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Machpelah Scripture - Genesis 25:9

And his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, which [is] before Mamre;...

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Mahanaim in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

ma-ha-na'-im (machanayim; the Greek is different in every case where the name occurs, Codex Vaticanus and Codex Alexandrinus also giving variant forms; the dual form may be taken as having arisen from an old locative ending, as, e.g. yerushala(y)im from an original yerushalem. In Gen 32:21 machaneh is evidently a parallel form and should be re...

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Lydda in Naves Topical Bible

Also called LOD -A city of the tribe of Benjamin 1Ch 8:12; Ezr 2:33; Ne 11:35 -Peter heals Aeneas in Ac 9:32-35...

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Lystra in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

lis'-tra: The forms Lustran, and Lustrois, occur. Such variation in the gender of Anatolian city-names is common (see Harnack, Apostelgeschichte, 86; Ramsay, Paul the Traveler, 128). Lystra was visited by Paul 4 times (Acts 14:6,21; 16:1; 18:23--the last according to the "South Galatian" theory), and is mentioned in 2 Tim 3:10 f as one of the...

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Lystra Scripture - Acts 14:6

They were ware of [it], and fled unto Lystra and Derbe, cities of Lycaonia, and unto the region that lieth round about:...

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Macedonia in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

The first country in Europe where Paul preached the gospel, in obedience to the vision of a man of Macedonia, saying "come over and help us." The Haemus (Balkan) range, separating it from Maesia, is on its N.; the Pindus, separating it from Epirus, on the W.; the Cambunian hills S. separating Macedonia from Thessaly; Thrace and the Aegean sea...

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Macedonia Scripture - Acts 16:10

And after he had seen the vision, immediately we endeavoured to go into Macedonia, assuredly gathering that the Lord had called us for to preach the gospel unto them....

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Machpelah in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

The tract containing the field and cave in the end of Ephron's field, which Abraham bought as his burying ground from Ephron and the sons of Heth (Genesis 23:9); his only possession in the land of promise. All ancient versions translated Machpelah "the double cave," from kaphal, "to divide or double". Either there were two entrances or two rec...

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Magdala in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

mag'-da-la. See MAGADAN....

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Mahanaim in Naves Topical Bible

The place where Jacob had the vision of angels Ge 32:2 -The town of, allotted to Gad Jos 13:26,30 -One of the Levitical cities Jos 21:38 -Ish-bosheth establishes himself at, when made king over Israel 2Sa 2:8-12 -David lodges at, at the time of Absalom's rebellion 2Sa 17:27-29; 1Ki 2:8...

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