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
34 | | | of Eusebius (Onom.
| | | | ‘Adithaim’), a town
| | | | called ‘Aditha,’ or
| | | | ‘Adatha,’ existed to
| | | | the east of Lydda
| | | | (Diospolis). ‘Adida
| | | | in Sephela’ (1 Macc.
| | | | xii. 38) is probably
| | | | the same place. Now
| | | | the present village
| | | | ‘Hadîtheh,’ 3 miles to
| | | | the east of Lydda =
| | | | the Adithaim of Joshua
| | | | xv. 36. (_Mem._ II.
| | | | 322; Sh. XIV.)
| | | |
=HADRACH=, The |Zech. ix. 1 |_Not |-- |Somewhere in Syria.
land of | | identified_ | |
| | | |
=HAI= (R.V. |Gen. xii. 8; | |-- |_See_ ‘Ai.’
=AI=) | xiii. 3 | | |
| | | |
=HALAH= |2 Kings |_Not |-- |A different place to
| xviii. 11; 1 | identified_ | | that of Gen. x. 11;
| Chr. v. 26 | | | thought to be the
| | | | ‘Chalcitis’ of Ptolemy
| | | | (v. 18). The modern
| | | | name, ‘Gla,’ applies
| | | | to a huge mound on the
| | | | Upper Khabour, above
| | | | its junction with the
| | | | Jerujer. (Layard,
| | | | _Nin. & Bab._ 312.)
| | | |
=HALAK=, Mount |Josh. xi. 17; |_Not |-- |In the neighbourhood
| xii. 7 | identified_ | | of ‘Mount Seir,’
| | | | signifying ‘the bare
| | | | mountain’ (margin
| | | | R.V.).
| | | |
=HALHUL= |Josh. xv. 58 |_Hŭlhûl_ |14 |The present village
| | | | still called ‘Hŭlhûl,’
| | | | north of Hebron and
| | | | near to Beth-zur, with
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