADON= |Josh. xi. 1; |_Kh. Madîn_ | 6 |Named with ‘Lasharon’
| xii. 19 | (?)* | | (Sarôna) and ‘Hazor.’
| | | | Possibly the ruin
| | | | Madîn, west of the Sea
| | | | of Galilee and close
| | | | to Hattîn. (_Mem._ I.
| | | | 365; Sh. VI.) ‘Kefr
| | | | Menda,’ on the west
| | | | corner of ‘Sahel el
| | | | Buttauf,’ proposed by
| | | | Schwarz (90).
| | | |
=MAGBISH= |Ezra ii. 30 |_Not |-- |In Benjamin, or in
| | identified_ | | Judah.
| | | |
=MAGED= |1 Macc. v. 36 | |-- |_See_ Maked.
| | | |
=MAGIDDO= |1 Esd. i. 29 | |-- |_See_ Megiddo.
| | | |
=MAHANAIM= |Gen. xxxii. |_Mahneh_ (?) |11 |Possibly the heap of
(R.V. ‘Hosts | 2; Josh. | | | ruins now called
or Companies’) | xiii. 26, | | | Mahneh, 14 miles
| 30; Josh. | | | south-east of
| xxi. 38; 2 | | | Beth-shean and near
| Sam. ii. | | | Jabesh-gilead. _See_
| 8, 12, 29; | | | Porter’s _Handbook_,
| xvii. 24, | | | 332; Conder’s _Heth
| 27; xix. 32; | | | and Moab_, pp. 177-180.
| 1 Kings ii. | | |
| 8; iv. 14; 1 | | |
| Chr. vi. 80 | | |
| | | |
=MAHANEH-DAN= |Judg. xiii. |_Wâdy el |14 |‘Camping-place of
| 25; xviii. 12| Mŭtluk_ | | Dan,’ west of
| | | | Kirjath-jearim; and
| | | | Judg. xiii. 25,
| | | | between ‘Zoreah’ and
| | | | ‘Eshtaol.’ Apparently
| | | | the plain immediately
| | | | south of those two
| | | | places, in ‘Wâdy el
| | | | Mŭtluk,’ or ‘Wâdy
| | | | Serâr.’
| | | |
=MAKAZ= |1 Kings iv. 9 |_Not |-- |Mentioned with
| | identified_ | | Shaalbim, Beth-shemesh
| | | | and Elon-beth-hanan.
| | | |
=MAKED= |1 Macc. v. 26 |_el Mejed_ |-- |= Maged, 1 Macc.
| | (?)* | | v. 36. One of the
| | | | great cities of
| | | | Gilead. Perhaps el
| | | | Mejed, north of
| | | | Amman.--Conder.
| | | |
=MAKHELOTH= |Num. xxxiii. |_Not |-- |One of the
| 25 | identified_ | | camping-stations of
| | | | the Israelites.
| | | |
=MAKKEDAH= |Josh. x. 10, |_el Mûghâr_ |13 |Probably the present
| 16-29; xii. | (?)* | | village ‘el Mûghâr.’
| 16; xv. 41 | | | (_Mem._ II. 411; Sh.
| | | | XVI.)--Warren.
| | | |
=MAKTESH= |Zeph. i. 11 | | |The Targum identifies
| | | | this name with the
| | | | Kedron Valley. The
| | | | meaning of ‘Mactesh’
| | | | is probably a deep
| | | | hollow, literally a
| | | | ‘mortar.’
| | | |
=MALLOS= |2 Macc. iv. 30|At mouth of |-- |Was an important city
| | _Seihun_ | | of Cilicia, lying
| | | | at the mouth of the
| | | | Pyramus, about 20
| | | | miles from Tarsus.
| | | |
=MAMRE=, Plain |Gen. xiii. | | |In the neighbourhood of
of (R.V. | 18; xiv. 13, | | | Hebron.
