TELL EL-AMARNA; TABLETS definitions International Standard Bible Encyclopedia tel-el-a-mar'-na, I. INTRODUCTION 1. Name 2. Discovery 3 ... in private collections. I. Introduction. 1. Name: The name, Tell el-Armarna, "the hill Amarna," is the modern name of ancient ... 1887 a peasant woman, digging in the ruins of Tell el-Amarna for the dust of ancient buildings with which to ... city was excavated by Professor Petrie in 1891-92 (Tell el-Amarna; compare also Baedeker, Egypt). 3. Physical Character: The physical ... first finger. The results of the discovery of the Tell el-Amarna Letters have been far-reaching, and there are ...
... verb with some Divine name or title (in this case 'El) as the subject, from which the common abbreviated form is ... which in Egyptian characters represents the Semitic letters ya`aqobh-'el, and which therefore seems to show that in the earlier ... Hyksos period bears a name that looks like ya`aqobh-'el (Spiegelberg, Orientalische Literaturzeitung, VII, 130). (c) In the Jewish tractate ... felt to be the subject of the verb As Jacob-el, the simplest interpretation of the name is undoubtedly, as Baethgen ... to come first; for the dream of Jacob at Beth-el was of course but the opening scene in the long ... fullest manifestation to Jacob was just "the God of Beth-el" (Ge 35:7; 48:3; 49:24). With the ...
El-beth-el definitions Hitchcock Bible Dictionary the God of Bethel International Standard Bible Encyclopedia el-beth'-el (el beth-'el, "God of Bethel"; Baithel): By this name Jacob called ...
El Salvador definitions Flags of the World Flag of El Salvador CIA World Factbook, 2008 Background El Salvador achieved independence from Spain in 1821 and from the ... Climate lowest point: Pacific Ocean 0 m highest point: Cerro El Pital 2,730 m Natural resources arable land: 31.37 ... 1992, there were an estimated 1 million Protestant evangelicals in El Salvador Languages definition: age 10 and over can read and ... 7% (2003 est.) Country name conventional long form: Republic of El Salvador conventional short form: El Salvador local long form: ...
El-elohe-Israel definitions Hitchcock Bible Dictionary God, the God of Israel International Standard Bible Encyclopedia el-e-lo'-he-iz'-ra-el, el-el'-o-he-iz'-ra-el ('el 'elohe yisra'el, translated "God, the God of ...
... NAMES OF GOD IN THE OLD TESTAMENT 1. 'Elohim 2. 'El 3. 'Eloah 4. 'Adhon, 'Adhonay 5. Yahweh (Yahweh) 6. Tsur ... NAMES OF GOD IN THE OLD TESTAMENT 1. 'Abhir 2. 'El-'Elohe-Yisra'el 3. `Elyon 4. Gibbor 5. 'El-ro'i 6. Tsaddiq 7. Qanna' 8. Yahweh Tsebha'oth ... of a group of kindred words, to which belong also 'El and 'Eloah. (1) Its form is plural, but the construction ... elah, "terebinth"; it is then an expanded plural form of 'el; others trace it to 'alah, "to terrify," and the ...
... city of God," the "holy city;" by the modern Arabs el-Khuds, meaning "the holy;" once "the city of Judah" (2 ... under the dominion of the Mohammedans, when it was called el-Khuds, i.e., "the holy." In A.D. 326 Helena ... that name in the Book of Joshua, and the Tell-el-Amarna collection of tablets includes six letters from its Amorite ... Pool of Bethesda 10. The Twin Pools 11. Birket Chammam el BaTrak 12. Birket Mamilla 13. Birket es Sultan 14. "Solomon ... 7. Other Antiquities 8. Ecclesiastical Sites IX. HISTORY 1. Tell el-Amarna Correspondence 2. Joshua's Conquest 3. Site of the ... Cuneiform: The earliest mention of Jerusalem is in the Tell el-Amarna Letters (1450 BC), where it appears in the ...
... short vowel in a closed unaccented syllable, as in Mahalal'el, "praise of God"; allows contraction, as in Beth-el, "house of God"; and occasions the return of a segholate ... elyaqim, 'elyahba', and yehoyakhin (subject and imperfect); gedhalyah, yekholyahu, barakh'el, in which the first vowel is protected by the implied reduplication of the Piel species, benayah, `asah'el, and `asah-'el, `asi'el, chazah'el and chaza'-el and pedhah'el (perfect ...
... Jebel Usdum (Mount of Sodom) 5. Vale of Siddim 6. El-Lisan VIII. HISTORY LITERATURE The name given by Greek and ... down to less than 2 miles opposite Point Molyneux on el-Lisan. Its area is approximately 300 square miles. From various ... thirds of the distance to the southern end, the peninsula, el-Lisan ("the Tongue"), projects from the East more than half ... of the Sea of Galilee. A mile north of Jisr el-Mujamiyeh, as the modern railroad bridge is called, a tilted ... that formerly there was a well-known causeway leading from el-Lisan opposite Wady Kerak to Wady Umm Baghek, across which ... bring in an immense amount of sediment from the East; el-Hessi, el-Jeib and el-Fikri from the South; ...
IPHTAH-EL definitions International Standard Bible Encyclopedia if'-ta-el (yiphtach-'el; the King James Version Jiphtah-el): The valley of Iphtah-el lay on the North border of Zebulun (Jos 19:14,27). Northwest of the plain of el-Battauf stands a steep hill, connected only by a ...
El Dorado definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: an ... opportunity; sought in South America by 16th-century explorers [syn: El Dorado, eldorado] Merriam Webster's noun Etymology: Spanish, literally, the ... place of fabulous wealth or opportunity Webster's 1913 Dictionary El Dorado El` Do*ra"do, pl. El Doradoes. [Sp., lit., the gilt (sc. land); el the + dorado gilt, p. p. of dorare to gild. ...
PARAN, EL-PARAN definitions International Standard Bible Encyclopedia pa'-ran, (pa'ran, 'el-pa'ran; Pharan): (1) El-paran (Ge 14:6) was the point farthest South reached by the kings. Septuagint renders 'el by terebinthos, and reads, "unto the terebinth of Paran." The ... 2:8; 1Ki 9:26, etc.) called Elath or Eloth ('el with feminine termination), a seaport town which gave its name ... the Gulf of `Aqaba. This is the more probable if El-paran is rightly identified with Elath. (4) Some place ...
El Doradoes definitions Webster's 1913 Dictionary El Dorado El` Do*ra"do, pl. El Doradoes. [Sp., lit., the gilt (sc. land); el the + dorado gilt, p. p. of dorare to gild. Cf ... wealth; exceeding richness. The whole comedy is a sort of El Dorado of wit. --T. Moore.