The Negev — Atlas
…The Hebrew word simply means 'the dry country' (and, by extension, 'the south'), so its boundary is a gradient, drawn…
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Ramath-mizpeh — Atlas
…not assume it — mitzpeh, ‘watchtower, lookout’, is an ordinary Hebrew word for high, watchful ground that several unrelated sites carry…
Matthew 1
…A biblical “X fathered Y” never guaranteed an unbroken father-son chain; it could leap generations, and Matthew uses that…
The spring of Harod — Atlas
…The name stands in one verse of the Hebrew Bible, and is built on the root of the word for…
Golan — Atlas
…the east, “out of the tribe of Manasseh.” The Hebrew column there prints two forms of the name, a written…
Jeshurun — Dictionary
…accusation (44:2) — the name's fourth and final biblical appearance. Most English versions transliterate rather than translate it, keeping…
The waters of Merom — Atlas
…these pages) — the only two verses in the whole Hebrew Bible that name the place, and it is never located…
Madon — Atlas
…The consonants happen to be identical to the ordinary Hebrew noun madon, 'strife, contention' (Proverbs 15:18; 17:14; and…
Goshen (in Judah) — Atlas
…Goshen in Egypt where Jacob’s family settled; the Hebrew spelling is the same. Where it lay is not known…
Pisgah — Atlas
…the end of the itinerary in Numbers 21:20. ⚠ Hebrew nearly always says ha-Pisgah, THE Pisgah, which suggests it…
