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4 results- PlaceUrThe city of the moon god in southern Mesopotamia that Abram was called out of, the place Scripture names as Ur of the Chaldees and Stephen names as the land where the God of…
- PlaceHaranThe city in upper Mesopotamia where Terah died and Abram received his call, where Jacob served Laban twenty years for his wives and flocks, and which the prophets later name…
- PlaceBabylonAncient Mesopotamian city and imperial capital; site of the Israelite exile and a recurring biblical symbol of worldly power.
- PlaceAssyriaMesopotamian empire whose capital Nineveh repented at Jonah's preaching and fell to Nahum's burden in 612 BC; the rod of God's anger against the northern kingdom (722 BC).
Words (Strong's)
16 results- WordH763 אֲרַם נַהֲרַיִם · ʼĂram Nahărayim (Hebrew)Aram of (the) two rivers (Euphrates and Tigris) or Mesopotamia. The Hebrew word stands 8 times in the original text.
- WordG3318 Μεσοποταμία · Mesopotamía (Greek)Mesopotamia (as lying between the Euphrates and the Tigris. The Greek word stands 2 times in the original text.
- WordH758 אֲרָם · ʼĂrâm (Hebrew)Aram or Syria, and its inhabitants. The Hebrew word stands 143 times in the original text.
- WordH1109 בִּלְעָם · Bilʻâm (Hebrew)Bilam, a Mesopotamian prophet. The Hebrew word stands 61 times in the original text.
- WordH3529 כְּבָר · Kᵉbâr (Hebrew)Kebar, a river of Mesopotamia. The Hebrew word stands 8 times in the original text.
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5 results- VoiceIshodad of MervIshodad was bishop of Hadatha, on the Tigris in what is now Iraq, in the middle of the ninth century. He was a member of the Church of the East, the great Syriac-speaking…
- VoiceArchelaus of CarrhaeIn the third century a Persian prophet named Mani announced a new religion. It taught two eternal powers, light and darkness, locked in a war that had produced the world; it…
- VoiceHegemoniusHegemonius is the name attached to a book called the *Acts of Archelaus*, written in the first half of the fourth century. Nothing about the man survives; the name comes from…
- VoiceBasil of CaesareaBasil was born about 330 at Caesarea in Cappadocia, in the middle of what is now Turkey, into a wealthy landowning family that produced more saints than most centuries do. His…
- VoiceSahdona the SyrianSahdona — the Syriac name means roughly the same as the Greek Martyrius, and he is known by both — came from Halmon in the region of Beth Nuhadra, in what is now northern Iraq…
Apocrypha (study resources)
4 results- Study resourceJudith 5:7And they sojourned heretofore in Mesopotamia, because they would not follow the gods of their fathers, which were in the land of Chaldea.
- Study resourceJudith 2:24Then he went over Euphrates, and went through Mesopotamia, and destroyed all the high cities that were upon the river Arbonai, till ye come to the sea.
- Study resourceJudith 8:26Remember what things he did to Abraham, and how he tried Isaac, and what happened to Jacob in Mesopotamia of Syria, when he kept the sheep of Laban his mother’s brother.
- Study resourceJudith 5:8For they left the way of their ancestors, and worshipped the God of heaven, the God whom they knew: so they cast them out from the face of their gods, and they fled into…
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H763אֲרַם נַהֲרַיִם ʼĂram Nahărayim — Aram of (the) two rivers (Euphrates and Tigris) or MesopotamiaG3318Μεσοποταμία Mesopotamía — Mesopotamia (as lying between the Euphrates and
the TigrisH758אֲרָם ʼĂrâm — Aram or Syria, and its inhabitantsH1109בִּלְעָם Bilʻâm — Bilam, a Mesopotamian prophetH3529כְּבָר Kᵉbâr — Kebar, a river of MesopotamiaH3573כּוּשַׁן רִשְׁעָתַיִם Kûwshan Rishʻâthayim — Cushan-Rishathajim, a Mesopotamian king