=MEROM=, Waters |Josh. xi. 7 |_Baheiret el | 6 |Now ‘Baheiret el
of | | Hûleh_ | | Hûleh.’ (_Mem._ I.
| | | | 205; Sh. IV.)
| | | |
=MERONOTH= |1 Chr. xxvii. |_Kh. Marrîna_ |14 |Possibly the ruin
| 30; Neh. | (??)* | | Marrîna, in the Hebron
| iii. 7 | | | mountains, 4 miles
| | | | north of Hŭlhûl.
| | | | (_Mem._ III. 314, 359;
| | | | Sh. XXI.)--Conder.
| | | |
=MEROZ= |Judg. v. 23 |_Not |-- |The village el
| | identified_ | | Mŭrussus, 4 miles
| | | | north of Beth-shean
| | | | is mentioned by
| | | | Burckhardt and
| | | | Robinson (II. 356.)
| | | | The Arabic word,
| | | | however, does not
| | | | represent the Hebrew.
| | | |
=MESHA= |Gen. x. 30 |_Not |-- |Thought to be Mûsa, on
| | identified_ | | the Red Sea.--_See_
| | | | Smith’s _Bible
| | | | Dictionary_.
| | | |
=MESOPOTAMIA= |Gen. xxiv. | |-- |The district enclosed
| 10; Deut. | | | between the two
| xxiii. 4; | | | rivers of Tigris
| Judg. iii. | | | and Euphrates,
| 8, 10; 1 | | | especially the
| Chr. xix. 6; | | | north-western portion
| Judith ii. | | | thereof.--Grove’s
| 24; v. 7, 8; | | | _Bible Index_.
| viii. 26; | | |
| Acts ii. 9; | | |
| vii. 2 | | |
| | | |
=MICHMASH= |1 Sam. xiii. |_Mŭkhmâs_ |14 |Now the village
| 2-23; xiv. | | | ‘Mŭkhmâs,’ 7 miles
| 5, 31; Ezra | | | north of Jerusalem. In
| ii. 27; Neh. | | | Ezra ii. 27; Neh. vii.
| vii. 31; xi. | | | 31, Michmas. (_Mem._
| 31; Isa. x. | | | III. 149; Sh. XVII.)
| 28 | | |
| | | |
=MICHMETHAH= |Josh. xvi. 6; |_Sahel el |10 |Generally identified
(R.V. | xvii. 7 | Mukhnah_ (?) | | with the great
=MICHMETHATH=) | | | | ‘plain of Mukhnah.’
| | | | _See_ Asher.
| | | | (_Mem._ II. 169;
| | | | Sh. XI.)--Conder’s
| | | | _Handbook to the
| | | | Bible_, p. 104.
| | | |
=MIDDIN= |Josh. xv. 61 |_Not |-- |One of the six cities
| | identified_ | | situated in the
| | | | wilderness of Judea.
| | | | The name ‘Kh. Mird’
| | | | occurs 9 miles east of
| | | | Jerusalem.
| | | |
=MIDIAN= |Frequently | |-- |Country east of gulf of
| mentioned | | | ‘Akabah,’ and part of
| | | | Sinai Peninsula.
| | | |
=MIGDAL-EL= |Josh. xix. 38 |_Mûjeidel_ | 6 |Named in the group Iron
| | | | (Yarûn) and Horem
| | | | (Harah), etc., etc.,
| | | | of Naphtali. Now
| | | | Mujeidel, in Upper
| | | | Galilee. (_Mem._ I.
| | | | 96; Sh. II.)--Van de
| | | | Velde.
| | | |
=MIGDAL-GAD= |Josh. xv. 37 |_el Mejdel_ |13 |Possibly the important
| | (??) | | village 2 miles inland
| | | | from Askelon. (_Mem._
| | | | II. 410; Sh. XVI.)
| | | |
=MIGDOL= |Ez. xiv. 2; | |-- |On the east borders of
| Num. xxxiii. | | | Egypt.
| 7; Jer. | | |
| xliv. 1; | | |
| xlvi. 14 | | |
| | | |
=MIGRON= |1 Sam. xiv. |_Not |-- |A place in the
| 2; Isa. x. 28| identified_ | | neighbourhood of
| | | | Gibeah.
| | | |
=MILLO= (1) |2 Sam. v. 9; | |-- |Part of the city of
| 1 Kings ix. | | | David.
| 15, 24; xi. | | |
| 27; 2 Kings | | |
| xii. 20; 1 | | |
| Chr. xi. | | |
| 8; 2 Chr. | | |
| xxxii. 5 | | |
| | | |
=MILLO=, The |Judg. ix. 6, | |-- |In Shechem.
House of | 20 | | |
| | | |
=MINNI= |Jer. li. 27 | | |Kingdom of Ararat.
| | | |
=MINNITH= |Judg. xi. 33; |_Not |-- |Four Roman miles from
| Ezek. xxvii. | identified_ | | Heshbon, on the road
| 17 | | | to Philadelphia
| | | | (Amman)--Onomasticon.
| | | | In _Heth & Moab_
| | | | ‘Minyeh,’ to the
| | | | south of Nebo, is
| | | | proposed.--Conder’s
| | | | _Handbook_ and
| | | | _Quarterly Statement_,
| | | | pp. 10, 81, 1882.
| | | |
=MIPHKAD=, The |Neh. iii. 31 | |-- |One of the gates of
Gate (R.V. | | | | Jerusalem at the time
=HAMMIPHKAD=, | | | | of the rebuilding of
The Gate of) | | | | the wall after the
| | | | return from captivity.
| | | |
=MISGAB= |Jer. xlviii. 1|_Not |-- |‘The high place’
| | identified_ | | (A.V.), ‘The high
| | | | fort’ (R.V.) of Moab.
| | | |
=MISHAL=, or |Josh. xix. |_Mʾaîsleh_* | 6 |A town in Asher. The
=MISHEAL= | 26; xxi. 30 | | | name is apparently
(R.V. =MISHAL=)| | | | preserved in that of
| | | | Wâdy Mʾaîsleh, 8 miles
| | | | to the north-east of
| | | | Accho. Probably one
| | | | of the ruins in that
| | | | valley.
| | | |
=MISREPHOTH- |Josh. xi. 8; |_Sarafend_ | 2 |Mentioned with Sidon
MAIM= | xiii. 6 | | | (Zidon-rabbah). Now
| | | | the present village
| | | | and ruins (Sarafend
| | | | Sarepta) on the
| | | | coast north of
| | | | Sidon.--Thompson.
| | | |
=MITHCAH= (R.V. |Num. xxxiii. |_Not |-- |One of the
=MITHKAH=) | 29 | identified_ | | camping-stations of
| | | | the Israelites in the
| | | | desert.
| | | |
=MIZAR=, The |Ps. xlii. 6 |_Not |-- |Signifying ‘the
Hill | | identified_ | | little mountain,’ in
| | | | the region of the
| | | | Hermonites.
| | | |
=MIZPAH= (1), |Gen. xxxi. |_Sûf_ (?)* |11 |Also called
or =MIZPEH= | 49; Jud. x. | | | ‘Jegar-sahadutha’
| 17; xi. 11, | | | (‘the heap of
| 29, 34; xx. | | | witness’) and
| 1, 3; xxi. | | | ‘Galeed’ (‘the heap
| 1, 5, 8; 1 | | | of witness’) where
| Mac. v. 35 | | | Jacob and Laban met.
| | | | The most appropriate
| | | | site for Mizpeh is
| | | | that of Sûf, north of
| | | | the Jabbok and near
| | | | to Jerash, where a
| | | | very fine group of
| | | | rude stone monuments
| | | | exists.--Conder’s
| | | | _Heth & Moab_ (new
| | | | edition), p. 181,
| | | | and _Primer to Bible
| | | | Geography_, pp.
| | | | 43, 85. See also
| | | | Oliphant’s _Land of
| | | | Gilead_, pp. 209-216.
| | | |
=MIZPEH=, Moab |1 Sam. xxii. 3|_Not |-- |See Conder’s _Heth &
(2) | | identified_ | | Moab_, 175.
| | | |
=MIZPEH=, The |Josh. xi. 3 |_el Bukeiʾa_ | 3 |And ‘Valley of Mizpeh’
Land of (3) | | (?) | | (Josh. xi. 8).
| | | | Apparently the present
| | | | plain ‘el Bukeiʾa,’
| | | | west of Hermon.
| | | |
=MIZPEH= (4) |Josh. xv. 38 |_Not |-- |A city of Judah,
| | identified_ | | mentioned with
| | | | Migdal-gad, Dilean,
| | | | and Joktheel--on the
| | | | plain of Philistia.
| | | |
=MIZPEH= (5) |Josh. xviii. |_Not |14 |A city of Benjamin,
| 26; Judg. | identified_ | | named in the group
| xx. 1-3; | | | between Beeroth
| xxi. 1, 5, | | | (Bireh), and Chephirah
| 8; 1 Sam. | | | (Kefîreh). Robinson
| vii. 5-16; | | | (B. R. I. 460) places
| x. 17; 1 | | | it at ‘Neby Samwil.’
| Kings xv. | | | Others propose ‘Tell
| 22; 2 Kings | | | el Fûl.’ ‘Scopus,’
| xxv. 23, 25; | | | Stanley (S. and P.
| 2 Chr. xvi. | | | 1st ed. 222), and
| 6; Neh. iii. | | | Dr. Bonar (Land of
| 7, 15, 19; | | | Promise). In Conder’s
| Jer. xl. | | | _Handbook_, p. 277,
| 6-15; xli. | | | it is suggested that
| 1-16; Hos. | | | perhaps Nob and Mizpeh
| v. 1 | | | are the same place.
| | | | (_Mem._ III. 149;
| | | | Sh. XVII.)--Conder’s
| | | | _Primer of Bible
| | | | Geography_, p. 90.
| | | |
=MIZRAIM= |Gen. x. 6, | |-- |Egypt.
| 13; 1 Chr. | | |
| i. 8, 11. | | |
| Elsewhere | | |
| called Egypt | | |
| | | |
=MOAB= |Very |_Co. east of |-- |The application of the
| frequently | Dead Sea_ | | term seems to differ
| mentioned | | | at different periods.
| | | |
=MOCHMUR=, The |Judith vii. 18|_Wâdy el |10 |Probably ‘Wâdy el
Brook | | Ahmar_* | | Ahmar’--one of
| | | | the names of the
| | | | valley south of
| | | | ‘Kuzah’--having
| | | | its source at
| | | | ‘ʾAkrabah.’ (Sh. XIV.,
| | | | XV.)--Conder.
| | | |
=MODIN= |1 Macc. ii. |_Midieh_ |10 |The present village
| 1, 15, 23, | | | Midieh, 13 miles west
| 70; ix. 19; | | | of Bethel. (_Mem._ II.
| xiii. 25, | | | 341; Sh. XIV.)
| 30; xvi. | | |
| 4; 2 Macc. | | |
| xiii. 14 | | |
| | | |
=MOLADAH= |Josh. xv. 26; |_Not |-- |‘One of the uttermost
| xix. 2; 1 | identified_ | | cities of Judah
| Chr. iv. 28; | | | towards the coast
| Neh. xi. 26 | | | of Edom.’ Placed by
| | | | Robinson at ‘Tell el
| | | | Milh,’ 13 miles east
| | | | of Beer Sheba (Vol.
| | | | II. pp. 201, 621.) For
| | | | ‘Tell el Milh’ Captain
| | | | Conder proposes the
| | | | ‘City of Salt.’ Josh.
| | | | xv. 62. (_Mem._ III.
| | | | pp. 404, 415; Sh.
| | | | XXV.) The Hebrew has
| | | | no connection with the
| | | | Arabic Milh ‘Salt,’
| | | | Heb. Melakh. The
| | | | identification of Tell
| | | | el Milh is due to the
| | | | Onomasticon.
| | | |
=MOREH=, Oak or |Gen. xii. 6; | |10 |The plain east of
Plain of (R.V. | Deut. xi. 30 | | | Shechem.
or =TEREBINTH=)| | | |
| | | |
=MOREH=, Hill of|Judg. vii. 1 |_Neby Dŭhy_ |10 |Very probably the hill
| | (?) | | called ‘Neby Dŭhy,’
| | | | and sometimes little
| | | | Hermon.--Smith’s
| | | | _Dictionary to the
| | | | Bible_.
| | | |
=MORESHETH-GATH=|Micah i. 14 |_Not |-- |Perhaps Mareshah, south
| | identified_ | | of Gath.
| | | |
=MORIAH=, Land |Gen. xxii. 2 | |-- |_See_ Smith’s _Bible
of | | | | Dictionary_. Usually
| | | | identified with
| | | | Mount Moriah. Dean
| | | | Stanley (_Sinai and
| | | | Palestine_) proposed
| | | | Gerizim. Jewish
| | | | tradition indicates
| | | | the first; the
| | | | Samaritans hold to the
| | | | latter.
| | | |
=MORIAH=, Mount |2 Chr. iii. 1 | |-- |The Temple Area,
| | | | Jerusalem.
| | | |
=MOSERA=, or |Deut. x. 6; |_Not |-- |In the neighbourhood of
=MOSEROTH= | Num. xxxiii. | identified_ | | Petra.
(R.V. | 30, 31 | | |
=MOSERAH=) | | | |
| | | |
=MOUNTAIN OF |Deut. i. 19, | |-- |Between Horeb and
THE AMORITES= | 20 | | | Kadesh-barnea.
| | | |
=MOUNT OF |1 Kings xi. | |-- |Part of Olivet. Perhaps
CORRUPTION= | 7; 2 Kings | | | should read ‘Mt. of
| xxiii. 13 | | | Anointing.’ (_See_
| | | | Conder’s _Handbook_.)
| | | |
=MOZAH= |Josh. xviii. |_Kh. Beit |14 |Talmud Jer. Succah 4,
| 26 | Mizzeh_ | | 5, calls it Colonia.
| | | | Near Kôlonia, west of
| | | | Jerusalem, is the ruin
| | | | Beit Mizzeh, one of
| | | | the cities allotted
| | | | to Benjamin. (_Mem._
| | | | III.; Sh. XVII.)
| | | |
=MYNDUS= |1 Macc. xv. 23|_Mentesche_ |-- |A town on the coast of
| | (?) | | Caria, between Miletus
| | | | and Halicarnassus
| | | | (Budrum.)
| | | |
=NAAMAH= |Josh. xv. 41 |_Nâʾaneh_* |13 |A town in the lowland
| | | | of Judah. Now the
| | | | village Nâʾaneh, 6
| | | | miles south of ‘Lod.’
| | | | (_Mem._ II. 403; Sh.
| | | | XVI.)--Warren.
| | | |
=NAARAN= (R.V. |1 Chr. vii. 28| |-- |Probably the same as
=NAARAN= or | | | | the next.
=NAARAH=) | | | |
| | | |
=NAARATH= (R.V. |Josh. xvi. 7 |_Kh. el Aûjeh |10 |Eusebius and Jerome
=NAARAH=) | | et Tahtâni_ | | (Onomasticon) speak
| | (?)* | | of it as a small
| | | | village of the Jews,
| | | | 5 miles from Jericho,
| | | | ‘Naorath.’ One of
| | | | the towns on the
| | | | borders of Ephraim and
| | | | Benjamin, named next
| | | | to Ataroth (Tell et
| | | | Truny) and Jericho.
| | | | Five miles north of
| | | | Jericho are traces of
| | | | a ruined town, now
| | | | called ‘Khurbet el
| | | | Aujeh et Tahtâni.’
| | | | (_Mem._ II. 391; Sh.
| | | | XV.)--Conder.
| | | |
=NADABATHA= |1 Macc. ix. 37|_Not |-- |Thought to be on the
| | identified_ | | east of Jordan.
| | | |
=NAHALLAL= or |Josh. xix. |_ʾAin Mâhil_ | 6 |The Talmud Jer.
=NAHALAL= | 15; xxi. 35 | (?)* | | Megillah i. 1, renders
| | | | it Mahlul. Probably
=NAHALOL= (R.V. |Judg. i. 30 | | | from its relative
=NAHALAL= or | | | | position ‘ʾAin Mâhil.’
