Bible Cities

Ophir Scripture - Isaiah 13:12

I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir....

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Padan Aram in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

"The flat land of Aram," contrasted with the more mountainous region of the N. and N.E. of Mesopotamia (Hosea 12:12), "the field (sedeh) of Aram" (Genesis 25:20), the same as Aram Naharaim, "Aram of the two rivers," or Mesopotamia. (See MESOPOTAMIA.) (Genesis 24:10). Aram expresses the highland of Syria, contrasted with the lowland of Canaan. ...

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Pamphylia in Hitchcock's Bible Names

a nation made up of every tribe...

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Paphos in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(boiling, or hot), a town at the west end of Cyprus, connected by a react with Salamis at the east end. It was founded B.C. 1184 (during the period of the judges in Israel). Paul and Barnabas travelled, on their first missionary expedition, "through the isle" from the latter place to the former, Ac 13:6 The great characteristic of Paphos was t...

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Nod in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(flight), the land to which Cain fled after the murder of Abel. [CAIN]...

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Noph in Easton's Bible Dictionary

the Hebrew name of an Egyptian city (Isa. 19:13; Jer.2:16; 44:1; 46:14, 19; Ezek. 30:13, 16). In Hos. 9:6 the Hebrew name is Moph, and is translated "Memphis," which is its Greek and Latin form. It was one of the most ancient and important cities of Egypt, and stood a little to the south of the modern Cairo, on the western bank of the Nil...

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Noph Scripture - Ezekiel 30:16

And I will set fire in Egypt: Sin shall have great pain, and No shall be rent asunder, and Noph [shall have] distresses daily....

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Ophir Scripture - 1 Chronicles 29:4

[Even] three thousand talents of gold, of the gold of Ophir, and seven thousand talents of refined silver, to overlay the walls of the houses [withal]:...

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Ophir Scripture - Job 28:16

It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire....

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