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Salt Sea in Smiths Bible Dictionary

the usual and perhaps the most ancient name for the remarkable lake which to the western world is now generally known as the Dead Sea. I. Names.-- (1) The Salt Sea, Ge 14:3 (2) Sea of the Arabah (Authorized Version "sea of the plain," which is found in De 4:49 ); (3) The East Sea Joe 2:20 (4) The sea, Eze 47:8 (5) Sodomitish Sea, 2 Esdras; (6)...

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Salt Sea Scripture - Numbers 34:12

And the border shall go down to Jordan, and the goings out of it shall be at the salt sea: this shall be your land with the coasts thereof round about....

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Samaria in Hitchcock's Bible Names

watch-mountain...

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Samaria Scripture - Amos 3:9

Publish in the palaces at Ashdod, and in the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say, Assemble yourselves upon the mountains of Samaria, and behold the great tumults in the midst thereof, and the oppressed in the midst thereof....

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Sardis in Hitchcock's Bible Names

prince of joy...

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Salt Sea in Easton's Bible Dictionary

(Josh. 3:16). See DEAD SEA -T0000991....

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Salt Sea Scripture - Joshua 15:2

And their south border was from the shore of the salt sea, from the bay that looketh southward:...

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Sea of Galilee in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

(Matthew 4:18; Mark 7:31; John 6:1). So called from its washing the E. side of Galilee. In Luke 5:1 "the sea of Gennesaret," called so from the fertile plain of Gennesurer at its N.W. angle, three and a half miles long by two and a half broad (Matthew 14:34). In Old Testament "the sea of Chinnereth" or Cinneroth, from the town so named on its ...

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Salamis in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(suit), a city at the east end of the island of Cyprus, and the first place visited by Paul and Barnabas, on the first missionary journey, after leaving the mainland at Seleucia. Here alone, among all the Greek cities visited by St. Paul, we read expressly of "synagogues" in the plural, Ac 13:5 hence we conclude that there were many Jews in Cy...

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Sea of Tiberias in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

John's (John 6:1; John 21:1) designation as better understood by the Gentile Romans, etc., whom he addressed. frontGALILEE, SEA or, the local designation.) Lieut. Kitchener makes the depth 682.554 ft. The neighbouring Kurn Hattin is an extinct volcano, and the plain is strewn with basalt and debris. He thinks Khirbet Minyeh the site of Capern...

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