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(historical) A member of a ninth-century group of Syrian monks who were exterminated by the iconoclastic emperor Theophilus.
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The potter's field, said to have lain south of Jerusalem, purchased with the bribe which Judas took for betraying his master, and therefore called the field of blood.
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(biblical) An inhabitant of Adullam. Near this town there was a cave where David and his allies sought refuge from Saul.
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(biblical) A city noted for Baal-worship, located at the most northern or northwestern point to which Joshua's victories extended.
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(biblical) The city and tower in the land of Shinar where the confusion of languages took place, according to the Bible.
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A biblical city seven miles northwest of Jerusalem; an ancient Hivite settlement, mentioned in Joshua 9:17, 18:25, 2 Samuel 4:2-3, Ezra 2:25 and Nehemiah 7:29.
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Alternative form of Belisarius [(historical) a general of the Byzantine Empire, who was instrumental to Emperor Justinian's ambitious project of reconquering much of the Mediterranean territory of the former Western Roman Empire, which had been lost less than a century previously]
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(biblical) The village where Lazarus, Mary and Martha lived (Bible, John 11 v. 1)
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(historical) A person from Bethel in Palestine.
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An inhabitant of Bethlehem in Judea.
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(biblical) Alternative form of Bethesda. [(biblical) A pool in Jerusalem mentioned in the New Testament.]
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The hill outside Jerusalem which is traditionally held to be the location of the crucifixion of Jesus.
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An ancient Semitic people who occupied Canaan before its conquest by Israelites.
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An idiom or peculiarity in the Chaldee dialect.
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(biblical) A diviner or astrologer.
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A Chaldean; a native of ancient Chaldea.
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Alternative spelling of Hamito-Semitic. [(dated, linguistics) Afroasiatic]
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An ancient king of Persia, Cyrus the Great.
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A shrine, located on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, which contains the Foundation Stone.
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(rare, possibly obsolete) A member of the Druze people.
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(religion) A secretive religious community based mainly in the Middle East, specifically Lebanon, Syria, and Israel.
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(historical) A region whose inhabitants, the Edomites, traditionally traced their ancestry to Esau.
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(historical, biblical, Judaism) An oasis in Sinai, New Kingdom, Egyptian Empire; Hebrew אֵילִם
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(biblical) A member of a minor biblical tribe mentioned in Nahum 1:1.
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a major Palestinian political party and the largest faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).
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A biblical location in ancient Jerusalem, a garden at the foot of the Mount of Olives where, according to the four Gospels of the New Testament, Jesus underwent the agony in the garden and was arrested the night before his crucifixion.
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An inhabitant of the ancient city of Gibeon.
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(biblical) A region east of the Jordan river.
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(biblical) The site of Joshua's encampment before the siege of Jericho.
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(Christianity) The oldest of the current gates in Jerusalem's Old City Walls, through which, according to Jewish tradition, the shekinah used to appear and will appear again when the Messiah comes.
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(biblical) The Land of Goshen.
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A descendant of the biblical Hebron.
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Alternative form of Elcesaite [(historical) A member of an ancient Jewish-Christian sect, possibly related to the Ebionites, in Sassanid southern Mesopotamia.]
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Israel's national trade union centre, representing the majority of trade unionists in the State of Israel.
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(historical) A member of one group of descendants of Canaan, son of Ham, according to the Table of Nations in Genesis 10 (10:17) in the Bible.
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(Judaism, Christianity, Islam) That part of the Middle East, consisting mostly of Israel and Palestine, in which most Biblical events are set.
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(historical) A region south of Judea inhabited by the Edomites during the Hellenistic period and Roman occupation.
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Of or pertaining to ancient Idumea or Edom, a historical region south of Judea and the Dead Sea, mentioned in the Bible
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(historical) An ancient kingdom that occupied roughly the same area in ancient times.
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A placeholder name used in Israel for a person whose identity is not known, in the same way as John Doe in the United States and Joe Bloggs in the United Kingdom.
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Obsolete spelling of Israel [The State of Israel, a modern country in the Middle East, at the eastern shore of the Mediterranean.]
