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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

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|Josh. xix. 20 |_Kh. el       | 6 |A town of Issachar,
 =EBEZ=)        |              | Beida_ (?)*  |   | named between Kishion
                |              |              |   | and Remeth. Possibly
                |              |              |   | the ruin el Beida =
                |              |              |   | ‘white,’ at north
                |              |              |   | limit of the plain of
                |              |              |   | Esdraelon. (_Mem._ I.
                |              |              |   | 309; Sh. V.)--Conder.
                |              |              |   |
=ABRONAH=       |Num. xxxiii.  |_Not          |-- |
 (Ebronah)      | 34, 35       | identified_  |   |
                |              |              |   |
=ACCAD=         |Gen. x. 10    |_Nisibis_ (??)|-- |One of the cities in
                |              |              |   | the land of Shinar.
                |              |              |   | Nisibis, a city on
                |              |              |   | the Khabour river
                |              |              |   | at the north-east
                |              |              |   | part of Mesopotamia,
                |              |              |   | and midway between
                |              |              |   | Orfa and Nineveh, is
                |              |              |   | generally believed to
                |              |              |   | occupy the ancient
                |              |              |   | site.
                |              |              |   |
=ACCARON=       |1 Macc. x. 89 |              |-- |_See_ Ekron.
                |              |              |   |
=ACCHO=, (R.V.  |Judg. i. 31   |_ʾAkka_       | 6 |St. Jean d’Acre. The
 =ACCO=)        |              |              |   | Ptolemais of the 1st
                |              |              |   | Book of Maccabees. A
                |              |              |   | seaport town. (_Mem._
                |              |              |   | I. 145, 153, 160; Sh.
                |              |              |   | III.)
                |              |              |   |
=ACHOR=, Valley |Josh. vii.    |_Wâdy Kelt_   |14 |Now Wâdy Kelt, the
 of             | 24, 26; xv.  |              |   | deep ravine south of
                | 7; Is. lxv.  |              |   | Jericho. (_Mem._ III.
                | 10; Hos. ii. |              |   | 167; Sh. XVIII.)
                | 15           |              |   |
                |              |              |   |
=ACHSHAPH=      |Josh. xi. 1;  |_Kefr Yasîf_  | 6 |The present village,
                | xii. 20;     | (?)*         |   | ‘Kefr Yasîf,’ 6
                | xix. 25      |              |   | miles north-east of
                |              |              |   | ‘Accho.’--Conder.
                |              |              |   | Named between Beten

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

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