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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

|              |              |   | (Kh. Mʾain), Ziph
                |              |              |   | (Tell ez Zîf), Jutta
                |              |              |   | (Yutta), etc. Now
                |              |              |   | Kh. Zanûta, south of
                |              |              |   | ‘Yutta.’ Van de Velde
                |              |              |   | (_Mem._ III. 354).
                |              |              |   | Robinson (B. R. ii.
                |              |              |   | 204 Note). (_Mem._
                |              |              |   | III. 410; Sh. XXV.)
                |              |              |   |
=ZAPHON=        |Josh. xiii. 27|_el Hammeh_   | 7 |One of the four cities
                |              |              |   | ‘in the valley’
                |              |              |   | allotted to Gad.
                |              |              |   | Identified by the
                |              |              |   | Talmudists with
                |              |              |   | Amathi, the Amathus
                |              |              |   | of Josephus; now the
                |              |              |   | ruined site of el
                |              |              |   | Hammeh, on the banks
                |              |              |   | of the Yarmûk, to the
                |              |              |   | south-east of the Sea
                |              |              |   | of Galilee. (Conder’s
                |              |              |   | _Handbook to the
                |              |              |   | Bible_, p. 253.)
                |              |              |   |
=ZAREAH= (R.V.  |Neh. xi. 29;  |              |   |_See_ Zorah.
 =ZORAH=)       | 1 Chr. ii. 53|              |   |
                |              |              |   |
=ZARED=, The    |Num. xxi. 12; |_Wâdy el Hesi_|21,|Generally believed
 Valley of      | Deut. ii.    |              |22 | to be the great
 (R.V. =ZERED=  | 13, 14       |              |   | water course (as
 Valley of)     |              |              |   | suggested by Robinson)
                |              |              |   | known under the
                |              |              |   | different names
                |              |              |   | of ‘Seil Garahy,’
                |              |              |   | ‘Wâdy Garahy,’ ‘Wâdy
                |              |              |   | Siddiyeh,’ and ‘Wâdy
                |              |              |   | el Hesi,’ having its
                |              |              |   | source east of ‘Kulʾat
                |              |              |   | el Garahy’ in the
                |              |              |   | Desert of Arabia, and
                |              |              |   | entering the eastern
                |              |              |   | bay of the south end

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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

|              |              |   | (Kh. Mʾain), Ziph
                |              |              |   | (Tell ez Zîf), Jutta
                |              |              |   | (Yutta), etc. Now
                |              |              |   | Kh. Zanûta, south of
                |              |              |   | ‘Yutta.’ Van de Velde
                |              |              |   | (_Mem._ III. 354).
                |              |              |   | Robinson (B. R. ii.
                |              |              |   | 204 Note). (_Mem._
                |              |              |   | III. 410; Sh. XXV.)
                |              |              |   |
=ZAPHON=        |Josh. xiii. 27|_el Hammeh_   | 7 |One of the four cities
                |              |              |   | ‘in the valley’
                |              |              |   | allotted to Gad.
                |              |              |   | Identified by the
                |              |              |   | Talmudists with
                |              |              |   | Amathi, the Amathus
                |              |              |   | of Josephus; now the
                |              |              |   | ruined site of el
                |              |              |   | Hammeh, on the banks
                |              |              |   | of the Yarmûk, to the
                |              |              |   | south-east of the Sea
                |              |              |   | of Galilee. (Conder’s
                |              |              |   | _Handbook to the
                |              |              |   | Bible_, p. 253.)
                |              |              |   |
=ZAREAH= (R.V.  |Neh. xi. 29;  |              |   |_See_ Zorah.
 =ZORAH=)       | 1 Chr. ii. 53|              |   |
                |              |              |   |
=ZARED=, The    |Num. xxi. 12; |_Wâdy el Hesi_|21,|Generally believed
 Valley of      | Deut. ii.    |              |22 | to be the great
 (R.V. =ZERED=  | 13, 14       |              |   | water course (as
 Valley of)     |              |              |   | suggested by Robinson)
                |              |              |   | known under the
                |              |              |   | different names
                |              |              |   | of ‘Seil Garahy,’
                |              |              |   | ‘Wâdy Garahy,’ ‘Wâdy
                |              |              |   | Siddiyeh,’ and ‘Wâdy
                |              |              |   | el Hesi,’ having its
                |              |              |   | source east of ‘Kulʾat
                |              |              |   | el Garahy’ in the
                |              |              |   | Desert of Arabia, and
                |              |              |   | entering the eastern
                |              |              |   | bay of the south end

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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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