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The substitute cities of refuge were constrained to be only of moderate size, since, if they were too small, there could be scarcity of food, forcing the refugee to imperil himself by leaving the city to find sustenance, and, if they were too large, then it would be too easy for an avenger of blood to hide in the crowds; [17] nevertheless, the ...
Shiloh is mentioned in the Books of Genesis, Joshua, Judges, 1 Samuel, 1 Kings, Psalms, and Jeremiah. Shiloh was first mentioned in the Hebrew Bible in the Book of Genesis, verse 49:10, "The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff from between his feet, until Shiloh comes; And to him shall be the obedience of the peoples."
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.
Shiloh (Hebrew שילו Šîlô / שלו Šīlô / שלה Šīlōh) was an assembly place for the people of Israel where there was a sanctuary containing the Ark of the Covenant. Shiloh, Arkansas (disambiguation) Shiloh, Georgia; Shiloh, Indiana; Shiloh, Michigan, mostly abandoned; Shiloh, Richland County, Ohio; Shiloh, Hampshire County, West ...
Each settlement was to comprise a walled city and the common land around it for pasture, measured radially as one thousand cubits in each direction, [1] or as a square measuring two thousand cubits along each side. [2] The land for the cities was to be "donated" by the host tribe [3] and was allocated to the Levites according to their tribal ...
Some locations might appear twice, each time under a different name. Only places having their own Wikipedia articles are included. See also the list of minor biblical places for locations which do not have their own Wikipedia article.
For the purposes of Wikipedia categories, "Hebrew Bible" refers only to those books in the Jewish Tanakh, which has the same content as the Protestant Old Testament (including the portions in Aramaic). The deuterocanonical books of the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox biblical canons are categorized under Category:Deuterocanonical books
This is a list of traditional Hebrew place names. This list includes: Places involved in the history (and beliefs) of Canaanite religion, Abrahamic religion and Hebrew culture and the (pre-Modern or directly associated Modern) Hebrew (and intelligible Canaanite) names given to them. Places whose official names include a (Modern) Hebrew form.