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(rare) A hypothetical joint state of Israel and Palestine.
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(non-native speakers' English) Israel.
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Alternative spelling of Japhetic [(obsolete, ethnography) Of or pertaining to the supposed descendants of Japheth, one of the three sons of Noah in the Bible.]
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A placename, said in the Bible to have been the name of Jerusalem prior to its conquest by Joshua and David.
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A centrist political party in Israel.
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(historical) A commander under king Darius
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Alternative form of Melkite [(historical) In 5th-century Syria and Egypt, a sobriquet applied to Chalcedonians by their opponents, denoting the Chalcedonians' fidelity to the Byzantine emperor.]
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A member of an ancient northern Arabian people.
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A mountain ridge east of and adjacent to the Old City of Jerusalem, a holy place for both Judaism and Christianity.
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(Judaism) Ezekiel's prophetic vision of a city centred on the rebuilt Holy Temple, the Third Temple, to be established in Jerusalem, which would be the capital of the Messianic Kingdom, the meeting place of the twelve tribes of Israel, during the Messianic era.
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(biblical) A place, north of Jerusalem, where the inhabitants were massacred by Saul.
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The Temple Mount, when viewed as an Islamic holy site (specifically, the third holiest site in Islam).
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Septimius Odaenathus, the first king of the Palmyrene kingdom, who reigned from A.D. 260 to A. D. 267
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(historical, Christianity) A city or region mentioned in the Bible, famous for its gold.
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(informal, slang) Palestine.
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The territory of the State of Israel, West Bank and Gaza Strip combined, the homeland of the Palestinian people.
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(now chiefly historical) The academic study of Biblical archaeology in the Holy Land.
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(historical) The elite fighting force of the Haganah during the period of the British Mandate for Palestine.
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(uncommon) Alternative form of Pharisean
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A Philistine (person from Philistia).
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Alternative spelling of Sadducean [Of, like, or pertaining to the Sadducees.]
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The biblical place ruled by Melchizedek; mostly identified with Jerusalem.
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The Jewish holy temple, which stood on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, between c. 516 BCE and c. 70 CE.
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A member of any of a number of peoples of ancient southwestern Asia and East Africa such as the Akkadians, Assyrians, Arameans, Phoenicians, Canaanites, Hebrews, Arabs and Aksumites.
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Israel's internal security service.
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An extinct Hebrew-script variant of Provençal used by Jews in France, also called Judeo-Provençal or Judeo-Comtadine.
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(biblical) (in some versions) Sinai
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A mountain in Sinai Peninsula; the location where Moses is said to have received the Ten Commandments from God.
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(biblical, Quranic) A city in the Middle East which, according to the Bible and Islamic tradition, but not specifically named in the Qur'an, was destroyed by God (along with Gomorrah) for the sins of its inhabitants.
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An inhabitant of Sodom, or (by extension) a descendant of one.
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A member of the House of Solomon, the former Imperial House of Ethiopia, claiming lineal descent from Solomon of Israel and the Queen of Sheba.
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The country established in West Bank and Gaza Strip, including occupied Palestinian territories and those under the jurisdiction of the Palestinian National Authority.
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(Biblical studies) An abbreviation for an early Syriac translation of the Bible known as "Sinaitic Syriac".
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A particular building complex once in Jerusalem, then a center of Jewish religious life.
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(historical) A village in the central mountain areas of Palestine that served as a seat of political and military power for the sheiks of rural subdistricts, primarily during the latter half of Ottoman rule.
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(Judaism) The most common typeface for printed Hebrew, and the Sephardi Stam script from which the typeface is derived.
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(Judaism, possibly offensive) The Western Wall.
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(Judaism) An ancient wall on the western side of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, remnant of the Jewish Second Temple. It is the holiest site in Judaism.
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(historical) Xerxes I, a Persian king of the Achaemenid dynasty who reigned 485-465 BC.
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A landmark hill (or "mount") in the land of Israel on which ancient Jerusalem was partly built, a centerpiece to Biblical accounts of old days and future eschatological events.
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