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Laurent d'Arvieux in 1660 counted 20 trees; [11] and Henry Maundrell in 1697 counted 16 trees of the “very old” type: “Sunday, May 9 The noble (cedar] trees grow amongst the snow near the highest part of Lebanon; and are remarkable as well as for their own age and largeness, as for those frequent allusions made to them in the word of God.
Mount Hermon's summit straddles the border between Lebanon and Syria. Mount Hermon (Arabic: جبل الشيخ or جبل حرمون / ALA-LC: Jabal al-Shaykh ('Mountain of the Sheikh ') or Jabal Haramun; Hebrew: הַר חֶרְמוֹן, Har Ḥermōn) is a mountain cluster constituting the southern end of the Anti-Lebanon mountain range.
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" usually refers to a territory roughly corresponding to the modern states of Israel and Palestine.
Land of Nod is the name of a hamlet in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is located at the far end of a two-mile-long (3.2 km) road, which joins the A614 road at Holme-on-Spalding-Moor (53.8185°N 0.7215°W). [11] It is the name of a private road in Headley Down, Hampshire, UK (51.1211°N 0.7998°W). [12]
Cedrus libani. Cedrus libani, the cedar of Lebanon or Lebanese cedar (Arabic: أرز لبناني, romanized: ʾarz Lubnāniyy), is a species of tree in the genus Cedrus, a part of the pine family, native to the mountains of the Eastern Mediterranean basin. It is a large evergreen conifer that has great religious and historical significance in ...
Madaba Map. Coordinates: 31°43′3.54″N 35°47′39.12″E. Jerusalem on the Madaba Map. The Madaba Map, also known as the Madaba Mosaic Map, is part of a floor mosaic in the early Byzantine church of Saint George in Madaba, Jordan. The mosaic map depicts an area from Lebanon in the north to the Nile Delta in the south, and from the ...
East Manasseh was the northernmost Israelite group east of the Jordan until the siege of Laish farther north by the tribe of Dan; other neighboring tribes were Gad on the south and Naphtali and Issachar on the west. East Manasseh occupied the land from the Mahanaim in the south to Mount Hermon in the north, and including within it the whole of ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 14 September 2024. Ancient Semitic goddess For the small research submarine, see Asherah (submarine). Asherah אֲשֵׁרָה Lady Asherah (of the) Sea or Day Great Mother Other names Athirat Major cult center Middle-East Formerly Jerusalem Symbol Tree Consort El (Ugaritic religion) Yahweh ...