Mesopotamia (8 Occurrences)

... Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. MESOPOTAMIA. mes-o-ta'-mi-a. See SYRIA. Multi-Version Concordance Mesopotamia (8 Occurrences). ... biblethesaurus.org/m/mesopotamia.htm - 11k

Mesopota'mia (7 Occurrences)

Mesopota'mia. << Mesopotamia, Mesopota'mia. Mess >>. Multi-Version Concordance Mesopota'mia (7 Occurrences). Acts 2:9 Parthians, and ... biblethesaurus.org/m/mesopota'mia.htm - 8k

Naharaim (5 Occurrences)

... in his hand. And he arose, and went to Mesopotamia, unto the city of Nahor. (See JPS DBY YLT NIV). Deuteronomy 23:4 because they ... biblethesaurus.org/n/naharaim.htm - 8k

Chushanrishathaim (2 Occurrences)

... Cush of double wickedness, or governor of two presidencies, the king of Mesopotamia who oppressed Israel in the generation immediately following Joshua (Judges ... biblethesaurus.org/c/chushanrishathaim.htm - 8k

Chushan-rishathaim (2 Occurrences)

... Cush of double wickedness, or governor of two presidencies, the king of Mesopotamia who oppressed Israel in the generation immediately following Joshua (Judges ... biblethesaurus.org/c/chushan-rishathaim.htm - 8k

Othniel (7 Occurrences)

... Some thirty years after the death of Joshua, the Israelites fell under the subjection of Chushan-rishathaim (qv), the king of Mesopotamia. ... biblethesaurus.org/o/othniel.htm - 10k

Cushan-rishathaim (2 Occurrences)

... he of the twofold crime"; Septuagint Chousarsathaim, the King James Version Chushan-rishathaim): Mentioned in Judges 3:8-10 as a king of Mesopotamia who was ... biblethesaurus.org/c/cushan-rishathaim.htm - 8k

Aram-naharaim (5 Occurrences)

... Aram of the two rivers, is Mesopotamia (as it is rendered in Genesis 24:10), the country enclosed between the Tigris on the east and the Euphrates on the west ... biblethesaurus.org/a/aram-naharaim.htm - 9k

Ur (5 Occurrences)

... or Harran. Harran was in Mesopotamia, and took its name from the highroad which led through it from the east to the west. The name ... biblethesaurus.org/u/ur.htm - 15k

Parthians (1 Occurrence)

... in Josephus, and they had an important connection with the history of the Jews, on account of the large colonies of the latter in Mesopotamia, and the ... biblethesaurus.org/p/parthians.htm - 16k

Hammurabi

... Inauguration of His Image 4. The Capture of Rim-Sin 5. Various Works, and an Expedition to Mesopotamia 6. His Final Years 7. No Record of His Expedition to ... biblethesaurus.org/h/hammurabi.htm - 47k

Dispersion (4 Occurrences)

... Antiochus the Great, king of Syria and Asia, removed 3,000 families of Jews from Mesopotamia and Babylonia, and planted them in Phrygia and Lydia. ... biblethesaurus.org/d/dispersion.htm - 44k

Laban (52 Occurrences)

... (1.) The son of Bethuel, who was the son of Nahor, Abraham's brother. He lived at Haran in Mesopotamia. His sister Rebekah was Isaac's wife (Genesis 24). ... biblethesaurus.org/l/laban.htm - 28k

Tigris (2 Occurrences)

... apocryphal books, as in Tob 6:1; Judith 1:6; Ecclesiasticus 24:25, called Diglath in Josephus, and Diglit in Pliny, now called in Mesopotamia Dijleh, generally ... biblethesaurus.org/t/tigris.htm - 9k

Tikvath (1 Occurrence)

... apocryphal books, as in Tob 6:1; Judith 1:6; Ecclesiasticus 24:25, called Diglath in Josephus, and Diglit in Pliny, now called in Mesopotamia Dijleh, generally ... biblethesaurus.org/t/tikvath.htm - 9k

Tikvah (2 Occurrences)

... apocryphal books, as in Tob 6:1; Judith 1:6; Ecclesiasticus 24:25, called Diglath in Josephus, and Diglit in Pliny, now called in Mesopotamia Dijleh, generally ... biblethesaurus.org/t/tikvah.htm - 10k

