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

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

|              |              |   | Ophrah.
                |              |              |   |
=AR OF MOAB=    |Num. xxi. 28; |_Rabba_       |14 |The ruin ‘Rabba,’ north
                | Deut. ii. 9, |              |   | of ‘Kerak,’ known in
                | 18, 29; Isa. |              |   | the time of Jerome
                | xv. 1        |              |   | as ‘Areopolis’ and
                |              |              |   | Rabbath-Moab.
                |              |              |   |
=ARAB=          |Josh. xv. 52  |_Kh. er       |14 |The present ruin,
                |              | Rabîyeh_*    |   | er Rabîyeh, in the
                |              |              |   | mountains of Judah,
                |              |              |   | south of Hebron.
                |              |              |   | (_Mem._ III. 311-360;
                |              |              |   | Sh. XXI.)--Conder.
                |              |              |   |
=ARABAH=        |Josh. xviii.  |_The Ghôr_    |-- |The great Jordan Valley.
                | 18           | and the      |   |
                |              | _ʾArabah_    |   |
                |              |              |   |
=ARABATTINE=    |1 Macc. v. 3  |_Acrabbim_    |-- |In Idumea. Akrabbim
                |              |              |   | (ascent of), which see.
                |              |              |   |
=ARABIA=        |1 Kings x.    |              |-- |
                | 15; 2 Chron. |              |   |
                | ix. 14; Is.  |              |   |
                | xxi. 13;     |              |   |
                | Jer. xxv.    |              |   |
                | 24; Ezek.    |              |   |
                | xxvii. 21;   |              |   |
                | Judith ii.   |              |   |
                | 25; 1 Macc.  |              |   |
                | xi. 16; 2    |              |   |
                | Macc. xii.   |              |   |
                | 11; 2 Esd.   |              |   |
                | xv. 29; Gal. |              |   |
                | i. 17; iv. 25|              |   |
                |              |              |   |
=ARAD=          |Num. xxi. 1;  |_Tell ʾArâd_  |14 |Named with ‘Hormah’ and
                | xxxiii. 40;  |              |   | ‘Libnah.’ The large
                | Josh. xii.   |              |   | ruin Tell ʾArâd, east
                | 14; Judg. i. |              |   | of Beersheba. (_Mem._
                | 16           |              |   | II. 403, 415; Sh. XXV.)
                |              |              |   |
=ARADUS=        |1 Macc. xv. 23|_Island Er    |-- |Same as Arvad.
                |              | Ruad_        |   |
                |              |              |   |
=ARAM= (Syria)  |Gen. x. 22,   |              |-- |The country from the
                | 23; xxii.    |              |   | Sea of Galilee to
                | 21; Num.

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

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