the Week of Proper 22 / Ordinary 27
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Plains
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
abel ("meadow"; compare ABEL MEHOLAH.) Βiqu'ah , the great, plain Coele ("hollow") Syria between Lebanon and Antilebanon; Βikath Αven , Amos 1:5; "the valley (Βiqa'ath ) of Lebanon" (Joshua 11:17; Joshua 12:7), Βiqua'ath Μizpeh (Joshua 11:8); still called el Bekaa, 60 miles long, five broad. Also 2 Chronicles 35:22; Genesis 11:2; Nehemiah 6:2; Daniel 3:1. Ηac Ciccar , the region round about the Jordan valley (Genesis 13:10; Genesis 19:17; Genesis 19:25-29). Ηam Μishor (Deuteronomy 3:10; Deuteronomy 4:43), the smooth (from yaashar , "straight") downs of Moab stretching from Jordan E. of Jericho into the Arabian desert, contrasting with the rugged country W. of Jordan and with the higher lands of Bashan and Argob.
The Belka pasture, regular in its undulations, good in its turf (2 Chronicles 26:10). Ηa 'Αrabah , the Jordan valley and its continuation S. of the Dead Sea. Ηa shephelah , the undulating, rolling, "low hills" between the mountainous part of Judah and the coast plain of the Mediterranean (Deuteronomy 1:7, "the vale"; 2 Chronicles 28:18, "the low country"); Seville in Spain is derived from it. 'Εlon ought to be translated "oak" or "oaks" (Genesis 12:6; Genesis 13:18; Judges 4:11; Judges 9:6; Judges 9:37; 1 Samuel 10:3). Emek the valley of Jezreel (Esdraelon), the eastern part, Megiddo the western part, of the one plain.
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Fausset, Andrew R. Entry for 'Plains'. Fausset's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​fbd/​p/plains.html. 1949.