Bible Cities

Arabah in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

ar'-a-ba, a-ra'-ba ha-`arabhah, "the Arabah"): This word indicates in general a barren district, but is specifically applied in whole or in part to the depression of the Jordan valley, extending from Mount Hermon to the Gulf of Akabah. In the King James Version it is transliterated only once (Josh 18:18) describing the border of Benjamin. Else...

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Arabia in Smiths Bible Dictionary

desert, barren), a country known in the Old Testament under two designations:-- 1. The East Country, Ge 25:6 or perhaps the East, (Ge 10:30; Nu 23:7; Isa 2:6 and Land of the Sons of the East, Ge 29:1 Gentile name, Sons of the East, Jud 6:3; 7:12; 1Ki 4:30; Job 1:3; Isa 11:14; Jer 49:28; Eze 25:4 From these passages it appears that Land of the...

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Arabia Scripture - Galatians 4:25

For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children....

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Aphek Scripture - Joshua 19:30

Ummah also, and Aphek, and Rehob: twenty and two cities with their villages....

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Arabah in Naves Topical Bible

A city in the valley of the Dead Sea Jos 15:6,61; 18:22 -Called ARABAH Jos 18:18...

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Antioch of Syria in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

In Syria, capital of its Greek kings, and of its Roman governors subsequently. Built where Lebanon running N. and Taurus E., meet at a bend of the river Orontes; partly on an island, partly on the level left bank. Near it was Apollo's licentious sanctuary, Daphne. Nicolas the deacon was a proselyte of Antioch. The Christians dispersed by Stephe...

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Arabia in Easton's Bible Dictionary

arid, an extensive region in the south-west of Asia. It is bounded on the west by the Isthmus of Suez and the Red Sea, on the south by the Indian Ocean, and on the east by the Persian Gulf and the Euphrates. It extends far into the north in barren deserts, meeting those of Syria and Mesopotamia. It is one of the few countries of the world ...

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Arabia Scripture - Galatians 1:17

Neither went I up to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me; but I went into Arabia, and returned again unto Damascus....

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