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AVEN (Settlement) BiblicalA
Biblical place name meaning "vanity", "nothingness", "iniquity" and "sorrow"....
[more] CANAAN כְּנַעַן (Region) English, BiblicalMeaning unknown, though it may derive from the Semitic root
knʿ ("to be low, humble, subjugated"). This was the name of a Semitic-speaking civilization and region in the Ancient Near East during the late 2nd millennium BC.
GEHENNA (Other) Biblical, Judeo-Christian LegendLatin form of the Greek Γέεννα
(Géenna), from a contracted form of Hebrew גֵּיא בֶן הִנֹּם
(gē ḇen hinnōm) meaning "valley of the son of Hinnom". This is the name of hell in Judeo-Christian-Islamic tradition, taken from the name of a valley outside Jerusalem which was filled with the waste of the city, which was then burnt...
[more] JUDEA יהודה (Region) Biblical, EnglishFrom a Greek and Roman adaptation of the name
JUDAH, ultimately from Hebrew
Yehudah. This was/is the name of a mountainous southern part of the region of
PALESTINE.
PALESTINE פלשתינה (Region) English, Biblical, FrenchFrom Hebrew
Pelesheth, which probably means "land of the Philistines". This is the name of a historical/geographic region in Western Asia....
[more] PHILISTIA פלשת (Region) English, BiblicalFrom Hebrew
Pleshet. This was the name of a confederation of cities in Southwest Levant inhabited by the Philistines. See also
PALESTINE.
SECACAH (Settlement) BiblicalA Hebrew girl's name, originating in Israel, meaning "covering, defense"
SILOAM Σιλωάμ (Body of Water) BiblicalHellenized form of Hebrew שִׁלֻּחָה
(Shiloach), derived from שילח
(shileach) "to send out" and interpreted as meaning "a sending out, gushing forth (of water)". According to the Gospel of John in the New Testament, the Pool of Siloam was a spring in the southeast corner of Jerusalem where Jesus sent the "man born blind" to wash and receive sight...
[more] SINAI סִינַי (Region & Mountain) Biblical, Hebrew, Albanian, Danish, English, German, Italian, Luxembourgish, Norwegian, Portuguese, Romanian, SwedishBiblical place name, both the mountain upon which
Moses receives the Ten Commandments from God and the desert where it is located, found between Canaan and Egypt....
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