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Phoenicia — Atlas

…the alphabet that became the ancestor of both the Hebrew and Greek scripts this whole translation is made from. The…

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Kittim — Atlas

…Larnaca — and then, as the horizon widened, a general Hebrew word for a sea power coming from the west. Numbers…

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Lydda — Atlas

…Lord’ (9:35). ⚠ Reference works identify Lydda with the Hebrew Bible’s Lod and with modern Lod; that is reported…

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Enaim — Atlas

…The Hebrew petach einayim is 'the entrance of Enaim,' a real town; but einayim is also the ordinary word for…

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Zion — Encyclopedia

…the western ridge — a Byzantine-era identification, not the biblical one. Isaiah uses the name about forty-five times, more…

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The Salt Sea — Atlas

…seawater, which is the plain fact behind both the Hebrew name and the English one. ⚠ Genesis 14:3, already on…

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Bezer — Atlas

…of Reuben” where Deuteronomy wrote “for the Reubenites.” The Hebrew of Joshua 21 does not name it among the Levites…

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Argob — Atlas

…takes it and renames its villages Havvoth-jair. ⚠ The Hebrew has no settled etymology; a connection to regeb, 'clod' or…

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Hepher — Atlas

…or three names that happen to share a common Hebrew word for 'a pit, a shame' is not stated, and…

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