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Aenon in Naves Topical Bible

ENON (AENON) A place east of the Jordan River. Because there was plenty of water, John immersed people near Joh 3:23...

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Ai in Smiths Bible Dictionary

A-iath(feminine of Ai), a place named by Isaiah, Isa 10:28 in connection with Migron and Michmash probably the same as Ai....

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Abanah River in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(perennial, stony), one of the "rivers of Damascus." 2Ki 5:12 The Barada and the Awaj are now the chief streams of Damascus, the former representing the Abana and the latter the Pharpar of the text. The Barada (Abana) rises in the Antilibanus, at about 23 miles from the city, after flowing through which it runs across the plain, of whose ferti...

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Achor in Easton's Bible Dictionary

trouble, a valley near Jericho, so called in consequence of the trouble which the sin of Achan caused Israel (Josh. 7:24,26). The expression "valley of Achor" probably became proverbial for that which caused trouble, and when Isaiah (Isa. 65:10) refers to it he uses it in this sense: "The valley of Achor, a place for herds to lie down in;" i.e....

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Achor Scripture - Isaiah 65:10

And Sharon shall be a fold of flocks, and the valley of Achor a place for the herds to lie down in, for my people that have sought me....

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Aenon in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(springs) a place "near to Salim," at which John baptized. Joh 3:23 It was evidently west of the Jordan, comp. Joh 3:22 with John 3:26 and with John 1:28 and abounded in water. It is given in the Omomasticon as eight miles south of Scythopolis "near Salem and the Jordan."...

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Ai in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

("heap of rains".)1. AI or HAI, i.e. the Ai (Genesis 12:8); a royal city (Joshua 7:2; Joshua 8:9; Joshua 8:23; Joshua 8:29; Joshua 10:1-2; Joshua 12:9); E. of Bethel, "beside Bethaven." The second Canaanite city taken by Israel and "utterly destroyed." The name AIATH still belonged to the locality when Sennacherib marched against Jerusalem (Isa...

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Abanah River in Easton's Bible Dictionary

stony (Heb. marg. "Amanah," perennial), the chief river of Damascus (2 Kings 5:12). Its modern name is Barada, the Chrysorrhoas, or "golden stream," of the Greeks. It rises in a cleft of the Anti-Lebanon range, about 23 miles north-west of Damascus, and after flowing southward for a little way parts into three smaller streams, the central one fl...

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Achor in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

On the northern boundary of Judah (Joshua 15:7). (See ACHAN.)...

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Adria in Naves Topical Bible

Sea of Ac 27:27...

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