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• ARABAH, THE — (Heb. הָעֲרָבָה, Aravah, Ar. al [b]ʿAraba[/b]; (arid) steppe, desert ), name of two stretches of depressed ground extending north and south of the dead sea . The biblical Arabah, except in one instance, refers to the northern Arabah, i.e., the… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• Arabah — The Arabah ( he. הָעֲרָבָה, Tiberian: Unicode|HāʻĂrāḇā; ar. وادي عربة, unicode|Wādī ʻAraba ) is a section of the Great Rift Valley lying between the Dead Sea to the north and the Gulf of Aqaba or the Gulf of Eilat to the south. It forms part of… …   Wikipedia

• Arabah — The desert valley which runs from the Sea of Galilee to the Red Sea was an important trade route from north to south. In Job 24:5 it is translated ‘desert’ by NRSV and NJB and ‘wilderness’ in REB …   Dictionary of the Bible

• Arabah, Wadi Al-ʿ — ▪ region, Palestine Hebrew  Ha ʿarava,         topographic depression in southern Palestine extending about 100 miles (160 km) south from the Dead Sea to the Gulf of Aqaba; it is part of the East African Rift System. Largely sandy desert, it is… …   Universalium

• Arabah —    Plain, in the Revised Version of 2 Kings 14:25; Josh. 3:16; 8:14; 2 Sam. 2:29; 4:7 (in all these passages the A.V. has plain ); Amos 6:14 (A.V. wilderness ). This word is found in the Authorized Version only in Josh. 18:18. It denotes the… …   Easton's Bible Dictionary

• Desert (in the Bible) —     Desert (in the Bible)     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Desert (in the Bible)     The Hebrew words translated in the Douay Version of the Bible by desert or wilderness , and usually rendered by the Vulgate desertum, solitude , or occasionally… …   Catholic encyclopedia

• HISTORICAL SURVEY: THE STATE AND ITS ANTECEDENTS (1880–2006) — Introduction It took the new Jewish nation about 70 years to emerge as the State of Israel. The immediate stimulus that initiated the modern return to Zion was the disappointment, in the last quarter of the 19th century, of the expectation that… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• Biodiversity in Israel, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip — is about the fauna and flora in the geographical region of Israel the West Bank and Gaza Strip. This geographical area extends from the Jordan River and Wadi Araba in the east, to the Mediterranean Sea and the Sinai desert in the west, to Lebanon …   Wikipedia

• History of the Jews in Jordan — The history of the Jews in Jordan can be traced back to Biblical times when much of the geography now in Jordan was part of the history of the Jews in the Land of Israel. Israelite tribesAccording to the Hebrew Bible three of the Israelites… …   Wikipedia

• BET(H)-ARABAH — (modern Bet ha Aravah) (Heb. בֵּית הָעֲרָבָה; House of the Steppe ), place in southern Ereẓ Israel, in the Jericho Desert of the Lower Jordan Valley. The ancient name is preserved in ʿAyn al Gharaba, southeast of Jericho near the Jordan River,… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• Beth-arabah —    House of the desert, one of the six cities of Judah, situated in the sunk valley of the Jordan and Dead Sea (Josh. 18:22). In Josh. 15:61 it is said to have been in the wilderness. It was afterwards included in the towns of Benjamin. It is… …   Easton's Bible Dictionary