=NAHALOL=) | | | | (_Mem._ I. 365; Sh.
| | | | VI.)--Conder.
| | | |
=NAHALIEL= |Num. xxi. 19 |_Wâdy Zerka |15 |One of the
| | Mʾain_ (?)* | | camping-stations of
| | | | the Israelites: the
| | | | next after Mattaneh.
| | | | Very probably
| | | | the rugged and
| | | | precipitous ravine
| | | | now called ‘Wâdy
| | | | Zerka Mʾaîn.’--Conder
| | | | (_Heth & Moab_, pp.
| | | | 141, 144); _Quarterly
| | | | Statement_, p. 86,
| | | | 1882.
| | | |
=NAIOTH= |1 Sam. xix. |_Not |-- |Somewhere near Ramah.
| 18; 22, 23; | identified_ | |
| xx. 1 | | |
| | | |
=NANEA=, Temple |2 Macc. i. | |-- |Perhaps the Babylonian
of | 13, 15 | | | Nana or ‘mother’
| | | | goddess.
| | | |
=NAPHTALI=, |Gen. xxx. 8; | |-- |‘Naphtali--And their
Tribe of | xxxv. 25; | | | border was from
| xlvi. 24; | | | _Heleph_, from the
| xlix. 21; | | | oak in _Zaanannim_
| Exodus i. | | | and _Adami-nekeb_,
| 4; Num. i. | | | and _Jabneel_, unto
| 15, 42, 43; | | | _Lakkum_; and the
| ii. 29; vii. | | | goings out thereof
| 78; x. 27; | | | were at _Jordan_,
| xiii. 14; | | | and the border
| xxvi. 48, | | | turned westward to
| 50; xxxiv. | | | _Aznoth-tabor_,
| 28; Deut. | | | and went out from
| xxvii. 13; | | | thence to _Hukkok_;
| xxxiii. 23; | | | and it reached to
| xxxiv. 2; | | | _Zebulon_ on the
| Josh. xix. | | | south, and reached to
| 32, 39; xx. | | | _Asher_ on the west,
| 7; xxi. 6, | | | and to _Judah_ at
| 32; Judg. i. | | | _Jordan_ toward the
| 33; iv. 6, | | | sunrising. And the
| 10; v. 18; | | | fenced cities were
| vi. 35; vii. | | | _Ziddim_, _Zer_, and
| 23; 1 Kings | | | _Hammath_, _Rakkath_,
| iv. 15; vii. | | | and _Chinnereth_; and
| 14; xv. 20; | | | _Adamah_, and _Ramah_,
| 2 Kings xv. | | | and _Hazor_; and
| 29; 1 Chr. | | | _Kedesh_, and _Edrei_,
| ii. 2; vi. | | | and _En-hazor_; and
| 62, 76; vii. | | | _Iron_, _Migdal-el_,
| 13; xii. 34, | | | _Horem_, and
| 40; xxvii. | | | _Beth-anath_, and
| 19; 2 Chr. | | | _Beth-shemesh_;
| xvi. 4; | | | nineteen cities with
| xxxiv. 6; | | | their villages’ (Josh.
| Ps. lxviii. | | | xix. 33-39). ‘The
| 27; Is. ix. | | | Naphtalites received
| 1; Ezek. | | | the eastern part,
| xlviii. 3, | | | as far as the city
| 4, 34 | | | of Damascus and the
| | | | Upper Galilee, unto
| | | | Mount Libanus, and the
| | | | fountains of Jordan
| | | | which rise out of that
| | | | mountain; that is, out
| | | | of that part of it
| | | | whose limits belong to
| | | | the neighbouring city
| | | | of Ara’ (5 Ant. i. 22).
| | | |
=NASOR=, The |1 Macc. xi. 67|_Merj el | 6 |Josephus reads Asor (13
Plain of | | Hadîreh_* | | Ant. v. 7). Now Merj
| | | | el Hadîreh, west of
| | | | the Hûleh Lake. _See_
| | | | Hazor.
| | | |
=NEAH= |Josh. xix. 13 |_Not |-- |A place on the boundary
| | identified_ | | of Zebulon, next to
| | | | Remmon-methoar.
| | | |
=NEBALLAT= |Neh. xi. 34 |_Beit Nebâla_ |10 |Named with ‘Lod’
| | | | (Lydda) and Ono (Kefr
| | | | Ana). Now the village
| | | | Beit Nebâla, 3½ miles
| | | | north-east of Lydda.
| | | | (_Mem._ II. 296; Sh.
| | | | XIV.)
| | | |
=NEBO=, Mount |Deut. xxxii. |_Jebel Neba_ |15 |Now Jebel Neba in Moab,
(1) | 49; xxxiv. 1 | | | overlooking the Jordan
| | | | Valley. _See_ Conder’s
| | | | _Heth & Moab_, pp.
| | | | 129-137, 249.
| | | |
=NEBO= (2) |Num. xxxii. | |-- |Perhaps on the
| 3, 38; | | | mountain--Mount Nebo.
| xxxiii. 47; | | | (_Heth & Moab_, pp.
| 1 Chr. v. 8; | | | 129-137.) The notices
| Is. xv. 2; | | | of Eusebius and Jerome
| Jer. xlviii. | | | make the two (Mount
| 1, 22 | | | Nebo and Nebo) to be
| | | | distinct and distant
| | | | from each other, and
| | | | place the town 8 miles
| | | | south of Heshbon,
| | | | where a number of
| | | | ruins exist.
| | | |
=NEBO= (3) |Ezra ii. 29; |_Beit Nuba_ |14 |Thought by some to be
| Neh. vii. 33 | (?) or | | ‘Beit Nuba,’ in the
| | _Nûba_ (?)* | | valley of Ajalon, 12
| | | | miles to the west of
| | | | Jerusalem. (Smith’s
| | | | _Bible Dictionary_.)
| | | | The village Nuba,
| | | | 4 miles south of
| | | | Adullam, proposed by
| | | | Capt. Conder. See
| | | | _Mem._ p. 302; Sh. XXI.
| | | |
=NEIEL= |Josh. xix. 27 |_Kh. Yʾanîn_ | 6 |A place mentioned as
| | (?)* | | being on the boundary
| | | | of Asher, and between
| | | | Jiphthah-el and Cabul.
| | | | The ruin ‘Yʾanîn,’ 9
| | | | miles east of ʾAkka,
| | | | proposed by Capt.
| | | | Conder. (_Mem._ I.
| | | | pp. 322, 325; Sh.
| | | | V.) The village
| | | | ‘Miar,’ 2 miles east
| | | | of ‘Yʾanîn,’ was
| | | | proposed by Robinson
| | | | and adopted by others.
| | | | (Rob. iii. 87, 103.)
| | | |
=NEKEB= (R.V. |Josh. xix. 33 |_Kh. | 6 |The Tal. Jer.
=ADAMI-NEKEB=) | | Seiyâdeh_ | | Megillah i. 1 reads
| | (?)* | | Tziadathah. Now the
| | | | ruin ‘Seiyâdeh,’
| | | | immediately west of
| | | | the Sea of Galilee.
| | | | Named between
| | | | Zaanannim and Jabneel,
| | | | on the boundary of
| | | | Naphtali. (_Mem._ I.
| | | | 365; Sh. VI.) In the
| | | | R.V. rendered as one
| | | | name Adami-nekeb.
| | | | _See_ Adami.
| | | |
=NEPHIS= |1 Esd. v. 21 | |-- |
| | | |
=NEPHTOAH=, The |Josh. xv. 9; |_ʾAin ʾAtan_ |14 |On the border of
Waters of | xviii. 15 | (?)* | | Judah and Benjamin,
| | | | generally identified
| | | | with Lifta. Conder,
| | | | in his _Handbook
| | | | to Bible_, p. 258,
| | | | points out that
| | | | the Rabbinical
| | | | commentators (Tal Bab
| | | | Yoma 31_a_) make the
| | | | waters of Nephtoah
| | | | and ‘En Etam’ to be
| | | | the same, whence an
| | | | aqueduct led to the
| | | | Temple, and thus
| | | | identifies with ʾAin
| | | | ʾAtan, south-west of
| | | | Bethlehem, which still
| | | | supplies the Haram
| | | | Area of Jerusalem.
| | | | (_Mem._ III. 43; Sh.
| | | | XVII.)
| | | |
=NETOPHAH= |Ezra ii. 22; |_Kh. Umm |14 |The ruin ‘Umm Toba,’
| Neh. vii. | Tôba_ (?) | | north of Bethlehem.
| 26; 1 Esd. | | | (_Mem._ III. 52; Sh.
| v. 18 | | | XVIII.) Or possibly
| | | | Beit Nettif (Rob.
| | | | _Bib. Res._ ii. 16,
| | | | 17). _See_ Porter’s
| | | | _Handbook_, p. 248.
| | | |
=NEZIB= |Josh. xv. 43 |_Beit Nŭsîb_ |14 |The present ruin ‘Beit
| | | | Nŭsîb,’ 8 miles
| | | | north-west of Hebron.
| | | | (_Mem._ III. 314; Sh.
| | | | XXI.)
| | | |
=NIBSHAN= |Josh. xv. 62 |_Not |-- |One of the six cities
| | identified_ | | of Judah, which were
| | | | in the wilderness.
| | | |
=NIMRAH= |Num. xxxii. 3 |_Tell Nimrin_ |14 |_See_ Beth-nimrah. R.V.
| | | | margin.
| | | |
=NIMRIM=, |Isaiah xv. 6; |_W. Nimrin_ |14 |Either the springs near
Waters of | Jer. xlviii. | (?) | | ‘Beth-nimrah’ or those
| 34 | | | in ‘Wady N’meirah,’
| | | | between Kerak and the
| | | | Brook Zered, near the
| | | | south end of the Dead
| | | | Sea. De Saulcy Voyage,
| | | | i. 284; Seetzen, ii.
| | | | 354; Tristram, Land of
| | | | Israel, 1882, p. 334.
| | | |
=NINEVEH= |Gen. x. 11, | |-- |On the river Tigris,
| 12; 2 Kings | | | opposite Mosul.
| xix. 36; Is. | | | _See_ Smith’s _Bible
| xxxvii. 37; | | | Dictionary_.
| Jonah i. 2; | | |
| iii. 2-7; | | |
| iv. 11; Nah. | | |
| i. 1; ii. | | |
| 8; iii. 7; | | |
| Zeph. ii. | | |
| 13; Matt. | | |
| xii. 41 | | |
| | | |
=NO=, or |Jer. xlvi. |_Thebes_ |-- |A city of Egypt, Thebæ
=NO-AMON= | 25; Ezek. | | | (Thebes) or Diospolis
| xxx. 14; 15, | | | Magna.--Smith’s _Bible
| 16; Nah. | | | Dictionary_.
| iii. 8 | | |
| | | |
=NOB= |1 Sam. xxi. |_Not |-- |A Priests’ city in
| 1; xxii. 9, | identified_ | | sight of Jerusalem,
| 11, 19; Neh. | | | where the Ark of the
| xi. 32; Isa. | | | covenant was deposited
| x. 32 | | | for some time. Jerome
| | | | states that nothing
| | | | remained in his time
| | | | to indicate where it
| | | | had been. Dr. Robinson
| | | | would place it
| | | | somewhere on the Mount
| | | | of Olives north-east
| | | | of the city. (Vol.
| | | | I. p. 464.) Porter’s
| | | | _Handbook_, ii.
| | | | 324--the ruin to the
| | | | east of Shʾafât.
| | | | Capt. Conder proposes
| | | | to identify it with
| | | | Mizpeh. See _Quarterly
| | | | Statement_, 1875, pp.
| | | | 34-41.
| | | |
=NOBAH= (1) |Num. xxxii. |_Kânawât_ | 8 |_See_ Kenath--probably
=NOBAH= (2) | 42 Judg. | | | the same place.
| viii. 11 | | |
| | | |
=NOPH= |Is. xix. 13; |_Abu Sîr_ |-- |Memphis--the modern
| Jer. ii. 16; | | | ‘Abu-Sîr’ in Egypt.
| xliv. 1; | | |
| xlvi. 14, | | |
| 19; Ezek. | | |
| xxx. 13, 16 | | |
| | | |
=NOPHAH= |Num. xxi. 30 |_Not |-- |Named with ‘Dibon’ and
| | identified_ | | ‘Medeba,’ on the east
| | | | of Jordan.
| | | |
=OBOTH= |Num. xxi. 10; |_Not |-- |One of the
| xxxiii. 43 | identified_ | | camping-stations of
| | | | the Israelites.
| | | |
=OCINA= |Judith ii. 28 |_Accho_ (??) |-- |Thought to refer to
| | | | Accho.
| | | |
=ODOLLAM= |2 Macc. xii. |_ʾAid el Mâ_* |-- |= Adullam, which see.
| 38 | | |
| | | |
=OLIVET=, |2 Sam. xv. |_Jebel et Tôr_|14 |Now called Jebel et
Olives, Mount | 30; Ezek. | | | Tôr. (_Mem._ III.;
of | xi. 23; | | | Sh. XVII.) East of
(R.V. =OLIVES=,| Zech. xiv. 4 | | | Jerusalem.
Mount of) | | | |
| | | |
=ON= |Gen. xli. 45; |_Heliopolis_ |-- |A town of lower Egypt.
| xlvi. 20 | | | The sacred city of
| | | | Heliopolis, about 10
| | | | miles north-east of
| | | | Cairo; also called
| | | | Beth-shemesh and Aven,
| | | | which see.
| | | |
=ONO= |1 Chr. viii. |_Kefr ʾAna_ | 9 |Now the village ‘Kefr
| 12; Ezra ii. | | | ʾAna,’ 5 miles north
| 33; Neh. vi. | | | of Lydda. In 1 Esdr.
| 2; vii. 37; | | | v. 22 Onus. (_Mem._
| xi. 35 | | | II. 251; Sh. XIII.)
| | | |
=OPHEL= |2 Chr. xxvii. | |-- |A part of ancient
| 3; xxxiii. | | | Jerusalem, south of
| 14; Neh. | | | the Temple enclosure.
| iii. 26, 27; | | |
| xi. 21 | | |
| | | |
=OPHIR= |Gen. x. 29; |_Not |-- |Probably Southern
| 1 Kings ix. | identified_ | | Arabia. _See_ Smith’s
| 28; x. 11; | | | _Bible Dictionary_.
| xxii. 48; 1 | | |
| Chr. i. 23; | | |
| xxix. 4; 2 | | |
| Chr. viii. | | |
| 18; ix. 10; | | |
| Job xxii. | | |
| 24; xxviii. | | |
| 16; Ps. xlv. | | |
| 9; Isaiah | | |
| xiii. 12; | | |
| Tobit xiii. | | |
| 17 | | |
| | | |
=OPHNI= |Josh. xviii. |_Jufna_ (?) |10 |A town of Benjamin.
| 24 | | | Supposed by some to
| | | | be Jufna, the Gophna
| | | | of Josephus, 3 miles
| | | | north-west of Bethel,
| | | | but this would perhaps
| | | | place it outside
| | | | Benjamin. (_Mem._ II.;
| | | | Sh. XIV.)
| | | |
=OPHRAH= (1) |Josh. xviii. |_et Taiyibeh_ |10 |‘Five Roman miles
| 23; 1 Sam. | | | east of Bethel’
| xiii. 17 | | | (Onomasticon). This
| | | | appears to point to
| | | | the present large
| | | | village Taiyibeh.
| | | | (_Mem._ II. 293; Sh.
| | | | XIV.)
| | | |
=OPHRAH= (2) |Jud. vi. 11, |_Ferʾata_ (?)*|10 |Probably the present
| 24; viii. | | | village Ferʾata,
| 27, 32; ix. 5| | | 6 miles west of
| | | | Shechem, the old name
| | | | of which was Ophrah
| | | | (Samaritan Chronicle).
| | | | (_Mem._ II. 162; Sh.
| | | | XI.)--Conder.
| | | |
=OREB=, The Rock|Judg. vii. |_Not |-- |ʾOsh el Ghurâb, a
| 25; Isa. x. | identified_ | | prominent peak in
| 26 | | | the Jordan Valley,
| | | | north of Jericho, has
| | | | been proposed. See
| | | | _Quarterly Statement_,
| | | | p. 22, 1877. (_Mem._
| | | | III.; Sh. XVIII.)
| | | |
=OREB=, Mount |2 Esdras ii. | |-- |Mount Horeb.
| 33 | | |
| | | |
=PADAN= |Gen. xlviii. 7| |-- |Padan-aram.
| | | |
=PADAN-ARAM= |Gen. xxv. | |-- |The land of Mesopotamia.
| 20; xxviii. | | |
| 2, 5, 6, 7; | | |
| xxxi. 18; | | |
| xxxiii. 18; | | |
| xxxv. 9, 26; | | |
| xlvi. 15 | | |
| | | |
=PAMPHYLIA= |1 Macc. xv. 23| |-- |A district on the south
| | | | coast of Asia Minor,
| | | | between Lycia and
| | | | Cilicia.
| | | |
=PARAH= |Josh. xviii. |_Kh. Fârah_ |14 |One of the cities
| 23 | | | in and allotted to
| | | | Benjamin. Now the ruin
| | | | Fârah, south-east of
| | | | Michmash. (_Mem._ III.
| | | | 174; Sh. XVIII.)
| | | |
=PARAN=, Desert |Gen. xiv. 6; |_et Tih_ |27 |The desert (‘et Tih’)
of (el Paran) | xxi. 21; | | | between Kadesh and
| Num. x. 12; | | | Sinai.
| xii. 16; | | |
| xiii. 3, 26; | | |
| Deut. i. 1; | | |
| 1 Sam. xxv. | | |
| 1; 1 Kings | | |
| xi. 18 | | |
| | | |
=PARAN=, Mount |Deut. xxxiii. |_Not |-- |_See_ preceding.
| 2; Hab. iii. | identified_ | |
| 3 | | |
| | | |
=PARVAIM= |2 Chr. iii. 6 |_Not |-- |The name of the country
| | identified_ | | from which the gold
| | | | was procured for
| | | | the decoration of
| | | | Solomon’s Temple.
| | | |
=PAS-DAMMIM= |1 Chr. xi. 13 | |-- |_See_ Ephes-dammim.
| | | |
=PATHROS= |Is. xi. 11; | |-- |A part of Upper Egypt,
| Jer. xliv. | | | possibly about Thebes.
| 1, 15; Ezek. | | | Pathrusim, Gen. x. 14;
| xxix. 14; | | | 1 Chr. i. 12
| xxx. 14 | | |
| | | |
=PAU= |Gen. xxxvi. 39|_Not |-- |The capital of Hadar,
| | identified_ | | King of Edom.
| | | |
=PAI= |1 Chr. i. 50 |_Not |-- |Probably the same as
| | identified_ | | the preceding.
| | | |
=PENIEL= AND |Gen. xxxii. |_Not |-- |Very probably somewhere
=PENUEL= | 30; xxxii. | identified_ | | on the northern slope
| 31; Judg. | | | of ‘Jebel Osha.’ See
| viii. 8, 9, | | | _Heth & Moab_, pp.
| 17; 1 Kings | | | 177-179.
| xii. 25 | | |
| | | |
=PEOR=, Top of |Num. xxiii. 28|_Not |14 |_See_ Beth-peor.
| | identified_ | | Probably the
| | | | commanding peak
| | | | above ‘ʾAin Minyeh,’
| | | | overlooking the Dead
| | | | Sea, etc. _Quarterly
| | | | Statement_, p. 87;
| | | | 1882.
| | | |
=PERAZIM=, Mount|Isaiah |_Not |-- |_See_ Baal-perazim.
| xxviii. 21 | identified_ | |
| | | |
=PEREZ-UZZAH= |2 Sam. vi. 8; |_Not |-- |The threshing-floor
| 1 Chr. xiii. | identified_ | | of Nachon, in the
| 11 | | | neighbourhood of
| | | | Jerusalem.
| | | |
=PERSEPOLIS= |2 Macc. ix. 2 |_Chehl-Minar_ |-- |At one time the capital
| | | | of Persia proper. Now
| | | | called Chehl-Minar.
| | | | The ruins are of
| | | | great extent and
| | | | magnificence, covering
| | | | an area of many
| | | | acres. _See_ Niebuhr
| | | | (_Reis_, ii. 121);
| | | | Chardin (_Voyages_,
| | | | ii. 245); Ker Porter
| | | | (_Travels_, i. 576);
| | | | Heeren (_Asiatic
| | | | Nations_, i. 143-196);
| | | | Rich (_Residence in
| | | | Khurdistan_, ii. pp.
| | | | 218-222); Fergusson
| | | | (_Palaces of Nineveh
| | | | and Persepolis
| | | | Restored_, pp.
| | | | 89-124); etc.
