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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

|              |              |   |
=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

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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

|              |              |   |
=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

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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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