Telassar (2 Occurrences)

... Some have identified it with Tel Afer, a place in Mesopotamia, some 30 miles from Sinjar. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. TELASSAR. ... biblethesaurus.org/t/telassar.htm - 9k

Rishathaim (2 Occurrences)

... Judges 3:8 Therefore the anger of Yahweh was kindled against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Cushan Rishathaim king of Mesopotamia: and the children ... biblethesaurus.org/r/rishathaim.htm - 7k

Epistles (2 Occurrences)

... But the case was different when the Christian Church came to consist of a number of scattered parts, stretching from Mesopotamia in the east to Rome or even ... biblethesaurus.org/e/epistles.htm - 80k

Eden (19 Occurrences)

... Inasmuch as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph were in Mesopotamia it would seem probable that "the children of Eden that were in Telassar" belonged to the same ... biblethesaurus.org/e/eden.htm - 28k

East (228 Occurrences)

... In Genesis 25:6 "eastward" is literally "unto the land of kedem;" ie, the lands lying east of Palestine, namely, Arabia, Mesopotamia, etc. ... biblethesaurus.org/e/east.htm - 51k

Dwelling (340 Occurrences)

... Acts 2:9 Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and those dwelling in Mesopotamia, in Judea also, and Cappadocia, Pontus, and Asia, (YLT). ... biblethesaurus.org/d/dwelling.htm - 36k

Mash (2 Occurrences)

... 1 Chronicles 1:17), one of the four sons of Aram, and the name of a tribe descended from him (Genesis 10:23) inhabiting some part probably of Mesopotamia. ... biblethesaurus.org/m/mash.htm - 8k

Pethor (2 Occurrences)

... true; they shall not fail to come to pass." 1. Possibly the Asyrian Pitru: In Deuteronomy 23:4, it is further described as being in Mesopotamia (Aram-naharaim ... biblethesaurus.org/p/pethor.htm - 10k

Paddanaram

... pad'-an-a'-ram or p.-ar'-am (paddan 'aram; Septuagint Mesopotamia tes Surias; the King James Version Padan-aram): In Genesis 48:7, Paddan stands alone, but as ... biblethesaurus.org/p/paddanaram.htm - 8k

Paddan-aram (10 Occurrences)

... pad'-an-a'-ram or p.-ar'-am (paddan 'aram; Septuagint Mesopotamia tes Surias; the King James Version Padan-aram): In Genesis 48:7, Paddan stands alone, but as ... biblethesaurus.org/p/paddan-aram.htm - 10k

Chaldees (13 Occurrences)

... said was called by some Ouria. Stephen (Acts 7:2, 4) regarded the place as being in Mesopotamia. The Talmud, however, as well as ... biblethesaurus.org/c/chaldees.htm - 15k

Chebar (8 Occurrences)

... opinion that has much to support it is that the "Chebar" was the royal canal of Nebuchadnezzar, the Nahr Malcha, the greatest in Mesopotamia, which connected ... biblethesaurus.org/c/chebar.htm - 10k

Cushan (3 Occurrences)

... Judges 3:8 Therefore the anger of Yahweh was kindled against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Cushan Rishathaim king of Mesopotamia: and the children ... biblethesaurus.org/c/cushan.htm - 8k

Aramaic (12 Occurrences)

... 1. (a.) Pertaining to Aram, or to the territory, inhabitants, language, or literature of Syria and Mesopotamia; Aramaean; -- specifically applied to the ... biblethesaurus.org/a/aramaic.htm - 31k

Babylon (270 Occurrences)

... The Elamites invaded Chaldea (ie, Lower Mesopotamia, or Shinar, and Upper Mesopotamia, or Accad, now combined into one) and held it in subjection. ... biblethesaurus.org/b/babylon.htm - 93k

Esau (89 Occurrences)

... Rebekah had shrewdly used this fact to induce Isaac to fall in with her plan to send Jacob to Mesopotamia; and Esau, seeing this, seems to have thought he ... biblethesaurus.org/e/esau.htm - 41k

Zoology

... The fallow deer exists in Mesopotamia, and Tristram says that he saw it in Galilee, though the writer is inclined to question the accuracy of the observation. ... biblethesaurus.org/z/zoology.htm - 18k

