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Jericho is a plain surrounded by a kind of mountainous country, which in a way, slopes toward it like a theatre. Here is the Phoenicon, which is mixed also with all kinds of cultivated and fruitful trees, though it consists mostly of palm trees. It is 100 stadia in length and is everywhere watered with streams.
While a number of biblical place names like Jerusalem, Athens, Damascus, Alexandria, Babylon and Rome have been used for centuries, some have changed over the years. Many place names in the Land of Israel, Holy Land and Palestine are Arabised forms of ancient Hebrew and Canaanite place-names used during biblical times [1] [2] [3] or later ...
In Abrahamic religions, the Garden of Eden ( Biblical Hebrew: גַּן־עֵדֶן, romanized: gan-ʿĒḏen; Greek: Εδέμ; Latin: Paradisus) or Garden of God ( גַּן־יְהֹוֶה, gan- YHWH and גַן־אֱלֹהִים, gan- Elohim ), also called the Terrestrial Paradise, is the biblical paradise described in Genesis 2–3 ...
Cush (Bible) Cush or Kush ( / kʊʃ, kʌʃ / Hebrew: כּוּשׁ Kūš; Ge'ez: ኩሽ ), according to the Hebrew Bible, was the oldest son of Ham and a grandson of Noah. He was the brother of Mizraim, Phut, and Canaan. Cush was the father of Nimrod. [1] [2] Cush is traditionally considered the ancestor of the "Land of Cush", an ancient ...
Forest of the Cedars of God. / 34.24500°N 36.04806°E / 34.24500; 36.04806. The Cedars of God ( Arabic: أرز الربّ Arz ar-Rabb "Cedars of the Lord"), located in the Kadisha Valley of Bsharre, Lebanon, are one of the last vestiges of the extensive forests of the Lebanon cedar that thrived across Mount Lebanon in antiquity. All ...
Ophir (/ ˈ oʊ f ər /; Hebrew: אוֹפִיר, Modern: ʼŌfīr, Tiberian: ʼŌp̄īr) is a port or region mentioned in the Bible, famous for its wealth.Its existence is attested to by an inscribed pottery shard found at Tell Qasile (in modern-day Tel Aviv) in 1946, dating to the eighth century BC, which reads "gold of Ophir to/for Beth-Horon [...] 30 shekels" The location of Ophir is ...
Galilee. Coordinates: 32.76°N 35.53°E. Map of the Galilee region. Galilee ( / ˈɡælɪliː /; [1] Hebrew: הַגָּלִיל, romanized : hagGālīl; Latin: Galilaea; [2] Arabic: الجليل, romanized : al-jalīl) is a region located in northern Israel and southern Lebanon. Galilee traditionally refers to the mountainous part, divided into ...
Described by Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld as "the first non-Ptolemaic map of a definite country". [1] The Holy Land [a] is an area roughly located between the Mediterranean Sea and the eastern bank of the Jordan River, traditionally synonymous both with the biblical Land of Israel and with the region of Palestine. Today, the term "Holy Land ...