=MAMRE=, | 24; xviii. | | |
The Oaks or | 1; xxiii. | | |
Terebinth of) | 17, 19; xxv. | | |
| 9; xxxv. 27; | | |
| xlix. 30; l. | | |
| 13 | | |
| | | |
=MANAHATH= |1 Chr. viii. 6|_Mâlhah_* |14 |Probably the village
| | | | ‘Málhah,’ 3 miles
| | | | south-west of
| | | | Jerusalem. (_Mem._
| | | | III. 21; Sh.
| | | | XVII.)--Conder.
| | | |
=MANASSEH=, The |Gen. xli. 51; | |-- |‘This was the lot for
Two half Tribes| xlvi. 20; | | | the tribe of Manasseh;
| xlviii. 1, | | | for he was the
| 5, 13, 20; | | | first-born of Joseph;
| l. 23; Num. | | | as for Machir the
| i. 10, 34, | | | first-born of Manasseh
| 35; ii. 20; | | | the father of Gilead,
| vii. 54; x. | | | because he was a man
| 23; xiii. | | | of war, therefore
| 11; xxvi. | | | he had Gilead and
| 28, 29, | | | Bashan (Josh. xvii.).
| 34; xxvii. | | | Their border was from
| 1; xxxii. | | | Mahanaim, all Bashan,
| 33, 39-41; | | | all the kingdom of
| xxxiv. 14, | | | Og, King of Bashan,
| 23; xxxvi. | | | and all the towns of
| 1, 12; Deut. | | | _Jair_, which are
| iii. 13, | | | in _Bashan_, three
| 14; xxix. | | | score cities; and
| 8; xxxiii. | | | half Gilead, and
| 17; xxxiv. | | | _Ashtaroth_, and
| 2; Josh. | | | _Edrei_, the cities
| i. 12; iv. | | | of the Kingdom of
| 12; xii. 6; | | | Og in Bashan, were
| xiii. 7, 29, | | | for the children of
| 31; xiv. 4; | | | Machir (Josh. xiii.).
| xvi. 4, 9; | | | And there fell ten
| xvii. 1-3, | | | parts to Manasseh
| 5-12, 17; | | | beside the land of
| xviii. 7; | | | Gilead and Bashan,
| xx. 8; xxi. | | | which is beyond
| 5, 6, 25, | | | Jordan.... And the
| 27; xxii. 1, | | | border of _Manasseh_
| 7, 9, 11-31; | | | was from _Asher_ to
| Judg. i. 27; | | | _Michmethath_, which
| vi. 15, 35; | | | is before Shechem; and
| vii. 23; xi. | | | the border went along
| 29; 1 Kings | | | to the right hand,
| iv. 13; 1 | | | unto the inhabitants
| Chr. v. 18, | | | of _En-tappuah_. The
| 23, 26; vi. | | | land of _Tappuah_
| 61, 62, 70, | | | belonged to Manasseh,
| 71; vii. 14, | | | but _Tappuah_ on the
| 17, 29; ix. | | | border of Manasseh
| 3; xii. 19, | | | belonged to the
| 20, 31, 37; | | | children of Ephraim.
| xxvi. 32; | | | And the border went
| xxvii. 20, | | | down into the brook
| 21; 2 Chr. | | | of _Kanah_, southward
| xv. 9; xxx. | | | of the brook; these
| 1, 10, 11, | | | cities belonged to
| 18; xxxi. | | | Ephraim among the
| 1; xxxiv. | | | cities of Manasseh;
| 6, 9; Ps. | | | and the border of
| lx. 7; lxxx. | | | Manasseh was on the
| 2; cviii. | | | north side of the
| 8; Is. ix. | | | brook, and the goings
| 21; Ezek. | | | out thereof were at
| xlviii. 4, 5 | | | the sea; southward
| | | | it was Ephraim’s and
| | | | northward it was
| | | | Manasseh’s, and the
| | | | sea was his border;
| | | | and they reached to
| | | | Asher on the north,
| | | | and to Issachar
| | | | on the east. And
| | | | _Manasseh_ had in
| | | | _Issachar_ and in
| | | | _Asher Beth-shean_ and
| | | | her towns, _Ibleam_
| | | | and her towns, and
| | | | the inhabitants of
| | | | _Dor_ and her towns,
| | | | and the inhabitants
| | | | of _En-dor_ and
| | | | her towns, and
| | | | the inhabitants
| | | | of _Taanach_ and
| | | | her towns and the
| | | | inhabitants of
| | | | _Megiddo_ and her
| | | | towns, even the three
| | | | heights,’ etc. (Josh.
| | | | xvii. 7-11). ‘The
| | | | half-tribe of Manasseh
| | | | had the land from
| | | | Jordan to the city
| | | | Dora; but its breadth
| | | | was at Beth-shan,
| | | | which is now called
| | | | Scythopolis’ (5 Ant.
| | | | i. 22). ‘Also Gilead
| | | | and Bashan’ (9 Ant.
| | | | viii. 1).