| | | |
=PERSIA= |2 Chr. xxxvi. | |-- |
| 20, 22, 23; | | |
| Ezr. i. 1, | | |
| 2, 8; iii. | | |
| 7; iv. 3, 5, | | |
| 7, 24; vi. | | |
| 14; vii. 1; | | |
| ix. 9; Esth. | | |
| i. 3, 14, | | |
| 18; x. 2; | | |
| Ezek. xxvii. | | |
| 10; xxxviii. | | |
| 5; Dan. | | |
| viii. 20; | | |
| x. 1, 13, | | |
| 20; xi. 2; 1 | | |
| Esdr. iii. | | |
| 1, 9, 14; v. | | |
| 6; vii. 4; | | |
| viii. 80; | | |
| Judith i. | | |
| 7; Bel i. | | |
| 1; 1 Macc. | | |
| iii. 31; vi. | | |
| 1, 5, 56; 2 | | |
| Macc. i. 13, | | |
| 19, 20, 33; | | |
| ix. 1, 21 | | |
| | | |
=PETHOR= |Num. xxii. 5; | |-- |A town of Mesopotamia,
| Deut. xxiii. | | | where Balaam resided.
| 4 | | | Situated on the
| | | | Euphrates.
| | | |
=PHARATHONI= |1 Macc. ix. 50|_Not |-- |Probably Pirathon,
| | identified_ | | which see.
| | | |
=PHARPAR=, River|2 Kings v. 12 |_Nahr Taura_, |-- |In the Arabic version
| | one of the | | Nahr Taura takes the
| | branches of | | place of Pharpar.
| | the Barada | |
| | (?) | |
| | | |
=PHASELIS= |1 Macc. xv. 23|_Tekrova_ |-- |A town on the coast of
| | | | Asia Minor, on the
| | | | confines of Lycia and
| | | | Pamphylia. Now called
| | | | Tekrova. (Smith’s
| | | | _Bible Dictionary_.)
| | | |
=PHENICE= |1 Esdr. ii. | |-- |Phenicia in 3 Macc.
| 17, 24, 25, | | | iii. 15; 4 Macc. iv. 2
| 27; iv. 48; | | |
| vi. 3, 7, | | |
| 27, 29; vii. | | |
| 1; viii. 19, | | |
| 23, 67; 2 | | |
| Esdr. 1, 2; | | |
| 2 Macc. iii. | | |
| 5, 8; iv. 4, | | |
| 22; viii. 8; | | |
| x. 11 | | |
| | | |
=PHILISTIA= |Ps. lx. 8; | |-- |The south part of the
| lxxxvii. 4; | | | maritime plain of
| cviii. 9 | | | Syria. Identical with
| | | | the word Palestine.
| | | | (Smith’s _Bible
| | | | Dictionary_.)
| | | |
=PHISON= |Ecclus. xxiv. | |-- |The Greek form of Pison.
| 25 | | |
| | | |
=PHUD= |Judith ii. 23 | |-- |Phut. _See_ Put.
| | | |
=PI-BESETH= |Ezek. xxx. 17 |_Tell Basta_ |-- |Bubastis. Now ‘Tell
| | | | Basta,’ near Zagazig,
| | | | in Lower Egypt.
| | | |
=PI-HAHIROTH= |Ex. xiv. 2, |_Not |-- |Camping-station of the
| 9; Num. | identified_ | | Israelites before
| xxxiii. 7, 8 | | | Migdol.
| | | |
=PIRA= |1 Esdr. v. 19 | |-- |Thought to be a
| | | | repetition and
| | | | variation of Caphira
| | | | in the same verse.
| | | |
=PIRATHON= |Judg. xii. 15 |_Ferʾôn_ (?)* |10 |‘In the land of
| | | | Ephraim in the Mount
| | | | of the Amalekites.’
| | | | According to the old
| | | | traveller Hap-Parchi,
| | | | it lay about two
| | | | hours (6 miles) west
| | | | of Shechem, and was
| | | | called ‘Ferʾata’
| | | | (Asher’s Benjamin
| | | | of Tud. ii. 426;
| | | | Robinson iii. 134).
| | | | Some 14 miles to the
| | | | west of Shechem and
| | | | north of Ferʾata is
| | | | the village Ferʾôn,
| | | | which Capt. Conder
| | | | proposes to identify
| | | | with Pirathon. (_Mem._
| | | | II. 164; Sh. XI.)
| | | | Pharathoni (1 Macc.
| | | | ix. 50) is possibly
| | | | the same.
| | | |
=PISGAH=, Mount |Num. xxi. 20; |_Râs Sîâghah_ |15 |Apparently the peak
| xxiii. 14; | | | called ‘Râs Sîâghah,’
| Deut. iii. | | | west of Neba (Mount
| 17, 27; iv. | | | Nebo). (_Heth and
| 49; xxxiv. 1 | | | Moab_, p. 129.)
| | | |
=PISON= (R.V. |Gen. ii. 11 | | |One of the four heads
=PISHON=) | | | | flowing out of Eden.
| | | |
=PITHOM= |Ex. i. 11 |_Tell Mahuta_ |-- |In Lower Egypt, on
| | | | the Ismailia Zagazig
| | | | Railway.
| | | |
=PTOLEMAIS= |1 Macc. v. |_ʾAkka_ |-- |Accho--St. Jean d’Acre,
| 15, 22, 55; | | | the modern ʾAkka;
| x. 1, 39, | | | _see_ Accho.
| 50-58, 60; | | |
| xi. 22, 24; | | |
| xii. 45, 48; | | |
| xiii. 12; 2 | | |
| Macc. xiii. | | |
| 24, 25; Acts | | |
| xxi. 7 | | |
| | | |
=PUNON= |Num. xxxiii. |_Not |-- |Camping-station of the
| 43 | identified_ | | Israelites in the
| | | | desert.
| | | |
=PUT= |1 Chr. i. 8; |_Not |-- |A Hamite people. Phut
| Nah. iii. 9 | identified_ | | (Gen. x. 6); Phud
| | | | (Judith ii. 23); Libya
| | | | (Jer. xlvi. 9; Ezek.
| | | | xxxviii. 5; _see_
| | | | Libya.) (Grove’s
| | | | _Bible Index_.)
| | | |
=RABBAH= |Josh. xv. 60 |_Kh. Rubba_ |14 |A city of Judah, named
| | (?)* | | with Kirjath-jearim.
| | | | Possibly ‘Rubba,’ in
| | | | the hills, 4 miles
| | | | east of Beit Jibrîn.
| | | | (_Mem._ III. 314; Sh.
| | | | XXI.)--Conder.
| | | |
=RABBAH= |Josh. xiii. |_ʾAmmân_ |11 |Now called ʾAmmân,
| 25; 2 Sam. | | | on the highlands of
| xi. 1; xii. | | | Gilead. A large Roman
| 26, 27, 29; | | | city (Philadelphia)
| xvii. 27; 1 | | | was built there in the
| Chr. xx. 1; | | | second century
| Ezek. xxi. 20| | | A.D., of which fine
| | | | ruins yet remain.
=RABBAH= of the |Jer. xlix. 2, | | | ‘The City of Waters’
Ammonites | 3 | | | (_Heth and Moab_, p.
| | | | 152); Conder’s _Primer
=RABBATH= of |Ezek. xxi. 20 | | | of Bible Geography_,
the Ammonites | | | | p. 103; _see_ also
(R.V. =RABBAH=)| | | | Burckhardt (_Syria_,
| | | | 357-360); Seetzen
=RABBATH= of |Deut. iii. 11 | | | (_Reisen_ i. 396;
Ammon (R.V. | | | | iv. 212, 214); Irby
=RABBAH=) | | | | (June 14); Buckingham
| | | | (_East Syria_, 68-82);
| | | | Lord Lindsay (5th ed.
| | | | 278-284); Robinson
| | | | (ii. 172-178).
| | | |
=RABBITH= |Josh. xix. 20 |_Râba_* |10 |Now the village ‘Râba,’
| | | | on the watershed south
| | | | of Gilboa. (_Mem._ II.
| | | | Sh. XII.)--Conder.
| | | |
=RACHAL= (R.V. |1 Sam. xxx. 29|_Not |-- |In the south of Judah.
=RACAL=) | | identified_ | |
| | | |
=RACHEL=, Tomb |Gen. xxxv. |_Kubbet Râhîl_|14 |Kubbet Râhil, near
of | 20; 1 Sam. | | | Bethlehem. The site
| x. 2 | | | has been shown from
| | | | the fourth century
| | | | to the present time
| | | | in the same place.
| | | | (_Mem._ III. 54, 55,
| | | | and 129; Sh. XVII.)
| | | |
=RAGAU= |Judith i. 5, | |-- |Probably another form
| 15 | | | for ‘Rages.’
| | | |
=RAGES= |Job i. 14; |_Rhey_ |-- |‘A city of Media.’ The
| iv. 1, 20; | | | name ‘Rhey’ is now
| v. 5; vi. 9, | | | applied to the ruins
| 12; ix. 2 | | | 5 miles south-east of
| | | | Teheran. _See_ Ker
| | | | Porter’s _Travels_,
| | | | i. 357-364; Fraser’s
| | | | _Khorassan_, p. 286.
| | | |
=RAKKATH= |Josh. xix. 35 |_Tûbarîya_ | 6 |One of the fortified
| | | | towns of Naphtali. The
| | | | old name of Tiberias.
| | | | (_Mem._ I. 365; Sh.
| | | | VI.)
| | | |
=RAKKON= |Josh. xix. 46 |_Tell er | 9 |One of the towns
| | Rakkeit_* | | of Dan. Now Tell
| | | | er Rakkeit, north
| | | | of Jaffa. (_Mem._
| | | | II. 262, 275; Sh.
| | | | XIII.)--Conder.
| | | |
=RAMAH= (1), of |Josh. xviii. |_er-Ram_ |14 |Now the village er-Ram,
Benjamin | 25; Judg. | | | 5 miles north of
| iv. 5; xix. | | | Jerusalem. It is
| 13; 1 Sam. | | | uncertain whether
| xxii. 6; 1 | | | these references point
| Kings xv. | | | to one or more places.
| 17, 21; 2 | | | (_Mem._ III. 13; Sh.
| Chr. xvi. 1; | | | XVII.)
| Ezra ii. 26; | | |
| Neh. vii. | | |
| 30; xi. 33; | | |
| Is. x. 29; | | |
| Jer. xxxi. | | |
| 15; xl. 1; | | |
| Hos. v. 8 | | |
| | | |
=RAMAH= (2) |Josh. xix. 36 |_er Râmeh_ | 6 |Now the village
| | | | ‘Râmeh,’ in Lower
| | | | Galilee, west of
| | | | Safed. (_Mem._ I. 205;
| | | | Sh. IV.)
| | | |
=RAMAH= (3) |Josh. xix. 29 |_Râmia_ (?) | 6 |Now the village Râmia,
| | | | east of the Ladder
| | | | of Tyrus, in Upper
| | | | Galilee. (_Mem._ I.;
| | | | Sh. IV.)
| | | |
=RAMATH-LEHI= |Judg. xv. 17 |_Not |-- |
| | identified_ | |
| | | |
=RAMATH-MIZPEH= |Josh. xiii. 26|_er Rimthe_ |11 |Possibly the ruin
| | (??)* | | ‘Rimthe,’ in the
| | | | northern limits of
| | | | Gad, and about midway
| | | | between Bozrah and the
| | | | Jordan (Conder’s _Heth
| | | | & Moab_, 175).
| | | |
=RAMATH-NEGEB= |Josh. xix. 8; |_Not |-- |Somewhere in the south
(R.V. =RAMAH= | 1 Sam. xxx. | identified_ | | of Judah. In Sam. xxx.
of the South) | 27 | | | 27 Ramoth.
| | | |
=RAMATHAIM- |1 Sam. i. 1, |_Not |-- |Somewhere in Mount
ZOPHIM= or | 19; ii. 11; | identified_ | | Ephraim. It does not
=RAMAH= | vii. 17; | | | appear to have been
| viii. 4; xv. | | | the same place as
| 34; xvi. 13; | | | Ramah (1).
| xix. 18-23; | | |
| xx. 1; xxv. | | |
| 1; xxviii. 3 | | |
| | | |
=RAMATHEM= |1 Macc. xi. 34|_Not |-- |Thought to be the same
| | identified_ | | as last.
| | | |
=RAMESES |Gen. xlvii. |_Not |-- |A city in Lower Egypt.
RAAMSES | 11; Ex. i. | identified_ | | Thought to be the same
RAMESSE= | 11; xii. 37; | | | as Zoan; which see.
| Num. xxxiii. | | |
| 3, 5; Judith | | |
| i. 9 | | |
| | | |
=RAMOTH= |1 Chr. vi. 73 |_er Râmeh_* |10 |Now the village Râmeh,
| | | | south of the plain
| | | | of Esdraelon. _See_
| | | | Remeth. (_Mem._ II.
| | | | 155; Sh. XI.)--Conder.
| | | |
=RAMOTH= in |Deut. iv. 43; |_Reimûn_ (?)* |11 |One of the six
Gilead | Josh. xx. | | | cities of refuge.
| 8; xxi. 38; | | | Fifteen Roman miles
| 1 Kings iv. | | | from Philadelphia
| 13; xxii. | | | (Onomasticon). The
| 3-24; 2 | | | village Es-Salt is
| Kings viii. | | | about this distance.
| 28; ix. 1, | | | In 2 Kings viii. 29,
| 4, 14; 1 | | | and Chr. xxii. 6,
| Chr. vi. | | | called Ramah. Probably
| 80; 2 Chr. | | | Reimûn (Conder’s _Heth
| xviii. 2-28; | | | and Moab_, p. 175).
| xxii. 5 | | |
| | | |
=RAPHIA= |3 Macc. i. 1 | |-- |Probably the same as
| | | | Raphon.
| | | |
=RAPHON= or |1 Macc. v. 37 |_Rafeh_ (?) | 7 |Placed at ‘Rafeh,’ 4
=RAPHANA= | | | | miles south-west of
| | | | Edrei, by Dr. Merill
| | | | (East of Jordan).
| | | |
=RECHAH= (R.V. |1 Chr. iv. 12 |_Not |-- |
=RECAH=) | | identified_ | |
| | | |
=RED SEA= |Ex. x. 19; | | |
| xiii. 18; | | |
| xv. 4, 22; | | |
| xxiii. 31; | | |
| Num. xiv. | | |
| 25; xxi. 4, | | |
| 14; xxxiii. | | |
| 10, 11; | | |
| Deut. i. 1, | | |
| 40; xi. 4; | | |
| Josh. ii. | | |
| 10; iv. 23; | | |
| xxiv. 6; | | |
| Judg. xi. | | |
| 16; 1 Kings | | |
| ix. 26; Neh. | | |
| ix. 9; Ps. | | |
| cvi. 5-9, | | |
| 22; cxxxvi. | | |
| 13, 15; | | |
| Jer. xlix. | | |
| 21; Judith | | |
| v. 13; 1 | | |
| Macc. iv. | | |
| 9; Called | | |
| ‘the Sea’ in | | |
| Exodus xiv. | | |
| 2, 9, 16, | | |
| 21, 28; xv. | | |
| 1, 4, 8, 10, | | |
| 19; Josh. | | |
| xxiv. 6, 7 | | |
| | | |
=REHOB= (1) |Num. xiii. |_Hunîn_ (??) | 6 |_See_ Beth-rehob, near
| 21; 2 Sam. | | | Banias, Laish, and Dan
| x. 6, 8 | | | (Tell el Kâdy), a city
| | | | in the valley that
| | | | lieth by ‘Beth-rehob.’
| | | |
=REHOB= (2) |Josh. xix. |_Not |-- |Allotted to Asher.
| 28; xxi. 31; | identified_ | |
| 1 Chr. vi. 75| | |
| | | |
=REHOB= (3) |Josh. xix. |_Not |-- |Allotted to Asher.
| 30; Judg. i. | identified_ | |
| 31 | | |
| | | |
=REHOBOTH= |Gen. xxvi. 22 |_Ruheibeh_ |20 |To the south of
| | | | Beersheba and Bered
| | | | are a heap of ruins,
| | | | and some wells called
| | | | ‘er Ruheibeh.’ _See
| | | | Desert of Sinai_, 316,
| | | | by Dr. Bonar.
| | | |
=REHOBOTH=, The |Gen. x. 11 |_Not |11 |Usually placed near
City (R.V. | | identified_ | | Nineveh on the south
=REHOBOTH-IR=) | | | | side. _See_ the next.
| | | |
=REHOBOTH= by |Gen. xxxvi. |_Rahabeh_, |-- |‘The name “Rahabeh” is
the River | 37; 1 Chr. | or _Rahabeh | | applied to two places
| i. 48 | Melek_ (?) | | on the Euphrates,
| | | | one 8 miles below
| | | | the junction of the
| | | | Khabûr, about 3 miles
| | | | west of the river
| | | | (Chesney, _Euphrates_,
| | | | i. 119; ii. 610), the
| | | | other 4 or 5 miles
| | | | further down on the
| | | | left bank, and called
| | | | Rahabeh Melek.’
| | | |
=REKEM= |Josh. xviii. |_Not |-- |One of the towns of
| 27 | identified_ | | Benjamin. Named
| | | | between Mozah (Beit
| | | | Mizzeh) and Irpeel
| | | | (Rafat?). ʾAin Karim
| | | | has been proposed
| | | | (Smith’s _Bible
| | | | Dictionary_), but the
| | | | name and position are
| | | | alike unsatisfactory.
| | | | Possibly the word
| | | | should read Dekem, in
| | | | which case Beit Dukku
| | | | lies in a probable
| | | | position.
| | | |
=REMETH= |Josh. xix. 21 |_er Râmeh_ |10 |? Ramoth of 1 Chr. vi.
| | (?)* | | 73. Now the village
| | | | er Râmeh, 5½ miles
| | | | north of Samaria.
| | | | (_Mem._ II. 155; Sh.
| | | | XI.)--Conder.
| | | |
=REMMON= (R.V. |Josh. xix. 7 | |13 |_See_ En-rimmon (of
=RIMMON=) | | | | Simeon).
| | | |
=REMMON |Josh. xix. 13 |_Rummâneh_ | 6 |Now the village
METHOAR= (R.V. | | | | Rummâneh, on the edge
=RIMMON=) | | | | of ‘Sahel el Buttauf,’
| | | | north of Nazareth and
| | | | Seffurieh. (_Mem._
| | | | I. 363; Sh. VI.)
| | | | Methoar means ‘which
| | | | stretches.’
