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Names and places in the Old and New Testament and Apocrypha, with their modern identifications

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Names and places in the Old and New Testament and Apocrypha, with their modern identifications

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|              |              |   | of the Orontes, near
                |              |              |   | Riblah.
                |              |              |   |
=AKRABBIM=,     |Num. xxxiv.   |_Not          |-- |Perhaps the range of
 Ascent of      | 4; Judges i. | identified_  |   | cliffs at the south
                | 36           |              |   | end of the Dead Sea,
                |              |              |   | or Nakib ibn Mar.
                |              |              |   | _See_ Maaleh Acrabbim.
                |              |              |   |
=ALAMMELECH=    |Josh. xix. 26 |_Not          |-- |Between Achshaph
                |              | identified_  |   | and Amad in Asher.
                |              |              |   | Supposed by some that
                |              |              |   | Wâdy el Melek (Sheet
                |              |              |   | V.) is a relic of this
                |              |              |   | name.
                |              |              |   |
=ALEMA=         |1 Macc. v. 26 |_Kefr el Ma_  | 7 |Only once mentioned.
                |              | (?)*         |   | Described as a city
                |              |              |   | ‘strong and great
                |              |              |   | in Gilead.’ ʾAlma,
                |              |              |   | some 8 miles south
                |              |              |   | of Edrei.--Merrill.
                |              |              |   | Kefr el Ma, a village
                |              |              |   | east of the Sea of
                |              |              |   | Galilee.--Schumacher.
                |              |              |   |
=ALEMETH=,      |1 Chron. vi.  |_ʾAlmît_      |14 |The present ruined
 (R.V.          | 60; viii.    |              |   | village ʾAlmît, 3½
 =ALLEMETH=)    | 36; ix. 42   |              |   | miles north-east of
                |              |              |   | Jerusalem. _See_
                |              |              |   | Bahurim. (_Mem._ III.
                |              |              |   | 35; Sh. XVII.)
                |              |              |   |
=ALEXANDRIA=    |3 Macc. ii.   |_Alexandria_  |-- |
                | 30; iii. 1,  |              |   |
                | 21; Acts     |              |   |
                | xviii. 24;   |              |   |
                | vi. 9        |              |   |
                |              |              |   |
=ALLON=         |Josh. xix. 33 |              |-- |The ‘Revised Version’
                |              |              |   | renders this name ‘The
                |              |              |   | Oak,’ others ‘Plain.’
                |              |              |   |
=ALLON-BACHUTH= |Gen. xxxv. 8  |              |10 |‘Beneath Bethel,’ where
 (R.V.          |              |              |   | Deborah, the nurse of

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Names and places in the Old and New Testament and Apocrypha, with their modern identifications

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