| | | |
=MAON= |Josh. xv. 55; |_Kh. Mʾaîn_ |14 |The present ruined town
| 1 Sam. xxv. 2| | | ‘Mʾaîn,’ south of
| | | | Hebron. (_Mem._ III.
| | | | 404, 415; Sh. XXV.)
| | | |
=MAON=, |1 Sam. xxiii. | |14 |The country to the east
Wilderness of | 24, 25 | | | of Maon.
| | | |
=MARAH= (R.V. |Exod. xv. 23; |_Not |-- |Three days’ journey
margin | Num. xxxiii. | identified_ | | in the wilderness of
‘Bitterness’) | 8, 9 | | | Etham, from where the
| | | | Israelites crossed
| | | | the Red Sea; where
| | | | the bitter waters
| | | | were made sweet.
| | | | ʾAin Hawârah, some
| | | | 16 hours from ‘ʾAyûn
| | | | Mŭsa,’ is generally
| | | | supposed to represent
| | | | the camping-station,
| | | | or some other spring
| | | | near it, possibly
| | | | in Wâdy Ghurûndul.
| | | | Robinson, B. R. i. 67;
| | | | Burckhardt, Schubert,
| | | | Stanley, etc., etc.
| | | |
=MARALAH= |Josh. xix. 11 |_Mʾalûl_ (?)* | 6 |A place on the boundary
| | | | of Zebulon. Possibly
| | | | the village Mʾalûl,
| | | | west of Nazareth.
| | | | (_Mem._ I. 274, 322;
| | | | Sh. V.)--Conder.
| | | |
=MARESHAH= |Josh. xv. 44; |_Kh. Merʾash_ |13 |Now the ruin Merʾash,
| 2 Chron. xi. | | | close to Beit Jibrin.
| 8; xiv. 9, | | | In 2 Macc. xii. 35,
| 10; xx. 37; | | | Marissaa. (_Mem._
| Micah i. 15 | | | III.; Sh. XX.)
| | | |
=MAROTH= |Micah i. 12 |_Not |-- |(?) Maarath, a town of
| | identified_ | | Judah.
| | | |
=MASALOTH= |1 Macc. ix. 2 |_Not |-- |Caverns near Arbela (12
| | identified_ | | Ant. ii. 1). Probably
| | | | those in ‘Wâdy Hammâm.’
| | | |
=MASHAL= |1 Chron. vi. | |-- |_See_ Misheal.
| 74 | | |
| | | |
=MASPHA= (1) |1 Macc. iii. | |-- |The ancient Mizpeh of
| 46 | | | Benjamin.
| | | |
=MASPHA= (2) |1 Macc. v. 35 | |-- |Probably Ramath Mizpeh
| | | | of Gilead.
| | | |
=MASREKAH= |Gen. xxxvi. |_Not |-- |In the country of
| 36; 1 Chr. | identified_ | | Idumæa, in the
| i. 47 | | | neighbourhood of
| | | | Petra. Uncertain.
| | | |
=MASSAH= and |Exod. xvii. 7 | |-- |‘The rock in Horeb,’
=MERIBAH= | | | | signifying ‘Tempting’
| | | | or ‘Proving,’ and
| | | | ‘Chiding’ or strife.
| | | | (Margin R.V.)
| | | |
=MATTANAH= |Num. xxi. 18, |_Not |15 |One of the camping
| 19 | identified_ | | stations of the
| | | | Israelites.
| | | | Probably Wâdy
| | | | Waleh.--_Quarterly
| | | | Statement_, p. 86,
| | | | 1882; _Heth and Moab_,
| | | | p. 144.
| | | |
=MEAH=, Tower |Neh. iii. 1; |_Not |-- |One of the towers
of (R.V. | xii. 39 | identified_ | | of the wall of
=HAMMEAH=, | | | | Jerusalem. It stood
Tower of) | | | | between the tower
| | | | of Hananeel and the
| | | | sheep-gate--probably
| | | | near the north-east
| | | | corner of the city.
| | | |
=MEARAH= |Josh. xiii. 4 |_el | 2 |‘Beside the Sidonians.’
| | Mogheiriyeh_*| | Probably the village
| | | | Mogheirîyeh, 6
| | | | miles north-east of
| | | | Sidon.--Conder.
| | | |
=MEDEBA= |Num. xxi. 30; |_Medeba_ |15 |The present ruins
| Josh. xiii. | | | Medeba. In 1 Macc. ix.
| 9, 16; 1 | | | 36, Medaba.--Conder’s
| Chr. xix. 7; | | | _Heth and Moab_, p.
