Dumah
DUMAHdu'-ma (dumah, "silence"): This word occurs in the Old Testament with the following significations:(1) the land of silence or death,...
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Dumah 2 (Arabia)
ARABIAa-ra'-bi-a (`arabh, Arabia):I. NAME AND SITUATION1. Name2. Situation and ConfigurationII. PHYSICAL FEATURES1. The Desert2. Climate3...
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Dung Gate (Jerusalem)
DUNG; DUNG GATEdung ('ashpoth, domen, peresh; skubalon, etc.): Nine different words occurring in the Hebrew have been translated "dung" i...
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Dura (Babylon)
DURAdu'-ra (dura'): The name of the plain on which Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, set up the great golden image which all his subjects...
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East Gate (Jerusalem)
GATE, EASTThe expressions are found in Ezekiel: "Even the gate that looketh toward the east" (43:1); "The gate whose prospect is toward t...
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Ebenezer
EBEN-EZEReb-en-e'-zer ('ebhen ha-`ezer, "stone of the help"; Abenezer):(1) Here Israel was defeated by the Philistines, 4,000 men falling...
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Ebez
EBEZe'-bez ('ebhets, meaning unknown; Rhebes; the King James Version Abez):One of the 16 cities in Issachar (Joshua 19:20). The name seem...
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Ebron (Abdon)
EBRONe'-brun (`ebhron; the King James Version wrongly, Hebron):A town in the territory of Asher (Joshua 19:28). Probably we should read h...
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Ecbatana
ACHMETHAak'-me-tha (Ezra 6:2; 'achmetha'; Septuagint Amatha; Peshitta achmathan; in Tiglath Pileser's inscription circa 1100 B.C. Amadana...
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Eder 2 (Adadah)
ADADAHa-da'-da (`adh`adhah): A city in the southern part of Judah (Joshua 15:22). The older copies of the Greek text have Arouel, but tha...
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