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  2. List of modern names for biblical place names - Wikipedia

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    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 Aramaic or Greek formations.

  3. Jattir - Wikipedia

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    Joshua 15:48 says that Jattir was in the mountains of Judah.The village was allocated by Joshua and Elazar to the kohanim of the Aaronic priesthood, according to (Joshua 21:14); Yatir, as written in the Hebrew Bible (Christian Old Testament): "And unto the children of Aaron the priest they gave Hebron with its suburbs, the city of refuge for the manslayer, and Libnah with its suburbs, and ...

  4. Bahurim - Wikipedia

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    French archaeologist and historical geographer, Victor Guérin, identified the site Bahurim with Abu Dis, a village 3 km, south-east of Jerusalem, before the suburbs of Jerusalem began to expand. [4] The village, he argues, underwent a metamorphosis in name change; the name evolving from Būrīs , or Wadīs by another account, to what it is today.

  5. List of minor biblical places - Wikipedia

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    Ijon (Hebrew: עיּוֹן; in LXX Ancient Greek: Άίν) is the name of a place mentioned three times in the Hebrew Bible. In 1 Kings 15:20 and the parallel passage in 2 Chronicles 16:4, along with Dan and Abel-beth-maacah (Kings account, Chronicles reads "Abel-maim"), it is conquered by Ben-Hadad I of Aram during the time of Baasha of Israel ...

  6. Tishbe - Wikipedia

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    Tishbe, sometimes transliterated as Thisbe, [1] is a town mentioned in the Hebrew Bible's First Book of Kings, 1 Kings 17:1, as the residence and possibly even birthplace of the prophet Elijah, known as the Tishbite. It is placed by the biblical text in the historical region of Gilead, [2] now in the western part of modern-day Jordan.

  7. Endor (village) - Wikipedia

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    In 1 Samuel 28:4–25, Saul consulted a medium or witch at Endor (1 Samuel 28:7), [3] who lived in the village, on the evening before the Battle of Gilboa, in which he perished. [ 4 ] According to Psalms 83:9–10 , it was the scene of the rout of Jabin and Sisera [ 4 ] after being defeated by Barak and Deborah in Judges 4–5 .

  8. Cities of Refuge - Wikipedia

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    In the Book of Numbers, the laws concerning the cities of refuge state that, once he had claimed asylum, a perpetrator had to be taken from the city and put on trial; [5] if the trial found that the perpetrator was innocent of murder, then the perpetrator had to be returned under guard (for their own protection) to the city in which they had claimed asylum. [6]

  9. Jewish English Bible translations - Wikipedia

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    First published in 1916, revised in 1951, by the Hebrew Publishing Company, revised by Alexander Harkavy, a Hebrew Bible translation in English, which contains the form Jehovah as the Divine Name in Exodus 6:3, Psalm 83:18, and Isaiah 12:2 and three times in compound place names at Genesis 22:14, Exodus 17:15 and Judges 6:24 as well as Jah in ...