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Arvad
American Tract Society Bible Dictionary
A Phoenician city, on a small rocky island at the mouth of the river Eleutherus, twenty-two miles north of Tripolis. It is now called Ruad, and is but a ruin. The Arvadites also occupied the adjacent coast. They were descendants of Canaan, Genesis 10:18; 1 Chronicles 1:16; and were noted mariners, Ezekiel 27:8,11 .
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Rand, W. W. Entry for 'Arvad'. American Tract Society Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ats/a/arvad.html. 1859.