| | | |
=REPHAIM=, The |Josh. xv. |_el Bŭkeiʾa_ |14 |Now called el Bŭkeiʾa,
Valley of | 8; xviii. | | | the plain south of
| 16; 2 Sam. | | | Jerusalem, on the way
| v. 18-22; | | | to Bethlehem.
| xxiii. 13; 1 | | |
| Chr. xi. 15; | | |
| xiv. 9; Is. | | |
| xvii. 5 | | |
| | | |
=REPHIDIM= |Num. xxxiii. |_Not |-- |One of the camping
| 14, 15 | identified_ | | places of the
| | | | Israelites in the
| | | | desert between Alush
| | | | and Sinai. Robinson
| | | | places Rephidim in
| | | | ‘Wady esh Sheikh.’
| | | | (Rob. i. 121.)
| | | | Burckhardt (_Syria and
| | | | C._ 488), Stanley (S.
| | | | and P. 40-42), Ritter
| | | | (xiv. 740, 741), in
| | | | Wâdy Feiran.
| | | |
=RESEN= |Gen. x. 12 |_Not |-- |One of the cities built
| | identified_ | | by Asshur, ‘between
| | Between | | Nineveh and Calah.’
| | _Nimrúd_ and | | The ruins of a town
| | _Kuyunjik_ | | near the modern
| | | | village of Selamiyeh
| | | | would suit the
| | | | situation, but they
| | | | are not of any great
| | | | importance. (Smith’s
| | | | _Bible Dictionary_.)
| | | |
=REUBEN=, Tribe |Josh. xiii. | |-- |The eastern parts of
of | 15-23; | | | the country beyond
| Josephus 9 | | | Jordan, which belonged
| Ant. viii. 1 | | | to the Reubenites
| | | | and Gadites and to
| | | | the half tribes of
| | | | Manasseh. (9 Ant.
| | | | viii. 1.)
| | | |
=REZEPH= |2 Kings xix. |_Not |-- |There are several
| 12; Is. | identified_ | | towns of this name in
| xxxvii. 12 | Near | | Mesopotamia. One west
| | _Nisibin_ | | of the Euphrates on
| | | | the road from Racca
| | | | to Hŭms, the other
| | | | east of the Euphrates
| | | | near Bagdad; between
| | | | these two rests the
| | | | claim to the ancient
| | | | site. (Smith’s _Bible
| | | | Dictionary_.)
| | | |
=RHODUS= |1 Macc. xv. 23|_Island of |-- |The Island of Rhodes in
| | Rhodes_ | | the Mediterranean.
| | | |
=RIBLAH= |Num. xxxiv. |_Ribleh_ |-- |Probably the same as
| 11; 2 Kings | | | in 2 Kings xxiii. 33.
| xxiii. 33; | | | The present Ribleh,
| xxv. 6, 21; | | | on east bank of the
| Jer. xxxix. | | | Orontes, 35 miles
| 5, 6; lii. | | | north-east of Baalbek.
| 9, 10, 27 | | | (Conder’s _Handbook to
| | | | the Bible_.)
| | | |
=RIMMON= (1) |1 Chr. vi. 77 |_Rummâneh_ | 6 |A city of Zebulon
(R.V. | | | | = Remmon-methoar,
=RIMMONO=) | | | | (_Mem._ I. 363; Sh.
| | | | VI.)
| | | |
=RIMMON= (2) |Josh. xv. 32; |_Kh. Umm er |13 |Now ‘Umm er Rŭmâmîn.’
| xix. 7; 1 | Rŭmâmîn_? | | _See_ En-rimmon.
| Chr. iv. 32 | | | _Mem._ III.; Sh. XXIV.
| | | | (Conder’s _Handbook to
| | | | the Bible_.)
| | | |
=RIMMON PAREZ= |Num. xxxiii. |_Not |-- |One of the camping
(R.V. =RIMMON | 19, 20 | identified_ | | stations of the
PEREZ=) | | | | Israelites in the
| | | | Desert.
| | | |
=RIMMON= |Judg. xx. 45, |_Rŭmmôn_ |10 |The rock on which the
The Rock | 47; xxi. 13 | | | six hundred Benjamites
| | | | took refuge. Now the
| | | | rock and village
| | | | Rŭmmon, east of
| | | | Bethel. In Benjamin.
| | | |
=RISSAH= |Num. xxxiii. |_Not |-- |One of the camping
| 25 | identified_ | | stations of the
| | | | Israelites. It has
| | | | been considered (Winer
| | | | s.v.) identical
| | | | with Rasa in the
| | | | Peuting. Itiner.,
| | | | 32 Roman miles from
| | | | Ailah (ʾAkabeh) and
| | | | 203 miles south of
| | | | Jerusalem. No site has
| | | | been found to suit
| | | | this. (Smith’s _Bible
| | | | Dictionary_.)
| | | |
=RITHMAH= |Num. xxxiii. |_Not |-- |One of the camping
| 18 | identified_ | | stations of the
| | | | Israelites next to
| | | | Hazeroth.
| | | |
=RIVER OF |Num. xxxiv. |_Wâdy el |19 |Generally believed
EGYPT= (R.V. | 5; Josh. xv. | ʾArîsh_ | | to be ‘Wady el
(R.V. =BROOK OF| 4, 47; 1 | | | ʾArish’--the principal
EGYPT=) | Kings viii. | | | watercourse in the
| 65; 2 Kings | | | south country. It
| xxiv. 7; | | | rises south of ‘Kŭlʾat
| Is. xxvii. | | | en Nahl,’ and has
| 12; Ezek. | | | a run of over 120
| xlviii. 28; | | | miles, receiving many
| Judith i. 9 | | | branches on its way,
| | | | before it enters the
| | | | Mediterranean south of
| | | | Gaza.
| | | |
=ROGELIM= |2 Sam. xvii. |_Not |-- |Somewhere in Gad east
| 27; xix. 31 | identified_ | | of Jordan.
| | | |
=RUMAH= |2 Kings |_Not |-- |The position of
| xxiii. 36 | identified_ | | this place is very
| | | | doubtful; thought to
| | | | be either the ruined
| | | | village Rûmeh (Sh. V.)
| | | | north of Nazareth, or
| | | | el Ormeh (Sh. XV.)
| | | | (ʾArumah, Judg. ix.
| | | | 41), near Shechem.
| | | |
=ROME= |1 Macc. i. | | |
| 10; vii. 1; | | |
| viii. 17, | | |
| 19; xii. 1, | | |
| 3; xiv. 16, | | |
| 24; xv. 15; | | |
| 2 Macc. iv. | | |
| 11 | | |
| | | |
=SALCAH= or |Deut. iii. |_Salkhad_ |12 |A city in the extreme
=SALCHAH= | 10; Josh. | | | limits of Bashan. Now
(R.V. | xii. 5; | | | the present large
=SALECAH=) | xiii. 11; 1 | | | town called Salkhad,
| Chr. v. 11 | | | east of Bashan. For
| | | | various descriptions
| | | | see _Will. of Tyre_,
| | | | xvi. 8; Burckhardt
| | | | (_Syria_, Nov. 22,
| | | | 1810); Porter (_Five
| | | | Years in Damascus_,
| | | | ii. 176).
| | | |
=SALEM (1)= |Ps. lxxvi. 2 |_Jerusalem_ |-- |Jerusalem.
| | | |
=SALEM (2)= |Gen. xiv. 18 |_Not |-- |Jerusalem (Jewish
| | identified_ | | Commentators, and
| | | | Josephus, Ant. i.
| | | | 10, 2; vii. 3, 2).
| | | | According to the
| | | | Samaritans the same
| | | | as Shalem, which see.
| | | | Jerome states it was a
| | | | town near Scythopolis
| | | | (Beisan), and known in
| | | | his day as Salem. It
| | | | is otherwise regarded
| | | | not as a town but as a
| | | | personal name.
| | | |
=SALEM=, Valley |Judith iv. 4 |_Not |-- |Mentioned among the
| | identified_ | | places that were
| | | | fortified by the Jews
| | | | on the approach of
| | | | Holofernes (Judith iv.
| | | | 4).
| | | |
=SALT=, City of |Josh. xv. 62 |_Tell el |14 |Probably ‘Tell el
| | Milh_ (?)* | | Milh,’ (‘salt mound’)
| | | | east of ‘Beersheba’
| | | | (Conder). ‘Tell el
| | | | Milh’ is generally
| | | | identified with the
| | | | Biblical Moladah
| | | | (Josh. xv. 26); but
| | | | there is an objection
| | | | to this on account of
| | | | the guttural, which
| | | | is not likely to have
| | | | replaced the dental.
| | | | (_Mem._ III. 404, 415;
| | | | Sh. XXV.)
| | | |
=SALT SEA=, The |Gen. xiv. 3; |_Bahr Lût_ or |14 |Now called ‘The Dead
| Num. xxxiv. | _Baheirat | | Sea,’ ‘Bahr Lût,’ 53
| 3, 12; Deut. | Lût_ | | miles long by 8½ miles
| iii. 17; | | | broad. In Deut. iv.
| Josh. iii. | | | 49; 2 Kings xiv. 25
| 16; xii. 3; | | | Sea of the Plain--the
| xv. 2, 5; | | | Sea of Arabah (R.V.);
| xviii. 19 | | | Deut. iii. 17; Josh.
| | | | iii. 16; xii. 3 Sea of
| | | | the Plain--the Salt
| | | | Sea (R.V.); Joel ii.
| | | | 20; Ezek. xlvii. 18;
| | | | Zech. xiv. 8 the East
| | | | Sea--the East Sea
| | | | (R.V.); Ezek. xlvii.
| | | | 8 the Sea; 2 Esdr. v.
| | | | 7 the Sodomitish Sea.
| | | | (_See_ Smith’s _Bible
| | | | Dictionary_.)
| | | |
=SALT=, Valley |2 Sam. viii. | |21 |Very probably the
of | 13; 2 Kings | | | northern part of ‘Wâdy
| xiv. 7; 1 | | | Arabah,’ from where
| Chr. xviii. | | | the valley suddenly
| 12; 2 Chr. | | | dips 300 feet, and
| xxv. 11 | | | forms a plain reaching
| | | | to the south end of
| | | | the Salt Sea.
| | | |
=SAMARIA= |1 Kings xiii. |_es |10 |The present village and
| 32; xvi. 24, | Sebŭstiyeh_ | | ruins Sebŭstieh, west
| 28, 29, 32; | | | of Shechem. (_Mem._
| xviii. 2; | | | II. 211-214; Sh. XI.
| xx. 1, 10, | | | Robinson’s _Bib. Res._
| 17, 34, 43; | | | ii. 127-133; Stanley’s
| xxi. 1, 18; | | | _Sinai and Palestine_,
| xxii. 10, | | | 242-246; Smith’s
| 37, 38, 51; | | | _Bible Dictionary_.)
| 2 Kings i. | | | Mountains of Samaria,
| 2; ii. 25; | | | Jer. xxxi. 5; Amos
| iii. 1, 6; | | | iii. 9; iv. 1; vi. 1;
| v. 3; vi. | | | Ecclus. l. 26. The
| 19-25; vii. | | | hill Samaria, 1 Kings
| 1, 18; x. | | | xvi. 24.
| 1-36; xiii. | | |
| 1-13; xiv. | | |
| 14-23; xv. | | |
| 8-27; xvii. | | |
| 1-28; xviii. | | |
| 9-34; xxi. | | |
| 13; xxiii. | | |
| 18, 19; 2 | | |
| Chr. xviii. | | |
| 2, 9; xxii. | | |
| 9; xxv. 13, | | |
| 24; xxviii. | | |
| 8, 9, 15; | | |
| Ezra iv. 10, | | |
| 17; Neh. iv. | | |
| 2; Is. vii. | | |
| 9; viii. | | |
| 4; ix. 9; | | |
| x. 9-11; | | |
| xxxvi. 19; | | |
| Jer. xxiii. | | |
| 13; xxxi. | | |
| 5; xli. 5; | | |
| Ezek. xvi. | | |
| 46, 55; | | |
| xxiii. 4, | | |
| 33; Hos. | | |
| vii. 1; | | |
| viii. 5, 6; | | |
| x. 5, 7; | | |
| xiii. 16; | | |
| Am. iii. 9, | | |
| 12; iv. 1; | | |
| vi. 1; viii. | | |
| 14; Ob. 19; | | |
| Mic. i. 1, | | |
| 5, 6; 1 Esd. | | |
| ii. 16, 25; | | |
| Ecclus. l. | | |
| 26; Judith | | |
| i. 9; iv. 4; | | |
| 1 Macc. iii. | | |
| 10; v. 66; | | |
| x. 30, 38; | | |
| xi. 28, 34; | | |
| 2 Macc. xv. 1| | |
| | | |
=SAMOS= |1 Macc. xv. |_Samos_ |-- |An island near Ephesus,
| 23; Acts xx. | | | off the west coast of
| 15 | | | Asia Minor.
| | | |
=SAMPSAMES= |1 Macc. xv. 23|_Samsûn_ (?) |-- |Thought to be Samsûn,
| | | | on the coast of the
| | | | Black Sea, between
| | | | Sinope and Trebizond.
| | | |
=SANSANNAH= |Josh. xv. 31 |_Not |-- |Somewhere in the south
| | identified_ | | of Judah. Comparing
| | | | the parallel lists
| | | | of Josh. xv. 31
| | | | with Josh. xix. 5,
| | | | and 1 Chr. iv. 31.
| | | | Hazar-susim or Susah
| | | | takes the place of
| | | | Sansannah. Simsim,
| | | | near Gaza, has been
| | | | proposed.
| | | |
=SAPHIR= (R.V. |Micah i. 11 |_es Sûâfîr_ |13 |Described by Eusebius
=SHAPHIR=) | | | | and Jerome as being
| | | | ‘in the mountain
| | | | district between
| | | | Eleutheropolis and
| | | | Ascalon.’ Probably one
| | | | of the three villages
| | | | Suâfir, near Ashdod.
| | | | (_Mem._ II. 413; Sh.
| | | | XVI.)
| | | |
=SARID= |Josh. xix. |_Tell Shadûd_ |10 |A place mentioned
| 10, 12 | (?)* | | on the boundary of
| | | | Zebulon. The Syriac
| | | | version reads ‘Asdod,’
| | | | and the LXX Seddouk.
| | | | Probably ‘Tell
| | | | Shadûd,’ on the north
| | | | edge of the plain of
| | | | Esdraelon, 4½ miles
| | | | west of ‘Chisloth
| | | | Tabor.’ (_Mem._ II.
| | | | 70; Sh. VIII.)--Conder.
| | | |
=SCHEDIA= |3 Macc. iv. 11| |-- |
| | | |
=SCYTHOPOLIS= |Judith iii. |_Beisân_ |10 |Beth-shean, which see.
| 10; 2 Macc. | | | Sh. IX.
| xii. 29, 30 | | |
| | | |
=SECACAH= |Josh. xv. 61 |_Kh. ed |14 |Perhaps the ruin ed
| | Dikkeh_ (?)* | | Dikkeh, also called
| | | | Kh. es Sikkeh, ‘ruin
| | | | of the path,’ 2 miles
| | | | south of Bethany.
| | | | Uncertain. (Conder’s
| | | | _Handbook to the
| | | | Bible_.) Was one
| | | | of the six cities
| | | | of Judah in the
| | | | Wilderness.
| | | |
=SECHU= (R.V. |1 Sam. xix. 22|_Kh. |14 |Probably ‘Kh.
=SECU=) | | Shuweikeh_* | | Shuweikeh,’
| | | | immediately south of
| | | | ‘Beeroth.’ (_Mem._
| | | | III. 52, 126; Sh.
| | | | XVII.)--Conder.
| | | |
=SEIR=, Mount |Gen. xiv. | |21,|The mountainous range
(1) | 6; xxxii. | |28 | of Petra.
| 3; xxxiii. | | |
| 14, 16; | | |
| xxxvi. 8, | | |
| 9, 20, 30; | | |
| Num. xxiv. | | |
| 18; Deut. | | |
| 1, 2, 44; | | |
| ii. 1-29; | | |
| xxxiii. 2; | | |
| Josh. xi. | | |
| 17; xii. 7; | | |
| xxiv. 4; | | |
| Judg. v. 4; | | |
| 1 Chr. i. | | |
| 38; iv. 42; | | |
| 2 Chr. xx. | | |
| 10-23; xxv. | | |
| 11, 14; Isa. | | |
| xxi. 11; | | |
| Ezek. xxv. | | |
| 8; xxxv. 2-15| | |
| | | |
=SEIR=, Mount |Josh. xv. 10 | |14 |Probably the ridge
(2) | | | | north of Kh. Erma
| | | | (Kirjath-jearim).
| | | | (Conder’s _Handbook to
| | | | the Bible_, p. 259;
| | | | Smith’s _Dictionary to
| | | | the Bible_.)
| | | |
=SEIRATH= (R.V. |Judg. iii. 26 |_Not |-- |In Mount Ephraim.
