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
| 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
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