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
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=MYRA= |Acts xxvii. 5 |_Dembra_ |-- |A city of Lycia.
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=MYSIA= |Acts xvi. 7, | |-- |A district in the
| 8; 1 Wars | | | north-west of Asia
| xxi. 11; 4 | | | Minor.
| Wars x. 6; 7 | | |
| Wars iv. 3; | | |
| v. 3 | | |
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=NAIN= |Luke vii. 11 |_Nein_ |10 |The village Nein, west
| | | | of Endor. (_Mem._ II.
| | | | 86; Sh. IX; _Q. S._
| | | | 115, 1878.)
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=NAZARETH= |Matt. ii. 23; |_en Nâsirah_ | 6 |The town en Nâsirah,
| iv. 13; xxi. | | | in Lower Galilee. For
| 11; Mark | | | various descriptions,
| i. 9; Luke | | | see _Mem._ I. 275-279;
| i. 26; ii. | | | Sh. V; _Tent Work_,
| 4, 39, 51; | | | 57; _Primer_, 147
| iv. 16, 34; | | | (Conder); _Q. S._
| xviii. 37; | | | 1869, 1870, 1873, and
| John i. 45, | | | Dean Stanley’s _Sinai
| 46 | | | and Palestine_, 365.
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=NEAPOLIS= |Acts xvi. 11 |_Kavalla_ |-- |_See_ Philippi.
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=NICOPOLIS= |Titus iii. 12 | |-- |Thought to be
| | | | Paleoprevêsa, west of
| | | | the Bay of Actium.
| | | | (Grove’s _B. I._)
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=NINEVEH= |Matt. xii. 41 | |-- |On the left bank of
| | | | the Tigris, opposite
| | | | Mosul. See _O. T. S._
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=OLIVES=, |Matt. xxi. |_Jebel et Tôr_|14 |The hill called Jebel
Mount of | 1; xxiv. 3; | | | et Tôr on the east
=OLIVET=, The | xxvi. 30; | | | of Jerusalem. See
Mount Called | Mark xi. 1; | | | _O. T. S._ ‘Five
| xiii. 3; | | | furlongs from the
| xiv. 26; | | | city’ (20 Ant. viii.
| Luke xix. | | | 6); ‘six furlongs from
| 29, 37; xxi.
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