=SEIRAH=) | | identified_ | |
| | | |
=SELA= and |2 Kings xiv. |_Petra_ |28 |Judges i. 36, ‘The
=SELAH= (R.V. | 7; Isa. xvi. | | | rock,’ LXX. reads
=SELA= or | 1; Obd. 3 | | | Petra. Now Petra
=PETRA=) | | | | ‘in the midst of
| | | | Mount Seir, in the
| | | | neighbourhood of Mount
| | | | Hor’ (Josephus Ant.
| | | | iv. 4, 7).
| | | |
=SELA- |1 Sam. xxiii. |_Wâdy Malâky_*|14 |A rock in the
HAMMAHLEKOTH= | 28 | | | wilderness of Maon.
| | | | Now ‘Wâdy Malâky,’
| | | | east of Maon. (_Mem._
| | | | III. 314; Sh.
| | | | XXI.)--Conder.
| | | |
=SELEUCIA= |1 Macc. xi. 8 |_es |-- |The seaport of Antioch.
| | Suweidiyeh_ | |
| | | |
=SENAAH= |Ez. ii. 35; |_Not |-- |Eusebius and
| Neh. vii. 38 | identified_ | | Jerome mention a
| | | | Magdal-Senna, 7 miles
| | | | north of Jericho
| | | | (Onomasticon). Neh.
| | | | iii. 3, Has-senaah.
| | | |
=SENEH=, The |1 Sam. xiv. 4 |_Wâdy |14 |The scene of Jonathan’s
Rock | | Suweinît_ | | adventure on the south
| | | | side of Wady Suweinît,
| | | | in which word the name
| | | | seems to survive.
| | | |
=SENIR= |1 Chr. v. 23; |_Mount Hermon_|-- |The Amorite name for
| Ezek. xxvii. | | | Mount Hermon, which
| 5 | | | see.
| | | |
=SEPHARVAIM= |2 Kings xvii. |_Sippara_ |-- |The town of Sippara, on
| 24; xviii. | | | the Euphrates above
| 34; xix. 13; | | | Babylon.
| Is. xxxvi. | | |
| 19; xxxvii. | | |
| 13 | | |
| | | |
=SEPHELA= |1 Macc. xii. | |-- |In Deut. i. 7; Josh.
| 38 | | | ix. 1; x. 40; xi. 2,
| | | | 16; xii. 8; xv. 33;
| | | | Judg. i. 9; 1 Kings
| | | | x. 27; 1 Chr. xxvii.
| | | | 28; 2 Chr. i. 15; ix.
| | | | 27; xxvi. 10; xxviii.
| | | | 18; Jer. xvii. 26;
| | | | xxxii. 44, xxxiii.
| | | | 13; Obad. 19; Zech.
| | | | vii. 7, rendered ‘the
| | | | vale,’ ‘the valley,’
| | | | ‘the plain,’ ‘the
| | | | low plains,’ and
| | | | ‘the low country.’
| | | | (Hash-Shefelâh). The
| | | | lower hills between
| | | | the high range and
| | | | plain of Judah. _See_
| | | | Conder’s _Handbook to
| | | | the Bible_, p. 302.
| | | |
=SHAALABBIN= |Josh. xix. 42 |_Selbît_ (?) |14 |Mentioned with
| | | | ‘Aijalon’ and
| | | | ‘Beth-shemesh,’
| | | | allotted to Dan.
| | | | Probably the present
| | | | village ‘Selbît,’
| | | | south-east of Lydda,
| | | | near ‘Aijalon.’
| | | | (_Mem._ III. 52; Sh.
| | | | XVII.)
| | | |
=SHAALBIM= |Judg. i. 35; | |-- |_See_ Shaalabbin.
| 1 Kings iv. 9| | | Another form of name.
| | | |
=SHAARAIM= |Josh. xv. 36; |_Kh. Sʾaîreh_ |14 |Mentioned in the group
| 1 Sam. xvii. | (?) | | of towns allotted to
| 52; 1 Chr. | | | Judah as being in ‘the
| iv. 31 | | | valley’ (Shefelah)
| | | | along with ‘Adullam’
| | | | Socoh, etc. Probably
| | | | the ruins ‘Sʾaîreh,’
| | | | west of Beit ʾAtâb
| | | | (Etam). Josh. xv.
| | | | 36 ‘Sharaim’ (R.V.
| | | | ‘Shaaraim’). (_Mem._
| | | | III.; Sh. XVII.)
| | | |
=SHAHAZIMAH= |Josh. xix. 22 |_Not |-- |One of the towns
(R.V. | | identified_ | | allotted to Issachar.
=SHAHAZUMAH=) | | | | Somewhere between
| | | | Mount Tabor and the
| | | | Jordan.
| | | |
=SHALEM= |Gen. xxxiii. |_Sâlim_ |10 |The village Sâlim, 4
| 18 | | | miles east of Shechem.
| | | | (_Mem._ II. 230; Sh.
| | | | XII.) R.V. has ‘in
| | | | peace’ for Shalem,
| | | | which appears only in
| | | | margin.
| | | |
=SHALIM=, The |1 Sam. ix. 4 |_Not |-- |The district through
Land of (R.V. | | identified_ | | which Saul passed
=SHAALIM=) | | | | in search of his
| | | | father’s asses,
| | | | _i.e._, ‘the land of
| | | | caverns,’ thought to
| | | | be identical with the
| | | | land of Shual, which
| | | | see.
| | | |
=SHALISHA=, |1 Sam. ix. 4 |_Not |-- |Next to the land
Land of (R.V. | | identified_ | | of Shalim. _See_
=SHALISHAH=) | | | | Baal-shalisha.
| | | |
=SHALLECHETH=, |1 Chr. xxvi. |_Not |14 |Has been thought
The Gate | 16 | identified_ | | identical with the
| | | | ‘Bab Silsileh’ in the
| | | | west wall of the Haram
| | | | area at Jerusalem,
| | | | but the names have no
| | | | connection.
| | | |
=SHAMIR= (1) |Josh. xv. 48 |_Kh. Sômerah_ |14 |Mentioned in the group
| | (?)* | | of ‘Jattir,’ ‘Socoh,’
| | | | ‘Debir,’ etc. Probably
| | | | the ruin Sômerah, west
| | | | of Debir. (_Mem._ III.
| | | | 262; Sh. XX.)--Conder.
| | | |
=SHAMIR= (2) |Judg. x. 1, 2 |_Not |-- |In Mount Ephraim.
| | identified_ | |
| | | |
=SHAPHER=, Mount|Num. xxxiii. |_Not |-- |One of the camping
| 23 | identified_ | | stations of the
| | | | Israelites in the
| | | | desert.
| | | |
=SHARON= |1 Chr. v. 16 |_Not |-- |Either a town or a
| | identified_ | | district in the
| | | | neighbourhood of
| | | | Gilead and Bashan,
| | | | east of Jordan.
| | | | Possibly a synonym for
| | | | the Mishor. (Stanley,
| | | | _Sinai & P._ App. § 7.)
| | | |
=SHARON=, Plain |1 Chr. xxvii. | |-- |The great and fertile
of | 29; Is. | | | plain extending from
| xxxiii. 9; | | | near Joppa on the
| xxxv. 2; | | | south to Mount Carmel
| lxv. 10; | | | on the north, and
| Cant. ii. 1 | | | bounded on the west
| | | | by the Mediterranean,
| | | | and on the east by the
| | | | hills of Samaria, etc.
| | | |
=SHARUHEN= |Josh. xix. 6 |_Tell esh |13 |A town allotted to
| | Sherîʾah_ | | Simeon in the south.
| | (?)* | | (?) Another name for
| | | | ‘Shilhim’ of Josh.
| | | | xv. 32, and Shaaraim
| | | | of 1 Chr. iv. 31.
| | | | Very probably the
| | | | large ruin ‘Tell
| | | | esh Sherîʾah,’ 12
| | | | miles north-west of
| | | | Beersheba. (_Mem._
| | | | III. 399; Sh. XXIV.)
| | | |
=SHAVEH=, |Gen. xiv. |_Not |-- |In the neighbourhood of
Valley | 17; 2 Sam. | identified_ | | Jerusalem.
of (R.V. | xviii. 18 | | |
=SHAVEH=, Vale | | | |
of, or ‘King’s | | | |
Vale’) | | | |
| | | |
=SHAVEH |Gen. xiv. 5 |_Not |-- |A valley or plain near
KIRIATHAIM= | | identified_ | | Kiriathaim.
| | | |
=SHEARING- |2 Kings x. | |-- |Beth-achath, which see.
HOUSE=, The | 12, 14 | | |
| | | |
=SHEBA= |Josh. xix. 2 |_Tell es |13 |Allotted to Simeon,
| | Sebʾa_ (?) | | between Beer-sheba and
| | | | Moladah. Very probably
| | | | ‘Tell es Sebʾa,’ 2½
| | | | miles east of Bir es
| | | | Sebʾa. (_Mem._ III.;
| | | | Sh. XXIV.)--Conder.
| | | |
=SHEBAH= |Gen. xxvi. 33 | |-- |_See_ Beer-sheba.
(R.V. =SHIBAH=)| | | |
| | | |
=SHEBAM= |Num. xxxii. 3 | |-- |Mentioned between
(R.V. =SEBAM= | | | | ‘Elealeh’ and ‘Nebo.’
or =SIBMAH=) | | | | Another form for
| | | | ‘Shibmah’ and ‘Sibmah.’
| | | |
=SHEBARIM= |Josh. vii. 5 |_Not |-- |In the neighbourhood of
| | identified_ | | ‘Ai.’
| | | |
=SHECHEM= |Gen. xii. 6; |_Nablûs_ |10 |The present city
| xxxiii. 18; | | | Nablus, Neapolis, in
| xxxv. 4; | | | the valley between
| xxxvii. 12, | | | Mounts Ebal and
| 14; Josh. | | | Gerizim. One of the
| xvii. 7; xx. | | | six cities of refuge.
| 7; xxi. 21; | | | (_Mem._ II. 293; Sh.
| xxiv. 1, 25, | | | XI.)
| 32; Judg. | | |
| viii. 31; | | |
| ix. 1-57; | | |
| xxi. 19; 1 | | |
| Kings xii. | | |
| 1, 25; 1 | | |
| Chr. vi. 67; | | |
| vii. 28; 2 | | |
| Chr. x. 1; | | |
| Ps. lx. 6; | | |
| cviii. 7; | | |
| Jer. xli. 5 | | |
| | | |
=SHEEP GATE=, |Neh. iii. 1, |_Not |-- |One of the gates of
The | 32; xii. 39 | identified_ | | Jerusalem, rebuilt by
| | | | Nehemiah.
| | | |
=SHEN= |1 Sam. vii. 12|_Not |-- |Mentioned with
| | identified_ | | Mizpah. ‘Between
| | | | Mizpah and Shen’ the
| | | | stone Eben-ezer was
| | | | set up by Samuel,
| | | | commemorating the rout
| | | | of the Philistines.
| | | | Three miles west of
| | | | Jerusalem and 1½ miles
| | | | north of ‘ʾAin Karim’
| | | | is Deir Yesin. This
| | | | will not suit if the
| | | | identification of Deir
| | | | Aban with Eben-ezer be
| | | | right; which see.
| | | |
=SHEMA= |Josh. xv. 26 |_Not |-- |Named between ʾAmam and
| | identified_ | | Moladah--in the south.
| | | | Allotted to Judah. In
| | | | Josh. xix. 2, Sheba
| | | | takes the place of
| | | | Shema.
| | | |
=SHENIR= |Deut. iii. 9; | |-- |Another form of Senir;
| Cant. iv. 8 | | | which see.
| | | |
=SHEPHAM= |Num. xxxiv. |_Not |-- |A place mentioned as on
| 10, 11 | identified_ | | the eastern boundary
| | | | of the Promised Land,
| | | | between Hazor-enan
| | | | and Riblah. Somewhere
| | | | north of Riblah.
| | | |
=SHIBMAH= (R.V. |Num. xxxii. 38| |-- |= Sibmah, which see.
=SIBMAH=) | | | |
| | | |
=SHICRON= (R.V. |Josh. xv. 11 |_Not |-- |Between Mount Baalah
=SHIKKERON=) | | identified_ | | (not identified)
| | | | and Ekron (Akir),
| | | | (Sh. XVI.), in the
| | | | north-west corner of
| | | | Judah. (_Mem._ II.
| | | | 417; Sh. XVI.)
| | | |
=SHIHON= (R.V. |Josh. xix. 19 |_ʾAyûn es | 6 |‘ʾAyûn es Shʾaîn,’
=SHION=) | | Shʾaîn_ (?)* | | north of Tabor. This
| | | | site appears to
| | | | represent the Seon
| | | | of the Onomasticon
| | | | mentioned by Jerome
| | | | as near Tabor, and
| | | | identified by him with
| | | | Shihon of Issachar,
| | | | an identification
| | | | possibly correct. In
| | | | the Talmud Shihin is
| | | | mentioned as near
| | | | Sepphoris. (_Mem._ I.
| | | | 370; Sh. VI.)--Conder.
| | | |
=SHIHOR OF |1 Chr. xiii. |_W. el ʾArîsh_|-- |‘The Brook of Egypt’
EGYPT= | 5; Num. | | | (R.V.) In Num. xxxiv.
| xxxiv. 5; | | | 5, River of Egypt
| Josh. xiii. 3| | | (A.V.); Brook of Egypt
| | | | (R.V.); Josh. xiii. 3,
| | | | Sihor; Shihor (R.V.)
| | | | Wâdy el ʾArîsh. _See_
| | | | River of Egypt.
| | | |
=SHIHOR-LIBNATH=|Josh. xix. 26 |_Nahr | 6 |One of the names on
| | Nʾamein_? | | the boundary of
| | | | Asher--rendered by
| | | | some ‘River of Glass.’
| | | | Thought to be the
| | | | Belus (Nahr Nʾamein S.
| | | | of ʾAkka) from whose
| | | | bed, according to
| | | | tradition, the fine
| | | | sand was obtained by
| | | | the Phœnicians for the
| | | | glass they first made.
| | | | (Pliny, _H. N._, Book
| | | | xxxvi. ch. 26). _Mem._
| | | | I. 268; Sh. V.
| | | |
=SHILHIM= |Josh. xv. 32 |_Not |-- |One of the cities in
| | identified_ | | the southern portion
| | | | of Judah, named
| | | | between Lebaoth and
| | | | ʾAin. In the parallel
| | | | lists of Josh. xix.
| | | | 6 Sharuhen is given,
| | | | and in 1 Chr. iv. 31
| | | | Shaaraim, which see.
| | | |
=SHILOAH=, The |Is. viii. 6; | |-- |Siloam and Siloah.
Waters of | 2 Chr. xxxii.| | |
| | | |
=SHILOH= |Josh. xviii. |_Seilûn_ |10 |Now a ruined town
| 1-10; xix. | | | called Seilûn, about
| 51; xxi. 2; | | | midway between Bethel
| xxii. 9, | | | and Mt. Girizim, near
| 12; Judg. | | | the ancient highway
| xviii. 31; | | | from Jerusalem to
| xxi. 12-21; | | | Shechem and the North.
| 1 Sam. i. | | | _Mem._ II. 367-370;
| 3, 9, 24; | | | Sh. XIV.
| ii. 14; iii. | | |
| 21; iv. 3, | | |
| 12; xiv. 3; | | |
| 1 Kings ii. | | |
| 27; xiv. | | |
| 2-4; Ps. | | |
| lxxviii. | | |
| 60; Jer. | | |
| vii. 12, 14; | | |
| xxvi. 6, 9; | | |
| xli. 5 | | |
| | | |
=SHIMRON= |Josh. xi. 1; |_Semûnieh_ | 6 |Called in the Talmud
| xix. 15 | | | (Jerus, Megillah, cap.
| | | | 1) Semûnieh--now a
| | | | small village 5 miles
| | | | west of Nazareth.
| | | | _Mem._ I. 339; Sh. V.
| | | |
=SHIMRON-MERON= |Josh. xii. 20 |_Not |-- |Uncertain whether this
| | identified_ | | name refers to the
| | | | same place as Shimron
| | | | (Semunieh). The old
| | | | Jewish traveller
| | | | Hap-Parchi fixes it at
| | | | two hours east of En
| | | | Gannim (Jenîn), south
| | | | of Mount Gilboa, at
| | | | a village called in
| | | | his day ‘Dar Meron.’
| | | | (Asher’s _Benjamin of
| | | | Tudela_, II. 434).
| | | |
=SHINAR= (The |Gen. x. 10; | |-- |‘The ancient name of
Land of) | xi. 2; xiv. | | | the great alluvial
| 1; Is. xi. | | | tract through which
| 11; Dan. i. | | | the Tigris and
| 2; Zech. v. | | | Euphrates pass before
| 11 | | | reaching the sea. The
| | | | tract known in later
| | | | times as Chaldea or
| | | | Babylonia.’ Smith’s
| | | | _Bible Dictionary_.
| | | |
=SHITTIM= (R.V. |Num. xxv. 1; |_Ghor es |14 |= Abel-shittim, which
=VALLEY OF | Josh. ii. | Seisebân_ | | see.
ACACIAS=) | 1; iii. 1; | | |
| Mich. vi. 5; | | |
| Joel iii. 18 | | |
| | | |
=SHOCO= |2 Chr. xi. 7 |_Kh. |-- |A variation of the name
| | Shuweikeh_ | | Socoh (1), which see.
| | | |
=SHOCHO= |2 Chr. | |-- |_See_ Socoh (1)
| xxviii. 18 | | |
| | | |
=SHOCHOH= |1 Sam. xvii. 1| |-- |_See_ Socoh (1)
| | | |
=SHOPHAN= (R.V. |Num. xxxii. 35|_Not |-- |One of the fortified
=ATROTH- | | identified_ | | towns on the East of
SHOPHAN=) | | | | Jordan.
| | | |
=SHUAL=, |1 Sam. xiii. |_Not |-- |Near Ophrah (1), which
The Land of | 17 | identified_ | | see.
| | | |
=SHUNEM= |Josh. xix. |_Sôlam_ |10 |A city of Issachar,
| 18; 1 Sam. | | | mentioned with
| xxviii. 4; 1 | | | Jezreel, Chesulloth,
| Kings i. 3, | | | &c. Now the village
| 15; ii. 17, | | | Sôlam, north of
| 21, 22; 2 | | | Jezreel. _Mem._ II.
| Kings iv. 8, | | | 87; Sh. IX.
| 12, 25, 36 | | |
| | | |
=SHUR= (Desert |Gen. xvi. | |-- |Between Egypt and
of) | 7; xx. 1; | | | Philistia.
| xxv. 18; Ex. | | |
| xv. 22; 1 | | |
| Sam. xv. 7; | | |
| xxvii. 8 | | |
| | | |
=SHUSHAN= |Esth. iii. |_Susa_ |-- |Susa, one of the chief
| 15; iv. 16; | | | cities of Persia. Now
| viii. 15; | | | identified with the
| Dan. viii. 2 | | | ruins of Susa on the
| | | | River Shapur. Smith’s
| | | | _Bible Dictionary_.
| | | |
=SIBMAH= |Josh. xiii. |_Sûmia_ (?)* |15 |A town on the East
| 19; Is. xvi. | | | of Jordan, also
| 8, 9; Jer. | | | called Shibmah (Num.
| xlviii. 32 | | | xxxii. 38) and Shebam
| | | | (Num. xxxii. 3).
| | | | Very probably the
| | | | important site Sûmia,
| | | | 2½ miles west of
| | | | Heshbon. ‘Hardly 500
| | | | paces from Heshbon’
| | | | (Onomasticon). See
| | | | _Quarterly Statement_,
| | | | p. 9, 1882.--Conder’s
| | | | _Heth and Moab_.
| | | |
=SIBRAIM= |Ezek. xlvii. |_Not |-- |Mentioned as being
| 16 | identified_ | | between Berothah and
| | | | Hazar-hatticon, and
| | | | as lying between the
| | | | boundary of Damascus,
| | | | and that of Hamath.
| | | |
=SICHEM= (R.V. |Gen. xii. 6 | |-- |Shechem, which see.
