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Antioch – In Asia Minor. Arabia – (in biblical times and until the 7th century AD Arabia was confined to the Arabian Peninsula) Aram / Aramea – (Modern Syria) Arbela (Erbil/Irbil) – Assyrian city. Archevite. Armenia – Indo-European kingdom of eastern Asia Minor and southern Caucasus. Arrapkha – Assyrian city, modern Kirkuk.
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 ...
Rehoboth (Hebrew רְחוֹבוֹת Reḥovot, "broad place") is the name of three places in the Bible. In Genesis 26:22, It signifies vacant land in the Land of Canaan where Isaac is permitted to dig a well without being ousted by the Philistines. Rehoboth, Massachusetts
The team discovered that within the King James Version Bible, a total of 3,418 distinct names were identified. Among these, 1,940 names pertain to individuals, 1,072 names refer to places, 317 names denote collective entities or nations, and 66 names are allocated to miscellaneous items such as months, rivers, or pagan deities.
Mount Zion, with the Cenacle (the site of the Last Supper) and the nearby site of the Dormition of Mary. Mount of Olives, whose western flank is facing Jerusalem (for sites on its eastern side see Bethany and Bethphage). Here are the traditional sites of a cave in which Jesus taught his disciples, of the Ascension of Jesus and, in the Orthodox ...
The category covers biblical places: places, lands, and countries mentioned in the Bible. Bible portal. Asia portal. Christianity portal. Judaism portal. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Biblical places.
See Beeroth (biblical city). Beeroth (Hebrew: בְּאֵרוֹת; in LXX Ancient Greek: Βηρωθ) is a minor city in Gibeon mentioned in Joshua 9:17. Maspero, Petrie, also Müller and Budge identify the place name Baertou mentioned in the Annals of Thutmose III at Temple of Karnak as biblical Beeroth. [44]
List of administrative division name changes. List of placenames of Indigenous origin in the Americas. List of renamed places in Angola. List of Arabic place names. List of Aramaic place names. List of places named after Armenia. List of Asian regions with alternative names. List of reduplicated Australian place names.