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Zaraphath in Easton's Bible Dictionary

smelting-shop, "a workshop for the refining and smelting of metals", a small Phoenician town, now Surafend, about a mile from the coast, almost midway on the road between Tyre and Sidon. Here Elijah sojourned with a poor widow during the "great famine," when the "heaven was shut up three years and six months" (Luke 4:26; 1 Kings 17:10). It...

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Tarsus Scripture - Acts 21:39

But Paul said, I am a man [which am] a Jew of Tarsus, [a city] in Cilicia, a citizen of no mean city: and, I beseech thee, suffer me to speak unto the people....

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Tekoa in Hitchcock's Bible Names

trumpet; that is confirmed...

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Tel Abib in Naves Topical Bible

Residence of Jewish captives in Babylonia Eze 3:15...

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Thessalonica in Smiths Bible Dictionary

The original name of this city was Therma; and that part of the Macedonian shore on which it was situated retained through the Roman period the designation of the Thermaic Gulf. Cassander the son of Antipater rebuilt and enlarged Therma, and named it after his wife Thessalonica, the sister of Alexander the Great. The name ever since, under var...

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Thessalonica Scripture - Acts 17:1

Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where was a synagogue of the Jews:...

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Thyatira Scripture - Acts 16:14

And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, which worshipped God, heard [us]: whose heart the Lord opened, that she attended unto the things which were spoken of Paul....

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Tophet in Naves Topical Bible

Also called TOPHETH -A place in the valley of the sons of Hinnom 2Ki 23:10 -Jewish children passed through the fire to the god Molech in 2Ki 23:10; Jer 7:31,32; 19:6,11-14; 32:35 -See also 2Ch 28:3; 33:6 -Destroyed by Josiah 2Ki 23:10 -Horror of Isa 30:33...

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Tophet Scripture - Isaiah 30:33

For Tophet [is] ordained of old; yea, for the king it is prepared; he hath made [it] deep [and] large: the pile thereof [is] fire and much wood; the breath of the LORD, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it....

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Tarsus Scripture - Acts 9:30

[Which] when the brethren knew, they brought him down to Caesarea, and sent him forth to Tarsus....

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