=SHECHEM=) | | | |
| | | |
=SICYON= |1 Macc. xv. 23|_Vasilika_ |-- |A city in the Gulf of
| | | | Corinth.
| | | |
=SIDE= |1 Macc. xv. 23| |-- |In Pamphylia, on the
| | | | sea coast east of
| | | | Adalia.
| | | |
=SIDDIM=, Vale |Gen. xiv. 3, | |-- |The Jordan Valley and
of | 8, 10 | | | Dead Sea.
| | | |
=SIDON=, |Gen. x. 15, |_Saida_ | 2 |The present town Saida
=ZIDON= | 19; 2 Esd. | | | on the coast between
(R.V. =ZIDON=) | i. 11; | | | Beirut and Tyre. _See_
| Judith ii. | | | Zidon.
| 28; 1 Macc. | | |
| v. 15 | | |
| | | |
=SIHOR= |Josh. xiii. | |-- |_See_ Shihor.
| 3; Jer. ii. | | |
| 18; Is. | | |
| xxiii. 3 | | |
| | | |
=SILOAH=, The |Neh. iii. 15; |_Birket |14 |= Siloam. One of
Pool of (R.V. | Is. viii. 6 | Silwan_ | | the pools south of
=SHELAH= or | | | | Jerusalem. Birket
=SHILOAH=) | | | | Silwan. (_Jerusalem_
| | | | Vol.; Sh. XVII.)
| | | |
=SIMEON=, Tribe |Josh. xix.; | |-- |‘The lot of Simeon
of | Josephus v. | | | included that part of
| Ant. i. 22 | | | Idumea which bordered
| | | | upon Egypt and Arabia’
| | | | (5 Ant. i. 22.)
| | | |
=SIN=, |Num. xxxiii. | |-- |Between Elim and Sinai.
Wilderness of | 11-14; Exod. | | |
| xvi. 1; | | |
| xvii. 1 | | |
| | | |
=SINAI=, Mount |Ex. xvi. 1; |_Jebel Mûsa_ |-- |Generally identified
| xix. 1-23; | (_Râs | | with Jebel Mûsa, the
| xxiv. 16; | Sûfsâfeh_) | | second highest granite
| xxxi. 18; | | | peak in the Peninsula.
| xxxiv. 2, | | | _See_ Smith’s _Bible
| 4, 29, 32; | | | Dictionary_.
| Lev. vii. | | |
| 38; xxv. 1; | | |
| xxvi. 46; | | |
| xxvii. 34; | | |
| Num. i. 1, | | |
| 19; iii. 1, | | |
| 4, 14; ix. | | |
| 1, 5; x. 12; | | |
| xxvi. 64; | | |
| xxviii. 6; | | |
| xxxiii. 15, | | |
| 16; Deut. | | |
| xxxiii. 2; | | |
| Judg. v. 5; | | |
| Neh. ix. 13; | | |
| Ps. lxviii. | | |
| 8, 17; 2 | | |
| Esdr. iii. | | |
| 17; xiv. 4; | | |
| Judith v. | | |
| 14; Eccles. | | |
| xlviii. 7 | | |
| | | |
=SINAI=, Desert |Ex. xix. 1; | |-- |The desert round Jebel
of (R.V. | Num. xxxiii. | | | Mûsa.
=SINAI=, | 16 | | |
Wilderness of) | | | |
| | | |
=SION= |1 Esd. | |-- |= Zion.
| viii. 81, | | |
| etc., very | | |
| frequently | | |
| mentioned in | | |
| the Apocrypha| | |
| | | |
=SION=, Mount |2 Esd. xiii. | |-- |
| 35; 1 Macc. | | |
| iv. 37, 60, | | |
| v. 54; vi. | | |
| 48, 62; vii. | | |
| 33; x. 11; | | |
| xiv. 27 | | |
| | | |
=SION=, Mount |Deut. iv. 48; |_Jebel esh |-- |One of the names of
| Ps. cxxxiii. | Sheikh_ | | Mount Hermon, thought
| 3 | | | to be a clerical error
| | | | for Sirion; which see.
| | | |
=SIPHMOTH= |1 Sam. xxx. 28|_Not |-- |In the south of Judah
| | identified_ | | the resort of David.
| | | |
=SIRAH=, The |2 Sam. iii. 26|_ʾAin Sârah_ |14 |The present ʾAin Sârah,
Well of (R.V. | | | | near Hebron. _Mem._
=SIRAH=, Well | | | | III. 314; Sh. XXI.
or Cistern of) | | | |
| | | |
=SIRION= |Deut. iii. 9; | | 3 |The Zidonian name for
| Ps. xxix. 6 | | | Mount Hermon, which
| | | | see.
| | | |
=SITNAH=, Well |Gen. xxvi. 21 |_Not |20 |The second of the two
of | | identified_ | | wells dug by Isaac in
(R.V. =ENMITY=,| | | | the valley of Gerar.
Well of) | | | |
| | | |
=SOCOH= (1), In |Josh. xv. 35 |_Kh. |14 |Sochoh (1 Kings iv.
the Valley | | Shuweikeh_ | | 10), Shochoh (1 Sam.
| | | | xvii. 1), Shoco (2
| | | | Chr. xi. 7), Shocho (2
| | | | Chr. xxviii. 18). Now
| | | | represented by ‘Kh.
| | | | Shuweikeh,’ on the
| | | | brink of the ‘Valley
| | | | of Elah.’ (_Mem._
| | | | III. 53; Sh. XVII.)
| | | | Robinson (B. R. ii.
| | | | 21.)
| | | |
=SOCOH= (2), In |Josh. xv. 48 |_Kh. |14 |Named in the group ‘in
the Mountains | | Shuweikeh_ | | the mountains,’ with
| | | | ʾAttir (Yuttah), Debir
| | | | (edh Dhaherîyeh),
| | | | etc. Now the ruins
| | | | Shuweikeh, south-west
| | | | of Yutta. (_Mem._ III.
| | | | 404, 410; Sh. XXV.)
| | | | Robinson (B. R. i.
| | | | 494.)
| | | |
=SODOM= |Gen. x. 19; |_Not |-- |One of the cities
| xiii. 10-13; | identified_ | | of the plain, near
| xiv. 2-22; | | | Zoar.--(Smith’s _Bible
| xviii. | | | Dictionary_.)
| 16-26; xix. | | |
| 1, 4, 24, | | |
| 28; Deut. | | |
| xxix. 23; | | |
| xxxii. 32; | | |
| Is. i. 9, | | |
| 10; iii. 9; | | |
| xiii. 19; | | |
| Jer. xxiii. | | |
| 14; xlix. | | |
| 18; l. 40; | | |
| Lam. iv. 6; | | |
| Ezek. xvi. | | |
| 46-56; Am. | | |
| iv. 11; | | |
| Zeph. ii. 9; | | |
| 2 Esd. ii. 8 | | |
| | | |
=SODOMITISH |2 Esdr. v. 7 | |-- |The Salt Sea; which see.
SEA=, The | | | |
| | | |
=SOREK=, Valley |Judg. xvi. 4 |_Wâdy Sŭrâr_ |13,|Now Wâdy Sŭrâr, on the
of | | |14 | north side of which
| | | | is the ruin Sŭrîk.
| | | | This valley has its
| | | | source near ‘Beeroth,’
| | | | and in its course
| | | | of 44 miles passes
| | | | Hazor, Beth-shemesh,
| | | | Makkedah, Jabneel,
| | | | and enters the sea 8½
| | | | miles south of Jaffa.
| | | | (_Mem._ III. 53; Sh.
| | | | XVII.)
| | | |
=SPARTA= |1 Macc. xiv. | |-- |
| 16 | | |
| | | |
=SPAIN= |1 Macc. viii. | |-- |
| 3 | | |
| | | |
=SUCCOTH= (1) |Gen. xxxiii. |_Tell |10 |Probably Tell Darʾala,
| 17; Josh. | Darʾala_ (?) | | on the east of the
| xiii. 27; | | | Jordan Valley, East of
| Judg. viii. | | | the Jordan (Merrill),
| 5-16; 1 | | | pp. 385-388; Conder’s
| Kings vii. | | | _Heth & Moab_, p. 177.
| 46; 2 Chr. | | | The Talmud is the
| iv. 17; | | | authority for this
| Ps. lx. 6; | | | identification.
| cviii. 7 | | |
| | | |
=SUCCOTH= (2) |Ex. xii. 37; |_Not |-- |The first camping place
| xiii. 20; | identified_ | | of the Israelites on
| Num. xxxiii. | | | leaving Egypt.
| 5, 6 | | |
| | | |
=SUD=, River |Baruch i. 4 |_Not |-- |A river somewhere near
| | identified_ | | Babylon.
| | | |
=SUR= |Judith ii. 28 |_Not |-- |On the sea coast of
| | identified_ | | Phœnicia--not Tyre.
| | | |
=SUR=, The Gate |2 Kings xi. 6 |_Not |-- |In 2 Chr. xxiii. 5,
of | | identified_ | | the King’s House at
| | | | Jerusalem.
| | | |
=SYENE=, or |Ezek. xxix. |_Assúân_ |-- |In Egypt. Mentioned
=SEVENEH= | 10; xxx. 6 | | | with Migdol. R.V.
(R.V. | | | | ‘tower of Seveneh;’
=SEVENEH=) | | | | margin, ‘from Migdol
| | | | to Seveneh.’
| | | |
=SYRIA= |Judg. x. | |-- |The country north and
| 6; 2 Sam. | | | north-east of Damascus.
| viii. 6, | | |
| 12; xv. 8, | | |
| etc., very | | |
| frequently | | |
| mentioned | | |
| | | |
=TAANACH= |Josh. xii. |_Tʾannuk_ |10 |Between 3 and 4 Roman
| 21; xvii. | | | miles from Legio
| 11; xxi. 25; | | | (Lejjun)--Onomasticon.
| Judg. i. | | | Now the village
| 27; v. 19; | | | Tʾannuk, on the
| 1 Kings iv. | | | southern edge
| 12; 1 Chr. | | | of the plain of
| vii. 29 | | | Esdraelon.--Robinson,
| | | | ii. 316, 329; Van
| | | | de Velde, i. 358;
| | | | Conder’s _Handbook to
| | | | the Bible_, p. 285.
| | | | (_Mem._ II. 68; Sh.
| | | | VIII.)
| | | |
=TAANATH-SHILOH=|Josh. xvi. 6 |_Tʾana_ |10 |Now the ruin of Tʾana,
| | | | east of Nablus, on
| | | | the boundary between
| | | | Ephraim and Manasseh.
| | | | (_Mem._ II. 232; Sh.
| | | | XII.)--Van de Velde.
| | | |
=TABBATH= |Judg. vii. 22 |_Not |10 |Appears to have lain
| | identified_ | | west of Jordan, near
| | | | Abel-meholah, which
| | | | see.
| | | |
=TABERAH= |Deut. ix. 22; |_Not |-- |The name of a place
| Num. xi. 3 | identified_ | | in the wilderness of
| | | | Paran.
| | | |
=TABOR= |1 Chr. vi. 77 |_Iksâl_ |-- |= Chisloth-tabor; which
| | | | see.
| | | |
=TABOR=, Mount |Josh. xix. |_Jebel et Tôr_| 6 |Now called Jebel et
| 22; Judg. | | | Tôr. Robinson’s
| iv. 6, 12, | | | _Researches_, ii. 353.
| 14; viii. | | | (_Mem._ I. 365, 367;
| 18; Ps. | | | Sh. VI.)
| lxxxix. 12; | | |
| Jer. xlvi. | | |
| 18; Hos. v. 1| | |
| | | |
=TABOR=, The |1 Sam. x. 3 |_Not |-- |‘The Oak or Terebinth
Plain of (R.V. | | identified_ | | of Tabor’ is generally
=TABOR=, | | | | thought the correct
The Oak or | | | | translation.
Terebinth of) | | | |
| | | |
=TADMOR=, In |1 Kings ix. |_Tadmûr_ |-- |Palmyra, in the desert,
the Wilderness | 18; 2 Chr. | | | between Damascus and
(R.V. =TAMAR=) | viii. 4 | | | the confluence of
| | | | the Khabour with the
| | | | Euphrates. See _The
| | | | Ruins of Palmyra_, by
| | | | Robert Wood, published
| | | | in 1753; _Decline and
| | | | Fall of the Roman
| | | | Empire_, 11th chap.,
| | | | Gibbon; Porter’s
| | | | _Handbook for Syria
| | | | and Palestine_, pp.
| | | | 543-549.
| | | |
=TAHATH= |Num. xxxiii. |_Not |-- |One of the camping
| 26 | identified_ | | stations of the
| | | | Israelites in the
| | | | desert.
| | | |
=TAHPANHES= |Jer. xliii. |} | |
| 7, 8, 9; |} | |
| xliv. 1; |} | |A town of Lower Egypt
| xlvi. 14 |} | | near the eastern
| |} _Tell | | border, Tell Defenneh.
=TEHAPHNEHES= |Ezek. xxx. 18 |} Defenneh_ |-- | Smith’s _Bible
| |} | | Dictionary_.
=TAHAPANES= |Jer. ii. 16 |} | |
| |} | |
=TAPHNES= |Judith i. 9 |} | |
| | | |
=TAHTIM-HODSHI=,|2 Sam. xxiv. 6|_Kades_ (?)* |-- |Between Gilead and
The Land of | | | | Dan-jaan. According
| | | | to the LXX. ‘Kadesh
| | | | of the Hittites,’ now
| | | | the ruin _Kades_,
| | | | near Tell Neby
| | | | Mendeh.--Conder.
| | | |
=TAMAR= |Ezek. xlvii. |_Not |-- |Somewhere on the
| 19; xlviii. | identified_ | | south-east border of
| 28 | | | Judah. Perhaps Hazazon
| | | | Tamar, the old name of
| | | | En-gedi.
| | | |
=TANACH= (R.V. |Josh. xxi. 25 | |-- |Taanach, which see.
=TAANACH=) | | | |
| | | |
=TANIS= |Judith i. 10 |_San_ |-- |Zoan in Egypt.
| | | |
=TAPHON= |1 Macc. ix. 50|_Tŭffûh_ |14 |Beth Tappuah, one
| | | | of the cities in
| | | | Judæa, fortified by
| | | | Bacchides. Probably
| | | | Beth-tappuah of Josh.
| | | | xv. 53.
| | | |
=TAPPUAH= (1) |Josh. xv. 34 |_Not |-- |A city of Judah.
| | identified_ | |
| | | |
=TAPPUAH= (2) |Josh. xvi. 8; | |10 |En-tappuah, which see.
| xvii. 8 | | |
| | | |
=TAPPUAH=, The |Josh. xvii. 8 | |-- |In the territory of
Land of | | | | Manasseh, the land in
| | | | the neighbourhood of
| | | | En-tappuah.
| | | |
=TARAH= |Num. xxxiii. |_Not |-- |One of the camping
R.V. =TERAH=) | 27, 28 | identified_ | | stations of the
| | | | Israelites in the
| | | | desert.
| | | |
=TARALAH= |Josh. xviii. |_Not |-- |A city allotted to the
| 27 | identified_ | | tribe of Benjamin
| | | | and mentioned in the
| | | | group with Mizpeh,
| | | | Chephirah, and
| | | | Jerusalem.
| | | |
=TARSHISH= |Gen. x. 4; 1 |_Not |-- |Has been variously
| Chr. i. 7; | identified_ | | sought in Spain,
| Ps. xlviii. | | | India, etc. Capt.
| 7; lxxii. | | | Conder suggests
| 10; 2 Chr. | | | Tarsus. (_Syrian
| ix. 21; xx. | | | Stone-Lore_.)
| 36, 37; Is. | | |
| ii. 16; | | |
| xxiii. 1, 6, | | |
| 10, 14; lx. | | |
| 9; lxvi. 19; | | |
| Jer. x. 9; | | |
| Ezek. xxvii. | | |
| 12, 25; | | |
| xxxviii. 13; | | |
| Jonah i. 3; | | |
| iv. 2 | | |
| | | |
=TARSUS= |2 Macc. iv. |_Tarsus_ |-- |The chief city
| 30; Acts ix. | | | of Cilicia, the
| 11, 30; xi. | | | birth-place of St.
| 25; xxi. 39; | | | Paul.
| | | |
=TEKOA= and |2 Sam. xiv. |_Kh. Tekûʾa_ |14 |The ruined village
=TEKOAH= | 2, 4, 9; 1 | | | Tekûʾa, south of
| Chr. ii. 24; | | | Bethlehem 5 miles, and
| iv. 5; xi. | | | 10 from Jerusalem.
| 28; xxvii. | | | (_Mem._ III. 314; Sh.
| 9; 2 Chr. | | | XXI.)
| xi. 6; Neh. | | |
| iii. 5, 27; | | |
| Jer. vi. 1; | | |
| Am. i. 1 | | |
| | | |
=TEKOA=, The |2 Chr. xx. 20 | |14 |The desolate region
Wilderness of | | | | between ‘Tekoa’ and
| | | | the Salt Sea. Thecoe,
| | | | 1 Macc. ix. 33.
| | | |
=TEL-ABIB= |Ezek. iii. 15 |_Not |-- |‘By the River of
| | identified_ | | Chebar.’ Was probably
| | | | a city of Chaldæa or
| | | | Babylonia, not of
| | | | Upper Mesopotamia.
| | | | Smith’s _Bible
| | | | Dictionary_.
| | | |
=TELAIM= |1 Sam. xv. 4; |_Not |-- |Telem, Josh. xv. 24.
| Josh. xv. 24 | identified_ | | One of the cities in
| | | | the extreme south of
| | | | Judah.
| | | |
=TELASSAR= or |2 Kings xix. |_Not |-- |
=THELASAR= | 12; Is. | identified_ | |
(R.V. | xxxvii. 12 | | |
=TELASSAR=) | | | |
| | | |
=TEL-HARSA= or |Ezra ii. 59; |_Not |-- |One of the five places
=TEL-HARESHA= | Neh. vii. 61 | identified_ | | from which some of the
| | | | Captivity returned
| | | | ‘who could not shew
| | | | their father’s house.’
| | | | Thelersas, 1 Esd. v.
| | | | 36.
| | | |
=TEL-MELAH= |Ezra ii. 59; |_Thelme_ (?) |-- |Supposed to be Thelme
| Neh. vii. 61 | | | of Ptolemy, a city of
| | | | the low salt tract
| | | | near the Persian Gulf.