| Isa. xv. 2 | | | 138.
| | | |
=MEDIA= |1 Esd. iii. | |-- |South and south-west of
| 1, 14; vi. | | | the Caspian, and east
| 23; Tobit | | | of Armenia.
| xi. 15; xiv. | | |
| 4, 14; 1 | | |
| Macc. vi. | | |
| 56; viii. 8; | | |
| xiv. 1, 2 | | |
| | | |
=MEGIDDO= |Josh. xii. |_el Lejjûn_, |10 |A town in Issachar
| 21; xvii. | _Tell el | | allotted to Manasseh.
| 11; Judg. i. | Mutasellim_, | | Placed by Robinson
| 27; v. 19; | _Kh. | | at ‘el Lejjûn’; by
| 1 Kings iv. | Mujeddʾa_ | | Thomson at ‘Tell
| 12; ix. 15; | (?)* | | el Mutasellim,’
| 2 Kings ix. | | | immediately north
| 27; xxiii. | | | of Lejjûn; and by
| 29, 30; 1 | | | Conder at Mujeddʾa,
| Chr. vii. 29 | | | in the valley 3
| | | | miles south-west
| | | | of Beth-shean.
| | | | (_Mem._ II. 90; Sh.
| | | | VIII.)--Conder’s
| | | | _Handbook to the
| | | | Bible_, p. 287.
| | | |
=MEGIDDO=, |Judg. v. 19 | |10 |Some fine, copious
Waters of | | | | springs are near the
| | | | ruins of Mujeddʾa,
| | | | and also at el
| | | | Lejjûn, but much
| | | | smaller.--Conder’s
| | | | _Handbook to the
| | | | Bible_.
| | | |
=MEGIDDO=, |2 Chron. | |-- |Probably the Valley
Valley of, or | xxxv. 22; | | | of Jezreel, near
=MEGIDDON= | Zech. xii. 11| | | Mujeddʾa.--Conder’s
| | | | _Handbook to the
| | | | Bible_.
| | | |
=ME-JARKON= |Josh. xix. 46 |_Not | 9 |Probably near the
| | identified_ | | river ʾAuja, north of
| | | | Jaffa. (_Mem._ II.;
| | | | Sh. XIII.) The word is
| | | | said to mean ‘yellow
| | | | water.’
| | | |
=MEKONAH= (R.V. |Neh. ix. 37 |_Kh. el |13 |Probably Mechanum,
=MECONAH=) | | Mekenna_ (?)*| | 8 Roman miles from
| | | | Eleutheropolis
| | | | (Onomasticon). The
| | | | present large ruin
| | | | ‘Mekenna,’ 12 miles
| | | | north-west of Beit
| | | | Jibrîn. (_Mem._ II.
| | | | 425; Sh. XVI.)--Conder.
| | | |
=MEMPHIS= or |Isa. xix. 13; |_Mitrahumy_ |-- |A city in Egypt; it was
=NOPH= | Jer. ii. 16; | | | on the left bank of
| xliv. 1; | | | the Nile, the capital
| xlvi. 14, | | | of lower Egypt and the
| 19; Ezek. | | | site of the principal
| xxx. 13, 16; | | | Egyptian Necropolis.
| Hos. ix. 6; | | | Smith’s _Dictionary to
| Judith i. 10 | | | the Bible_.
| | | |
=MEONENIM=, |Judg. ix. 37 |_Not |-- |Near Shechem (Nablus).
Plain of (R.V. | | identified_ | | The word is
=MEONENIM=, | | | | usually translated
The Oak or | | | | ‘Enchanters.’
Terebinth of) | | | |
| | | |
=MEPHAATH= |Josh. xiii. |_Not |-- |A city of Reuben.
| 18; xxi. 37; | identified_ | |
| 1 Chron. vi. | | |
| 79; Jer. | | |
| xlviii. 21 | | |
| | | |
=MERAN= |Bar. iii. 23 |_Not |-- |
| | identified_ | |
| | | |
=MERIBAH= or |Ex. xvii. 7; | |-- |The name given to
=MERIBAH | Num. xx. 13, | | | the place where the
KADESH= | 24; xxvii. | | | rock was struck,
| 14; Deut. | | | and the people
| xxxiii. 8; | | | murmured.--Conder’s
| Ps. lxxxi. | | | _Handbook to the
| 7; Deut. | | | Bible_, and _Primer of
| xxxii. 51; | | | Bible Geography_, p.
| Ezek. xlvii. | | | 56.
| 19 | | |