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

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

|              |              |   | and Alammelech, a city
                |              |              |   | in Asher. Kh. Iksâf
                |              |              |   | (Sh. II., p. 119), and
                |              |              |   | Haifa (Sh. V.), have
                |              |              |   | also been proposed.
                |              |              |   | (_Mem._ I. 169; Sh.
                |              |              |   | III.)
                |              |              |   |
=ACHZIB= (1)    |Josh. xv. 44; |_ʾAin Kezbeh_ |14 |A city of Judah, named
                | Micah i. 14  | (?)*         |   | with ‘Keilah’ and
                |              |              |   | ‘Mareshah.’--Conder.
                |              |              |   | _See_ Chezib.
                |              |              |   |
=ACHZIB= (2)    |Josh. xix.    |_ez Zîb_      |-- |The Ecdippa of
                | 29; Judg. i. |              |   | Josephus. The present
                | 31; v. 17    |              |   | town, ‘Ez Zîb,’ 8½
                |              |              |   | miles north of ‘Akka’
                |              |              |   | in ‘Asher.’ (_Mem._ I.
                |              |              |   | 155; Sh. III.)
                |              |              |   |
=ADADAH=        |Josh. xv. 22  |_ʾAdʾadah_    |14 |One of the cities in
                |              |              |   | the south of Judah,
                |              |              |   | named with ‘Dimonah’
                |              |              |   | and ‘Kedesh.’ Probably
                |              |              |   | the present ruin
                |              |              |   | Adâdah in the desert
                |              |              |   | east of Beersheba.
                |              |              |   |
=ADAM=          |Josh. iii. 16 |_ed Dâmieh_   |10 |‘A city on the Jordan,
                |              | (?)          |   | beside Zarthan.’ The
                |              |              |   | name is probably
                |              |              |   | preserved in that of
                |              |              |   | Tell Dâmieh, near the
                |              |              |   | ford of ed Dâmieh.
                |              |              |   | (_Mem._ II. 387; Sh.
                |              |              |   | XV.)
                |              |              |   |
=ADAMAH=        |Josh. xix. 36 |_ed Dâmieh_*  | 6 |One of the fenced
                |              |              |   | cities of Naphtali.
                |              |              |   | Now the ruin ‘ed
                |              |              |   | Dâmieh,’ 5 miles west
                |              |              |   | of Tiberias. (_Mem._
                |              |              |   | I. 365; Sh. VI.)

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

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