| | | | Thermeleth, 1 Esd. v.
| | | | 36.
| | | |
=TEMAN= |Jer. xlix. 7, |_Not |-- |In Edom. Baruch iii.
| 20; Ezek. | identified_ | | 22, 23, Theman.
| xxv. 13; | | |
| Amos i. 12; | | |
| Obad. 9; | | |
| Hab. iii. 3 | | |
| | | |
=THAMNATHA= |1 Macc. ix. 50| |-- |One of the cities of
| | | | Judah, fortified
| | | | by Bacchides. =
| | | | Thimnathah; which see.
| | | | (_Mem._ II. 299; Sh.
| | | | XIV.)
| | | |
=THEBEZ= |Judg. ix. 50; |_Tûbâs_ |10 |Now the village Tûbâs,
| 2 Sam. xi. 21| | | north-east of Shechem
| | | | (Nablus). (_Mem._ II.
| | | | 247; Sh. XII.)
| | | |
=THECOE=, The |1 Macc. ix. 33| |-- |The Greek form of
Wilderness of | | | | Tekoa. _See_ Tekoa.
| | | |
=THELASAR= |2 Kings xix. | |-- |_See_ Tel-asar.
| 12 | | |
| | | |
=THELERSAS= |1 Esd. v. 36 | |-- |The Greek equivalent of
| | | | Tel-harsa, which see.
| | | |
=THEMAN= |Baruch iii. | |-- |_See_ Teman.
| 22, 23 | | |
| | | |
=THERAS=, River |1 Esd. viii. |_Not |-- |The Ahava of the
| 41, 61 | identified_ | | parallel passage in
| | | | Ezra. _See_ Ahava.
| | | |
=THERMELETH= |1 Esd. v. 36 | | |The Greek equivalent of
| | | | the name Tel-melah;
| | | | which see.
| | | |
=THIMNATHAH= |Josh. xix. |_Tibneh_ (?) |10 |A town belonging to
(R.V. =TIMNAH=)| 43; 2 Chr. | | | Dan. Probably the ruin
| xxviii. 18 | | | Tibneh, north-east
| | | | of Lydda 12 miles.
| | | | (_Mem._ II. 299; Sh.
| | | | XIV.)
| | | |
=THISBE= |Tobit i. 2 |_Not |-- |A city of Naphtali.
| | identified_ | |
| | | |
=THRACIA= |2 Macc. xii. | |-- |All the region now
| 35 | | | included in Bulgaria
| | | | and Roumelia.
| | | |
=TIBHATH= |1 Chr. xviii. | |-- |_See_ Berothah.
| 8 | | |
| | | |
=TIGRIS= |Tobit vi. 1; | |-- |The Greek equivalent of
| Jud. i. 6; | | | the Hebrew Hiddekel of
| Eccl. xxiv. | | | Gen. ii. 14, etc.
| 25 | | |
| | | |
=TIMNAH= (1) |Josh. xv. 10 |_Tibnah_ |13 |Now the ruins Tibnah,
| | | | on the south side of
| | | | the ‘Valley of Sorek,’
| | | | and west of ‘Beth
| | | | Shemesh.’ Timnath in
| | | | Gen. xxxviii. 12-14;
| | | | Judg. xiv. 1-5.
| | | | (_Mem._ II. 417; Sh.
| | | | XVI.)
| | | |
=TIMNAH= (2) |Josh. xv. 57 |_Tibna_* |14 |Near Gibeah of Judah.
| | | | Now the ruin Tibna,
| | | | near Jebʾa (Gibeah),
| | | | west of Bethlehem.
| | | | (_Mem._ III. 53; Sh.
| | | | XVII.)--Conder.
| | | |
=TIMNATH= |Gen. xxxviii. | |-- |_See_ Timnah.
| 12, 13, 14; | | |
| Judg. xiv. | | |
| 1, 2, 5 | | |
| | | |
=TIMNATH-HERES= |Judg. ii. 9 |} | |
or | |}_Kefr |10 |The city and
=TIMNATH-SERAH=|Josh. xix. |} Hâris_* | | burial-place of
| 50; xxiv. 30 |} | | Joshua. ‘In the Mount
| | | | of Ephraim, on the
| | | | north side of the hill
| | | | Gaash.’ According to
| | | | tradition the present
| | | | ‘Kefr Hâris,’ 9 miles
| | | | south of Shechem
| | | | (Nablus) in Ephraim.
| | | | (_Mem._ II. 284; Sh.
| | | | XIV.)--Conder.
| | | |
=TIPHSAH= (1) |1 Kings iv. 24| |-- |Thapsacus, near Deir on
| | | | the Euphrates.
| | | |
=TIPHSAH= (2) |2 Kings xv. 16|_Kh. Tafsah_* |10 |The name Kh. Tafsah
| | | | occurs to an old site
| | | | south-west of Shechem
| | | | 6 miles. (_Mem._ II.
| | | | 169; Sh. XI.)--Conder.
| | | |
=TIRZAH= |Josh. xii. |_Teîasír_* |10 |Now the village
| 24; 1 Kings | | | Teîasîr in the
| xiv. 17; | | | valley, 11 miles
| xv. 21, 33; | | | north of Shechem,
| xvi. 6, 8, | | | and 12 miles east of
| 9, 15, 17, | | | Samaria.--Conder.
| 23; 2 Kings | | | (_Mem._ II. 216;
| xv. 14, 16; | | | Sh. XI.; 228, XII.)
| Cant. vi. 4 | | | Robinson (B. R. iii.
| | | | 302), Van de Velde
| | | | (_Syria & Palestine_,
| | | | iii. 334), place it
| | | | at Talluza, a village
| | | | on the hill, 6 miles
| | | | east of Samaria.
| | | | Was a royal city,
| | | | the residence of
| | | | Jeroboam (1 Kings
| | | | xiv. 17). Brocardus
| | | | places ‘Thersa’ on
| | | | a high mountain 3
| | | | leagues (leucae) from
| | | | Samaria to the east
| | | | (_Descriptio_, cap.
| | | | vii.).
| | | |
=TOB=, The Land |Judg. xi. 3, 5|_Taiyibeh_ |11 |The Tubieni near
of | | (?)* | | Characa of 2 Macc.
=ISHTOB=, |2 Sam. x. 6, 8| | | xii. 17 (_see_
The Men of Tob| | | | Characa). The name is
=TOBIE=, The |1 Macc. v. 13 | | | preserved in that of
places of | | | | Taiyibeh, a village
=TUBIENI= |2 Macc. xii. | | | between Jerash and
| 17 | | | the Sea of Galilee.
| | | | (Conder’s _Handbook to
| | | | the Bible_, p. 295.)
| | | |
=TOCHEN= |1 Chr. iv. 32 |_Not |-- |A place mentioned
| | identified_ | | amongst the towns of
| | | | Simeon.
| | | |
=TOLAD=, or |1 Chr. iv. 29 |_Not |-- |One of the towns of
=EL TOLAD= | | identified_ | | Simeon.
| | | |
=TOPHEL= |Deut. i. 1 |_et Tŭfîleh_ |21 |The present ruins ‘et
| | | | Tŭfîleh,’ on the table
| | | | land of the mountains
| | | | south-east of the Dead
| | | | Sea.
| | | |
=TOPHETH=, or |2 Kings | |-- |In the ‘valley of the
=TOPHET= | xxiii. 10; | | | son of Hinnom.’
| Is. xxx. 33; | | |
| Jer. vii. | | |
| 31, 32; xix. | | |
| 6, 11-14 | | |
| | | |
=TRIPOLIS= |2 Macc. xiv. 1|_Tarablus_ |-- |The small village ‘el
| | | | Minyeh’ is thought to
| | | | occupy the ancient
| | | | site some 2 miles
| | | | distant from the
| | | | modern town called
| | | | Tarablus.
| | | |
=TYRE= and |Josh. xix. |_es Sûr_ | 6 |The present town Sûr,
=TYRUS= | 29; 2 Sam. | | | on the coast. For
| v. 11; xxiv. | | | plans and detailed
| 7, etc. Very | | | description, see
| frequently | | | _Mem._ I. 72-81;
| mentioned | | | Conder’s _Primer of
| | | | Bible Geography_;
| | | | Smith’s _Bible
| | | | Dictionary_.
| | | |
=TYRUS=, The |1 Macc. xi. 59|_Râs en | 6 |The steps by which the
Ladder of | | Nakûrah_ | | road winds round the
| | | | headland called ‘Râs
| | | | en Nakûrah,’ between
| | | | Tyre and Akka.
| | | |
=ULAI=, River |Dan. viii. 2, |_Kerkhah, |-- |The Eulaeus of the
| 16 | R._ (?) or | | Greek and Roman
| | _Karún R._ | | geographers (Arr.
| | (?) | | Exp. Al. vii. 7;
| | | | Strab. xv. 3 § 22;
| | | | Ptol. vi. 3; Pliny,
| | | | H. N., vi. 31.) Now
| | | | the modern Kerkhah,
| | | | an affluent of the
| | | | Tigris. (Smith’s
| | | | _Bible Dictionary_.)
| | | | Otherwise the Karûn R.
| | | |
=UMMAH= |Josh. xix. 30 |_ʾAlma esh | 6 |One of the cities of
| | Shʾaub_ (?) | | Asher. Probably the
| | | | ruin ʾAlma, north of
| | | | Achzib, opposite the
| | | | Ladder of Tyrus. _Land
| | | | and the Book_ chap.
| | | | xx. (Dr. Thomson.)
| | | | (_Mem._ I. 150; Sh.
| | | | III.)
| | | |
=UPHAZ= |Jer. x. 9; |_Not |-- |_cf._ R.V. margin,
| Dan. x. 5 | identified_ | | ‘according to some
| | | | ancient versions
| | | | Ophir.’
| | | |
=UR=, of the |Gen. xi. 28, |_Mugheir_ (?) |-- |Ur means ‘city,’
Chaldees | 31; xv. 7 | | | generally placed
| | | | at Mugheir. Others
| | | | suggest Warka. _See_
| | | | Erech.
| | | |
=UZZA=, The |2 Kings xxi. |_Not |-- |The garden in which
Garden of | 18, 26; 2 | identified_ | | Manasseh and his
| Chr. xxxiii. | | | son Ammon, Kings of
| 20; 2 Sam. | | | Judah, were buried. At
| vi. 8 | | | Jerusalem.
| | | |
=UZZEN-SHERAH= |1 Chr. vii. 24|_Beit Sîra_ |14 |Named in connexion with
(R.V. =UZZEN- | | | | the two Beth-horons.
SHEERAH=) | | | | Probably the present
| | | | village ‘Beit Sîra,’
| | | | 2 miles S.W. of
| | | | Beth-horon (the
| | | | lower.) (_Mem._ III.
| | | | 16; Sh. XVII.)
| | | |
=ZAANAIM=, |Judg. iv. 11 |} | |More correctly
Plain of (R.V. | |} | | ‘Bezaanannim,’
=ZAANANNIM= | |} | | according to Tal. Jer.
‘Oak’ or | |} | | Megillah, and Targums.
Terebinth of) | |} _Bessum_ (?)| | (In Targum Mishor =
| |} | 6 | Elon.) The plateau
=ZAANANNIM= |Josh. xix. 33 |} | | west of the ‘Sea of
The ‘Oak’ or | |} | | Galilee,’ near the
‘Terebinth’ of | |} | | present ruined village
‘Bezaanannim’ | |} | | _Bessum_. (_Mem._ I.
| |} | | 365; Sh. VI.)
| | | |
=ZAANAN= |Micah i. 11 | |-- |= Zenan of Josh. xv. 37.
| | | |
=ZAIR= |2 Kings viii. |_Not |-- |The position of this
| 21 | identified_ | | place is uncertain. It
| | | | probably lay east of
| | | | the Dead Sea. In the
| | | | Hebrew it is not very
| | | | different from Zoar.
| | | |
=ZALMON=, Mount |Judg. ix. 48 |_Not |10 |Generally believed to
| | identified_ | | be the southern peak
| | | | of the Mt. Gerizim
| | | | range, on which stands
| | | | the tomb of Sh. Selman
| | | | el Farsi. In Ps.
| | | | lxviii. 14, Salmon.
| | | | (Conder’s _Handbook to
| | | | the Bible_, p. 210.)
| | | | Ebal is now called
| | | | _Jebel Eslamîyeh_.
| | | |
=ZALMONAH= |Num. xxxiii. |_Not |-- |One of the camping
| 41, 42 | identified_ | | stations of the
| | | | Israelites between
| | | | ‘Mount Hor’ and
| | | | ‘Punon.’ Maʾan, east
| | | | of Petra, and Wady
| | | | Ithm, north of Akabah,
| | | | have been proposed.
| | | |
=ZANOAH= (1) |Josh. xv. 34; |_Kh. Zanûʾa_ |14 |A city of Judah in
| Neh. iii. 13;| | | the valley between
| xi. 30 | | | ‘Ashnah’ and
| | | | ‘En-gannim.’ Now
| | | | Zanûʾa, a ruined town
| | | | 2½ miles south of Beth
| | | | Shemesh. Robinson (B.
| | | | R. ii. 16.) (_Mem._
| | | | III. 128; Sh. XVII.)
| | | |
=ZANOAH= (2) |Josh. xv. 56 |_Kh. Zanûta_ |14 |A city of Judah named
| | | | in the group of Maon
| | | | (Kh. Mʾain), Ziph
| | | | (Tell ez Zîf), Jutta
| | | | (Yutta), etc. Now
| | | | Kh. Zanûta, south of
| | | | ‘Yutta.’ Van de Velde
| | | | (_Mem._ III. 354).
| | | | Robinson (B. R. ii.
| | | | 204 Note). (_Mem._
| | | | III. 410; Sh. XXV.)
| | | |
=ZAPHON= |Josh. xiii. 27|_el Hammeh_ | 7 |One of the four cities
| | | | ‘in the valley’
| | | | allotted to Gad.
| | | | Identified by the
| | | | Talmudists with
| | | | Amathi, the Amathus
| | | | of Josephus; now the
| | | | ruined site of el
| | | | Hammeh, on the banks
| | | | of the Yarmûk, to the
| | | | south-east of the Sea
| | | | of Galilee. (Conder’s
| | | | _Handbook to the
| | | | Bible_, p. 253.)
| | | |
=ZAREAH= (R.V. |Neh. xi. 29; | | |_See_ Zorah.
=ZORAH=) | 1 Chr. ii. 53| | |
| | | |
=ZARED=, The |Num. xxi. 12; |_Wâdy el Hesi_|21,|Generally believed
Valley of | Deut. ii. | |22 | to be the great
(R.V. =ZERED= | 13, 14 | | | water course (as
Valley of) | | | | suggested by Robinson)
| | | | known under the
| | | | different names
| | | | of ‘Seil Garahy,’
| | | | ‘Wâdy Garahy,’ ‘Wâdy
| | | | Siddiyeh,’ and ‘Wâdy
| | | | el Hesi,’ having its
| | | | source east of ‘Kulʾat
| | | | el Garahy’ in the
| | | | Desert of Arabia, and
| | | | entering the eastern
| | | | bay of the south end
| | | | of the Dead Sea.
| | | |
=ZAREPHATH= |1 Kings xvii. |_Sarafend_ | 2 |‘Not far from Sidon and
| 9, 10; | | | Tyre.’ (Josephus Ant.
| Obadiah 20 | | | viii. 13, § 2). ‘On
| | | | the shore of Sarepta.’
| | | | (Sancta Paula.) ‘It
| | | | lay on the public
| | | | road’ (coast road),
| | | | Jerome (Onomasticon).
| | | | Now the village
| | | | and ruins south of
| | | | Sidon. Original name
| | | | Misrephoth-maim, which
| | | | see. In the N.T.
| | | | (Sarepta), Luke iv. 26
| | | | (A.V.) Zarephath (R.V.)
| | | |
=ZARETAN= (R.V. |Josh. iii. 16 | | |A city beside Adam =
=ZARETHAN=) | | | | Zarthan, which see.
| | | | Adam is possibly ‘Tell
| | | | Damieh.’
| | | |
=ZARETH-SHAHAR= |Josh. xiii. 19|_Zara_, or |14 |‘In the mount of the
(R.V. =ZERETH- | | _Sara_ (?) | | valley.’ Thought to
SHABAR=) | | | | be the heap of ruins
| | | | called Zara or Sara on
| | | | a hill on the south
| | | | side of the great
| | | | gorge of Wâdy Zerka
| | | | Mʾaîn, near where it
| | | | joins the Salt Sea.
| | | |
=ZARTANAH= |1 Kings iv. 12|_Not |10 |‘Beneath Jezreel.’
