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Ancient Emmaus - Map of New Testament Israel

EM`MA-US (people despised), The village of Israel to which the two disciples were going when Christ appeared to them. Luke makes it "three-score furlongs" or seven and a half miles north-west of Jerusalem, Luke 24:13-33. Eusebius makes it Nicopolis....

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Emmaus in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

e-ma'-us, em'-a-us (Emmaous, derivation uncertain, but probably from chammath, "a hot spring"): Josephus (BJ, IV, i, 3) says: "Now Emmaus, if it be interpreted, may be rendered `a warm bath' for therein is a spring of warm water useful for healing." Here he is referring to the hot springs near Tiberias. Possibly the same Greek name may not alw...

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Emmaus in Naves Topical Bible

(A village about threescore furlongs (approximately seven miles) from Jerusalem) -Appearance of Jesus in, after his resurrection Lu 24:13...

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Emmaus in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(warm baths), the village to which the two disciples were going when our Lord appeared to them on the way, on the day of his resurrection. Lu 24:13 Luke makes its distance from Jerusalem sixty stadia (Authorized Version "threescore furlongs"), or about 7 1/2 miles; and Josephus mentions "a village called Emmaus" at the same distance. The site ...

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Emmaus in Hitchcock's Bible Names

people despised or obscure...

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Emmaus Scripture - Luke 24:13

And, behold, two of them went that same day to a village called Emmaus, which was from Jerusalem [about] threescore furlongs....

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Emmaus in Easton's Bible Dictionary

hot baths, a village "three-score furlongs" from jerusalem, where our Lord had an interview with two of his disciples on the day of his resurrection (Luke 24:13). This has been identified with the modern el-Kubeibeh, lying over 7 miles north- west of Jerusalem. This name, el-Kubeibeh, meaning "little dome," is derived from the remains of th...

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Emmaus in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

The village (60 stadia or furlongs, i.e. seven and a half miles, from Jerusalem) to which two disciples were walking on the day of Jesus' resurrection when He joined them unrecognized. The Greek Church place it at Kuriet el Enab (Abu Ghosh). The old name now reappears in Ainwas. But Conder (Israel Exploration Quarterly Statement, October, 1876...

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