Concept cluster: History > Biblical sites in Israel
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(biblical) An ancient Canaanite royal city mentioned in the Book of Joshua, popularly believed to be the modern archeological site Et-Tell.
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Alternative form of Asenath [(biblical) An Egyptian woman whom Pharaoh gave to Joseph, son of Jacob, to be his wife, and who bore him two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.]
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(historical) A member of the Hellenistic dynasty that ruled Pergamon in Asia Minor from 282 BCE to around 133 BCE
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An ancient town in Palestine, generally identified with modern Beitin in the West Bank; the site of Abraham's first altar.
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A city in the West Bank, Palestine, believed to be the birthplace of Jesus.
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(biblical) A place near Jerusalem mentioned in the New Testament.
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Alternative form of Bozrah [An ancient biblical city in southern modern-day Jordan, the capital of Edom.]
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An ancient biblical city in southern modern-day Jordan, the capital of Edom.
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A historical region in the Middle East, roughly equivalent to Palestine.
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The portion of Jerusalem controlled by Jordan between 1948 and 1967.
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Alternative spelling of Enûma Eliš. [The ancient Babylonian creation myth.]
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Alternative form of Filastin [(rare) Palestine; a Palestinian transliteration of the Arabic term for Palestine.]
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In certain Syriac Christian churches, the baptistry.
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(historical) The country of the Gerasenes.
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(biblical, quranic) A city in the Middle East which, according to the Hebrew Bible and to Islamic tradition, was destroyed by God (along with Sodom) for the sins of its inhabitants.
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The Temple in Jerusalem.
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The State of Israel, a modern country in the Middle East, at the eastern shore of the Mediterranean.
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Abbreviation of Jerusalem. [A city in the Judean Mountains, between the Mediterranean Sea and the Dead Sea, holy in Judaism, Christianity and Islam; the claimed (and de-facto) capital city of Israel; the claimed capital city of Palestine.]
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A city in the West Bank, Palestine; Judea and Samaria, Israel.
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A city in the Judean Mountains, between the Mediterranean Sea and the Dead Sea, holy in Judaism, Christianity and Islam; the claimed (and de-facto) capital city of Israel; the claimed capital city of Palestine.
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The valley in which this site is located.
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The Israeli parliament, located in Jerusalem.
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An ancient Canaanite and Israelite city in the Shephelah region of Israel, now an archeological site and national park.
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Biblical location, appearing only once in the Bible, in the Book of Genesis (10:19) describing one of the limits of the area covered by the Canaanites, believed to be on the east bank of the Dead Sea, later named Callirrhoe (location of hot springs mentioned by Josephus and other authors in the first centuries AD).
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A custom peculiar to Lebanon.
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A Moabitish place between Zoar and Horonaim mentioned in the Bible. It's probably a hill
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(historical) Name of several notable Achaemenid Persians
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Mount Megiddo, site of an ancient city in northern Israel's Jezreel valley
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A biblical location in northwest Arabia.
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A mountainous region of Jordan.
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An Israeli town or settlement: in particular, a type of cooperative agricultural community of individual farms pioneered by the Labour Zionists during the second aliyah.
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An early Jewish agricultural settlement in pre-Israeli Palestine
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A hill in modern Israel near the kibbutz of Megiddo, known for its historical, geographical, and theological importance.
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Jebel Quruntul, a mountain near Jericho traditionally associated with this event since at least the 4th century.
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A mountain in East Jerusalem, the Mount of Olives.
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A city in northern Israel.
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A region in northern Israel containing Galilee, and Tiberias.
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Noble Sanctuary
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(informal, slang) Palestinian.
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(geography) The region between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River.
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(colloquial) A Palestinian.
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Archaic spelling of Palestine. [(geography) The region between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River.]
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(historical) A portion of biblical king Herod's kingdom, on the eastern side of the Jordan River valley, from about one third the way down from the Sea of Galilee to about one third the way down the eastern shore of the Dead Sea.
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(historical) An ancient Greek city in the Decapolis in modern Jordan; modern Amman.
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An ancient pentapolis in south-western Levant, comprising Ashkelon, Ashdod, Ekron, Gath, and Gaza.
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(uncommon) Alternative form of Sahidic. [A Coptic dialect that was spoken in southern Egypt.]
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The ancient capital of the northern Kingdom of Israel, in the modern West Bank.
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(biblical) An ancient kingdom in Arabia or possibly in Africa.
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A biblical city, the location of the Ark of the Covenant.
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A neighbourhood of East Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel, Palestine
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A mountain in Israel, Mount Tabor
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One of the hills in Jerusalem, where the Biblical king Solomon built his great temple, which the Roman emperor Vespasian's son and successor Titus levelled (except for the Wailing Wall) in 70 C.E. during a failed Jewish rebellion.
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(biblical) A town in Israel
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The portion of Jerusalem controlled by Israel after 1948.
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A native or inhabitant of Zahlé in Lebanon
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Alternative form of Snake Island [Any of several islands with the name]
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A number of modern places named after the Biblical city.

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