(R.V. | | identified_ | | Perhaps the same as
=ZARETHAN=) | | | | Zererath, of Judg.
| | | | vii. 22. Probably a
| | | | separate town from
| | | | Zarthan (‘in the
| | | | plain’), Zeredath
| | | | (‘in the plain’),
| | | | and Zaretan (‘a city
| | | | beside Adam.’) Placed
| | | | by Conder at Tell
| | | | Sarêm, 3 miles south
| | | | of ‘Beth Shean.’
| | | | (_Mem._ II. 99; Sh.
| | | | IX.) By Henderson
| | | | (_Handbook_, p. 220)
| | | | at Tellel ez Zahrah,
| | | | 3 miles west of
| | | | Beth-shean and between
| | | | the latter place and
| | | | Jezreel, opposite
| | | | Shuttah. See also
| | | | _Quarterly Statement_,
| | | | 1874, p. 182.
| | | |
=ZARTHAN= (R.V. |1 Kings vii. |_Not |-- |‘In the clay ground
=ZARETHAN=) | 46 | identified_ | | between Succoth’ (Tell
| | | | Darʾala, eastern side
| | | | of Jordan valley) ‘and
| | | | Zarthan, in the plain
| | | | of Jordan, did Solomon
| | | | cast the vessels,
| | | | etc., for the temple.’
| | | | Probably Zaretan,
| | | | which see.
| | | |
=ZEBOIM= and |Gen. x. 19; |_Not |-- |One of the five cities
=ZEBOIIM= (1) | xiv. 2, 8; | identified_ | | of the plain (Jordan
| Deut. xxix. | | | Valley) next to
| 23; Hos. xi. | | | Admah. Somewhere in
| 8 | | | the southern parts of
| | | | the Jordan Valley.
| | | | (Conder’s _Handbook to
| | | | the Bible_, p. 241.)
| | | |
=ZEBOIM= (2) |Neh. xi. 34 |_Not |-- |Mentioned between
| | identified_ | | Hadid (Haditheh) and
| | | | Neballat (Beit Nabala)
| | | | east of Lydda (Lod.)
| | | |
=ZEBOIM=, The |1 Sam. xiii. |_Not |14 |One of the valleys
Valley of | 18 | identified_ | | in Benjamin toward
| | | | the wilderness. The
| | | | name Shukh ed Dubʾa
| | | | in which the name
| | | | Zeboim is possibly
| | | | preserved, is applied
| | | | to a smaller branch of
| | | | one of the many gorges
| | | | in that neighbourhood.
| | | | (Conder’s _Handbook to
| | | | the Bible_, p. 241.)
| | | |
=ZEBULUN= |Josh. xix. 27 |_Neby | 6 |‘A strong city of
| | Sebelân_ (?)*| | Galilee,’ called
| | | | the ‘city of men’
| | | | (Josephus, Wars ii.
| | | | 18, 9). The discovery
| | | | of Dabbasheth (which
| | | | see) indicates the
| | | | village Neby Sebelân
| | | | for this town.
| | | |
=ZEBULUN=, |Josh. xix. | | |‘The tribe of Zebulon’s
Tribe of | 10-17; | | | lot included the land
| Josephus v. | | | which lay as far as
| Ant. i. 22 | | | the Lake of Genesareth
| | | | and that which
| | | | belonged to Carmel and
| | | | the Sea.’ (Jos. v.
| | | | Ant. i. 22.)
| | | |
=ZEDAD= |Num. xxxiv. |_Sadûd_ (??) |-- |One of the landmarks
| 8; Ezek. | | | on the north borders
| xlvii. 15 | | | of the land of
| | | | Israel. Possibly
| | | | Sadûd, between
| | | | Hums and Baalbec.
| | | | (Porter, _Five Years
| | | | in Damascus_, ii.
| | | | 354-356.)
| | | |
=ZEEB=, |Judg. vii. 25 |_Not |-- |In the Jordan Valley.
Winepress of | | identified_ | |
| | | |
=ZELAH= |Josh. xviii. |_Not |-- |In the allotment of
| 28; 2 Sam. | identified_ | | Benjamin, between
| xxi. 14 | | | ‘Taralah’ (not known)
| | | | and ‘Eleph’ (Lifta).
| | | | The burial-place of
| | | | Saul and Jonathan.
| | | |
=ZELZAH= |1 Sam. x. 2 |_Not |-- |‘A place named once
| | identified_ | | only as on the
| | | | boundary of Benjamin,
| | | | close to Rachel’s
| | | | sepulchre,’ 1 Sam. x.
| | | | 2.
| | | |
=ZEMARAIM= |Josh. xviii. |_Kh. es |14 |One of the towns of
| 22 | Sŭmrah_ (?) | | Benjamin, named
| | | | between Beth-arabah
| | | | (site not known) and
| | | | Bethel (Beitin).
| | | | Generally believed
| | | | to be the large ruin
| | | | Sŭmrah, north of
| | | | Jericho. Robinson (B.
| | | | R. i. 569.) (_Mem._
| | | | III. 174; Sh. XVIII.)
| | | |
=ZEMARAIM=, |2 Chr. xiii. 4|_Not |-- |In Mount Ephraim--? in
Mount | | identified_ | | the neighbourhood of
| | | | Zemaraim of Josh.
| | | | xviii. 22.
| | | |
=ZENAN= |Josh. xv. 37 |_Not |-- |One of the towns
| | identified_ | | of Judah--to be
| | | | found somewhere in
| | | | the Shefelah--next
| | | | to Hadashah and
| | | | Migdal-gad. In Micah
| | | | i. 11. Zaanan.
| | | |
=ZEPHATH= |Judg. i. 17 |_Not | |_See_ Hormah.
| | identified_ | |
| | | |
=ZEPHATHAH= The |2 Chr. xiv. 10|_Wâdy Safieh_*|13 |‘At or belonging to
Valley of | | | | Mareshah.’ The name
| | | | Wâdy Safieh applies
| | | | to the leading valley
| | | | which passes ‘Beit
| | | | Jibrîn,’ 2½ miles to
| | | | the north-east of
| | | | Mareshah.--Conder.
| | | |
=ZER= |Josh. xix. 35 |_Not |-- |A fortified town of
| | identified_ | | Naphtali. Probably
| | | | somewhere on the
| | | | south-west side of
| | | | the Sea of Tiberias.
| | | | Mentioned between
| | | | Ziddim (Hattin) and
| | | | Hammath (Hummam
| | | | Tabariya.)
| | | |
=ZERED=, The |Deut. ii. 13, | |-- |_See_ Zared--the Valley
Brook | 14 | | | of.
| | | |
=ZEREDA= (R.V. |1 Kings xi. 26|_Surdah_ (?)* |10 |This site was
=ZEREDAH=) | | | | identified with
| | | | Kh. Serada on the
| | | | east edge of Merj
| | | | el ʾAyûn, west of
| | | | Banias, by R. Gerson
| | | | in 1561 A.D. (_Mem._
| | | | I. 96; Sh. II.) The
| | | | village Surdah, west
| | | | of Bethel, is now
| | | | proposed by Capt.
| | | | Conder. (_Mem._ II.
| | | | 295; Sh. XIV.) Was
| | | | the birth-place of
| | | | Jeroboam.
| | | |
=ZEREDATHAH= |2 Chr. iv. 17 |_Not |10 |‘In the plain of
(R.V. | | identified_ | | Jordan.’ In 1 Kings
=ZEREDAH=) | | | | vii. 46 Zarthan
| | | | (A.V.), Zarethan
| | | | (R.V.) _See_ Zarthan.
| | | |
=ZERERATH= |Judg. vii. 22 |_Not |10 |‘As far as Beth-shittah
(R.V. | | identified_ | | (Shutta) toward
=ZERERAH=) | | | | Zererah.’ _See_
| | | | Zartanah.
| | | |
=ZIDDIM= |Josh. xix. 35 |_Hattîn_ (?) | 6 |The Jerusalem Talmud
| | | | (Megillah i.)
| | | | identifies this place
| | | | with ‘Kefr Chittai.’
| | | | Apparently the village
| | | | Hattîn, west of the
| | | | ‘Sea of Galilee.’ A
| | | | fortified town of
| | | | Naphtali. (_Mem._ I.
| | | | 365; Sh. VI.)
| | | |
=ZIDON= or |Gen. xlix. |_Saida_ | 2 |An ancient and wealthy
=SIDON= | 13; Josh. | | | city of Phœnicia,
| xix. 28; | | | on the coast, 25
| Judg. i. | | | miles south of
| 31; x. 6; | | | Beirout. (Porter’s
| xviii. 28; 2 | | | _Handbook for Syria
| Sam. xxiv. | | | and Palestine_, 1858;
| 6; 1 Kings | | | Robinson’s _Biblical
| xvii. 9; | | | Researches_, iii.)
| Ezra iii. 7; | | |
| Is. xxiii. | | |
| 2, 4, 12; | | |
| Jer. xxv. | | |
| 22; xxvii. | | |
| 3; xlvii. 4; | | |
| Ezek. xxvii. | | |
| 8; xxviii. | | |
| 21, 22; Joel | | |
| iii. 4; | | |
| Zech. ix. 2; | | |
| 1 Esd. v. 55 | | |
| | | |
=ZIKLAG= |Josh. xv. 31; |_ʾAslûj_ (?) |20 |Named between Hormah
| xix. 5; 1 | | | and Madmannah a town
| Sam. xxx. | | | of Simeon in Judah.
| 1, 14, 26; | | | The name ʾAslûj,
| xxvii. 6; 2 | | | applied to a heap
| Sam. i. 1; | | | of ruins south of
| iv. 10; 1 | | | Beersheba and 7 miles
| Chr. iv. 30; | | | to the east of Bered
| xii. 1, 20; | | | (Khalasah), was first
| Neh. xi. 28 | | | discovered by Mr.
| | | | Rowlands in 1842.
| | | | (See Williams’s _Holy
| | | | City_, i. 463-468;
| | | | Robinson’s _Biblical
| | | | Researches_, ii. 201.)
| | | | The name is not very
| | | | close to the Hebrew,
| | | | but is a possible
| | | | corruption.
| | | |
=ZIN=, The |Num. xiii. | |-- |In Num. xxxiv. 4; Josh.
Wilderness of | 21; xx. 1; | | | xv. 3, simply Zin. A
| xxvii. 14; | | | portion of the desert
| xxxiii. 36; | | | country west of the
| xxxiv. 3; | | | Wâdy Arabah containing
| Deut. xxxii. | | | Kadesh.
| 51; Josh. | | |
| xv. 1 | | |
| | | |
=ZION= |2 Sam. v. | |-- |Jerusalem. The modern
| 7; 1 Kings | | | Arabic ‘Sahyûn’ is
| viii. 1; 2 | | | correct equivalent of
| Kings xix. | | | Zion, according to
| 21; 1 Chr. | | | Gesenius, the meaning
| xi. 5; 2 | | | of the word being
| Chr. v. 2; | | | ‘sunny,’ and a valley
| Ps. ix. 11, | | | and ruin called Sahyûn
| 14; xiv. | | | now exists 1½ miles
| 7; xx. 2; | | | west of the present
| xlviii. 12; | | | city wall. The word
| l. 2; li. | | | Zion does not occur in
| 18; liii. 6; | | | the works of Josephus,
| lxix. 35; | | | the name Jerusalem
| lxxvi. 2; | | | being used instead.
| lxxxiv. 7; | | | (Conder’s _Handbook_,
| lxxxvii. 2, | | | p. 336.)
| 5; xcvii. | | |
| 8; xcix. 2; | | |
| cii. 13, 16, | | |
| 21; cx. 2; | | |
| cxxvi. 1; | | |
| cxxviii. 5; | | |
| cxxix. 5; | | |
| cxxxii. 13; | | |
| cxxxiii. 3; | | |
| cxxxiv. 3; | | |
| cxxxv. 21; | | |
| cxxxvii. 1, | | |
| 3; cxlvi. | | |
| 10; cxlvii. | | |
| 12; cxlix. | | |
| 2; Is. i. | | |
| 8, 27; ii. | | |
| 3; iv. 3; | | |
| x. 24; xii. | | |
| 6; xiv. 32; | | |
| xxviii. | | |
| 16; xxx. | | |
| 19; xxxi. | | |
| 9; xxxiii. | | |
| 5, 14, 20; | | |
| xxxiv. 8; | | |
| xxxv. 10; | | |
| xl. 9; xli. | | |
| 27; xlvi. | | |
| 13; xlix. | | |
| 14; li. 3, | | |
| 11, 16; | | |
| lii. 1, 7, | | |
| 8; lix. 20; | | |
| lx. 14; lxi. | | |
| 3; lxii. 1; | | |
| lxiv. 10; | | |
| lxvi. 8; | | |
| Jer. iii. | | |
| 14; iv. 6; | | |
| viii. 19; | | |
| ix. 19; xiv. | | |
| 19; xxvi. | | |
| 18; xxx. 17; | | |
| xxxi. 6, 12; | | |
| l. 5, 28; | | |
| li. 10, 24, | | |
| 35; Lam. i. | | |
| 4, 17; ii. | | |
| 6; iv. 2, | | |
| 11; v. 11; | | |
| Joel ii. 1, | | |
| 15, 23; iii. | | |
| 16, 17, 21; | | |
| Amos i. 2; | | |
| vi. 1; Micah | | |
| iii. 10, 12; | | |
| iv. 2, 11; | | |
| Zeph. iii. | | |
| 16; Zech. i. | | |
| 14, 17; ii. | | |
| 7; viii. 2, | | |
| 3; ix. 9, 13 | | |
| | | |
=ZION=, Mount |2 Kings | |-- |One of the hills of
| xix. 31; | | | Jerusalem.
| Ps. ii. 6; | | |
| xlviii. 2, | | |
| 11; lxxiv. | | |
| 2; lxxviii. | | |
| 68; cxxv. 1; | | |
| cxxxiii. 3; | | |
| Is. iv. 5; | | |
| viii. 18; x. | | |
| 12, 32; xvi. | | |
| 1; xviii. | | |
| 7; xxiv. | | |
| 23; xxix. | | |
| 8; xxxi. 4; | | |
| xxxvii. 32; | | |
| Lam. v. 18; | | |
| Joel ii. 32; | | |
| iii. 17; | | |
| Obad. xvii. | | |
| 21; Micah | | |
| iv. 7; 2 | | |
| Esd. ii. 42 | | |
| | | |
=ZIOR= |Josh. xv. 54 |_Siʾaîr_ (?)* |14 |Mentioned next to
| | | | Hebron in Judah.
| | | | Eusebius and Jerome
| | | | (Onomasticon)
| | | | mentions it as a
| | | | village between Aelia
| | | | (Jerusalem) and
| | | | Eleutheropolis (Beit
| | | | Jibrîn). Probably
| | | | Siʾaîr, 4½ miles
| | | | north of Hebron.
| | | | (_Mem._ III. 309; Sh.
| | | | XXI.)--Conder.
| | | |
=ZIPH= (1) |Josh. xv. 24 |_Not |-- |A town in the south of
| | identified_ | | Judah.
| | | |
=ZIPH= (2) |Josh. xv. |_Tell Zîf_ |14 |Now the ruins and Mound
| 55; 1 Sam. | | | called Tell Zîf, south
| xxiii. 14, | | | of Hebron and next to
| 15, 24; | | | Carmel and Yuttah.
| xxvi. 2; 2 | | | (_Mem._ III. 315; Sh.
| Chr. xi. 8 | | | XXI.) Robinson (B. R.,
| | | | i. 492).
| | | |
=ZIPH=, |1 Sam. xxiii. | |14 |The rugged country east
Wilderness of | 14 | | | of Tell Zîf.
| | | |
=ZIPHRON= |Num. xxxiv. 9 |_Not |-- |Named next to Zedad as
| | identified_ | | one of the places on
| | | | the limit of the north
| | | | boundary line of the
| | | | Promised Land.
| | | |
=ZIZ=, Cliff of |2 Chr. xx. 16 |_Wâdy Hŭsâsah_|14 |Probably = Hazezon
(R.V. =ZIZ=, | | | | Tamar; the name
The Ascent of) | | | | surviving in the
| | | | valley called
| | | | Hŭsâsah, near ‘En
| | | | Gedi.’--Conder. The
| | | | Pass of ‘Ain Jîdy.’--
| | | | Robinson (B. R., i.
| | | | 508, 527, 530).
| | | |
=ZOAN= |Num. xiii. |_San_ |-- |An ancient city of
| 22; Ps. | | | Lower Egypt. The ruins
| lxxviii. 12, | | | near Lake Menzaleh.
| 43; Is. xix. | | | In Judith i. 10
| 11, 13; xxx. | | | Tanis.--(Smith’s
| 4; Ezek. | | | _Bible Dictionary_.)
| xxx. 14 | | |
| | | |
=ZOAR (BELA)= |Gen. xiii. |_Tell esh |14 |The original name was
| 10; xiv. | Shaghûr_ (?)*| | Bela. Probably the
| 2, 8; xix. | | | mound of Tell esh
| 22, 24, 30; | | | Shaghûr marks the
| Deut. xxxiv. | | | ancient site. It is
| 3; Is. xv. | | | on the south side of
| 5; Jer. | | | Wâdy Hesbân near the
| xlviii. 34 | | | edge of the plain
| | | | at the foot of the
| | | | hills. Zoar meaning
| | | | small, which in Arabic
| | | | is Saghîr. Shaghûr
| | | | signifies ‘soft soil’
| | | | in Arabic. (Conder’s
| | | | _Handbook to the Bible
| | | | and Primer_, p. 38;
| | | | _Heth & Moab_, p. 150.)
| | | |
=ZOBA= or |1 Sam. xiv. | |-- |A district which formed
=ZOBAH= | 47; 2 Sam. | | | a separate kingdom
| viii. 3, 5, | | | in the time of Saul,
| 12; x. 6, 8; | | | David and Solomon.
| xxiii. 36; | | | Extending north-east
| 1 Kings xi. | | | and eastwards of Coele
| 23, 24; 1 | | | Syria, towards the
| Chr. xviii. | | | Euphrates. (Smith’s
| 3, 5, 9; | | | _Bible Dictionary_.)
| xix. 6; 2 | | |
| Chr. viii. 3 | | |
| | | |
=ZOHELETH=, The |1 Kings i. 9 |_Zahweileh_ |14 |‘Near the well of
Stone | | | | Rogel.’ The cliff
| | | | Zahweileh, on which
| | | | the present village
| | | | stands, opposite
| | | | ‘En-rogel.’ (_Mem._
| | | | III. 53; Sh.
| | | | XVII.)--Clermont-
| | | | Ganneau.
| | | |
=ZOPHIM=, The |Num. xxiii. 14|_Talʾat es |15 |‘We can have little
Field of | | Safa_* | | hesitation in
| | | | identifying the
| | | | “Field of Zophim”
| | | | with the plateau of
| | | | arable land, a rich
| | | | red field at the top
| | | | of “Talʾat es Safa,”
| | | | from which the knoll
| | | | of limestone called
| | | | “Râs Neba” (Mount
| | | | Nebo) rises some 50
| | | | feet on the west.
| | | | The word, signifying
| | | | views, comes from
| | | | a root identical
| | | | with the Arabic
| | | | Safa, “clear” or
| | | | shining.’--(_Eastern
| | | | Survey, Quarterly
| | | | Statement_, p. 9;
| | | | Conder’s _Heth &
| | | | Moab_, p. 130.)
| | | |
=ZORAH= |Josh. xix. |_Surʾah_ |14 |In Neh. xi. 29 Zareah;
| 41; Judg. | | | Joshua xv. 33 Zoreah.
| xiii. 2, 25; | | | A town of Dan. Now
| xvi. 31; | | | the village ‘Surʾah,’
| xviii. 2, | | | on the north side
| 11; 2 Chr. | | | of the Valley of
| xi. 10 | | | Sorek, opposite ‘Beth
| | | | Shemesh.’ One of the
| | | | fenced cities of
| | | | Rehoboam. (_Mem._ III.
| | | | 158; Sh. XVII.)
| | | |
=ZUPH=, The |1 Sam. ix. 5 |_Not |-- |This name has not been
Land of | | identified_ | | recovered. (_See_
| | | | Conder’s _Primer of
| | | | Bible Geography_, p.
| | | | 91.) It is thought by
| | | | some to be personal
| | | | (see 1 Sam. i. 1.)
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