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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

Bible -- Geography; Names in the Bible; Names, Geographical

Conder.
                |              |              |   | (_See Handbook to the
                |              |              |   | Bible_, p. 257.) The
                |              |              |   | position agrees, and
                |              |              |   | the Arabic name is
                |              |              |   | radically the same as
                |              |              |   | the Hebrew.
                |              |              |   |
=HIDDEKEL=      |Gen. ii. 14;  |_River Tigris_|-- |One of the rivers of
                | Dan. x. 14   |              |   | Eden, ‘which goeth
                |              |              |   | toward the east of
                |              |              |   | Assyria.’ The old name
                |              |              |   | of the Tigris, which
                |              |              |   | is now called Dijlah.
                |              |              |   |
=HILEN=         |1 Chron. vi.  |_Not          |-- |In Joshua xv. 51, =
                | 58           | identified_  |   | Holon, which see.
                |              |              |   |
=HINNOM=,       |Josh. xv. 8;  |_Wâdy er      |14 |Now ‘Wâdy er
 Valley of      | xviii. 16; 2 | Rabâbeh_ (?) |   | Rabâbeh’--the valley
                | Kings xxiii. |              |   | surrounding Jerusalem
                | 10; 2 Chr.   |              |   | on the west and
                | xxviii. 3;   |              |   | south.--_Jerusalem_
                | xxxiii. 6;   |              |   | Vol. p. 94. Some have
                | Neh. xi. 30; |              |   | thought the Kedron
                | Jer. vii.    |              |   | Valley to be intended.
                | 31, 32; xix. |              |   |
                | 2, 6; xxxii. |              |   |
                | 35           |              |   |
                |              |              |   |
=HOBAH=         |Gen. xiv. 15  |_Jôbar_ (?)   | 3 |The Jews of Damascus
                |              | or _Buzreh_  |   | have a tradition
                |              | (?)          |   | that the village of
                |              |              |   | ‘Jôbar,’ immediately
                |              |              |   | north of Damascus,
                |              |              |   | is the ‘Hobah’ of
                |              |              |   | Scripture. Again, the
                |              |              |   | Moslems have another
                |              |              |   | tradition that Abraham
                |              |              |   | took refuge in a cleft
                |              |              |   | of the rock in Buzreh,
                |              |              |   | which is farther
                |              |              |   | north and to the west
                |              |              |   | of Jobâr.--Porter’s

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

Bible -- Geography; Names in the Bible; Names, Geographical

Conder.
                |              |              |   | (_See Handbook to the
                |              |              |   | Bible_, p. 257.) The
                |              |              |   | position agrees, and
                |              |              |   | the Arabic name is
                |              |              |   | radically the same as
                |              |              |   | the Hebrew.
                |              |              |   |
=HIDDEKEL=      |Gen. ii. 14;  |_River Tigris_|-- |One of the rivers of
                | Dan. x. 14   |              |   | Eden, ‘which goeth
                |              |              |   | toward the east of
                |              |              |   | Assyria.’ The old name
                |              |              |   | of the Tigris, which
                |              |              |   | is now called Dijlah.
                |              |              |   |
=HILEN=         |1 Chron. vi.  |_Not          |-- |In Joshua xv. 51, =
                | 58           | identified_  |   | Holon, which see.
                |              |              |   |
=HINNOM=,       |Josh. xv. 8;  |_Wâdy er      |14 |Now ‘Wâdy er
 Valley of      | xviii. 16; 2 | Rabâbeh_ (?) |   | Rabâbeh’--the valley
                | Kings xxiii. |              |   | surrounding Jerusalem
                | 10; 2 Chr.   |              |   | on the west and
                | xxviii. 3;   |              |   | south.--_Jerusalem_
                | xxxiii. 6;   |              |   | Vol. p. 94. Some have
                | Neh. xi. 30; |              |   | thought the Kedron
                | Jer. vii.    |              |   | Valley to be intended.
                | 31, 32; xix. |              |   |
                | 2, 6; xxxii. |              |   |
                | 35           |              |   |
                |              |              |   |
=HOBAH=         |Gen. xiv. 15  |_Jôbar_ (?)   | 3 |The Jews of Damascus
                |              | or _Buzreh_  |   | have a tradition
                |              | (?)          |   | that the village of
                |              |              |   | ‘Jôbar,’ immediately
                |              |              |   | north of Damascus,
                |              |              |   | is the ‘Hobah’ of
                |              |              |   | Scripture. Again, the
                |              |              |   | Moslems have another
                |              |              |   | tradition that Abraham
                |              |              |   | took refuge in a cleft
                |              |              |   | of the rock in Buzreh,
                |              |              |   | which is farther
                |              |              |   | north and to the west
                |              |              |   | of Jobâr.--Porter’s

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

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

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