Semites

... of the middle Mesopotamian plateau until the invasion of the Babylonian colonists and civilization; Aram found a home in Upper Mesopotamia; while Arpachshad ... biblethesaurus.org/s/semites.htm - 27k

Semitic

... of the middle Mesopotamian plateau until the invasion of the Babylonian colonists and civilization; Aram found a home in Upper Mesopotamia; while Arpachshad ... biblethesaurus.org/s/semitic.htm - 28k

Medes (15 Occurrences)

... His successor Nabu-nahid (555 BC) says that in that year the Medes under Astyages (Ishtuwegu) entered Mesopotamia and besieged Haran. ... biblethesaurus.org/m/medes.htm - 18k

Haran (19 Occurrences)

... It stood on the river Belik, an affluent of the Euphrates, about 70 miles above where it joins that river in Upper Mesopotamia or Padan-aram, and about 600 ... biblethesaurus.org/h/haran.htm - 17k

Crafts (2 Occurrences)

... handicraft in their records, but the explorers of recent years have revealed many examples of the remarkable workmanship of the early inhabitants of Mesopotamia... biblethesaurus.org/c/crafts.htm - 30k

Syria (73 Occurrences)

...Mesopotamia is called (Genesis 24:10; Deuteronomy 23:4) Aram-naharain (=Syria of the two rivers), also Padan-aram (Genesis 25:20). ... biblethesaurus.org/s/syria.htm - 60k

Aram (130 Occurrences)

... of Palestine to the Euphrates. It corresponded generally with the Syria and Mesopotamia of the Greeks and Romans. In Genesis 25:20 ... biblethesaurus.org/a/aram.htm - 40k

Syrians (63 Occurrences)

... in general, the region to the East of the Jordan, but extending in the North over most of Northern Syria, or from the Orontes eastward, and Northern Mesopotamia... biblethesaurus.org/s/syrians.htm - 37k

Balaam (62 Occurrences)

... He resided at Pethor (Deuteronomy 23:4), in Mesopotamia (Numbers 23:7). It is evident that though dwelling among idolaters he had some knowledge of the true God ... biblethesaurus.org/b/balaam.htm - 38k

Elamites (2 Occurrences)

... 3. Mountain Ranges: The Pusht-e-Kuh mountains are a series of very high parallel ranges described as "a veritable wall" between Mesopotamia and the elevated ... biblethesaurus.org/e/elamites.htm - 39k

Elam (24 Occurrences)

... 3. Mountain Ranges: The Pusht-e-Kuh mountains are a series of very high parallel ranges described as "a veritable wall" between Mesopotamia and the elevated ... biblethesaurus.org/e/elam.htm - 48k

Variety (1 Occurrence)

... departed, having a variety of good things of his master's with him. He arose, and went to Mesopotamia, to the city of Nahor. (WEB NAS). ... biblethesaurus.org/v/variety.htm - 7k

Nimrod (4 Occurrences)

... since to his name had attached itself the proverb: "Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before Yahweh" (Genesis 10:9). In the primitive days of Mesopotamia, as also in ... biblethesaurus.org/n/nimrod.htm - 11k

Nahor (18 Occurrences)

... master's with him. He arose, and went to Mesopotamia, to the city of Nahor. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV). Genesis 24 ... biblethesaurus.org/n/nahor.htm - 13k

Uz (8 Occurrences)

... The Chaldeans (kasdim, descendants of Chesed, son of Nahor, Genesis 22:22) inhabited Mesopotamia; a branch of the Sabeans also appears to have taken up its ... biblethesaurus.org/u/uz.htm - 14k

Odious (9 Occurrences)

... themselves odious to David, Hanun and the children of Ammon sent one thousand talents of silver to hire them chariots and horsemen out of Mesopotamia, and out ... biblethesaurus.org/o/odious.htm - 9k

Overpowered (12 Occurrences)

... the spirit of the Lord came on him and he became judge of Israel, and went out to war, and the Lord gave up Cushan-rishathaim, king of Mesopotamia, into his ... biblethesaurus.org/o/overpowered.htm - 10k

Jacob (361 Occurrences)

... to his home in Padanaram. And now all connection of the Israelites with Mesopotamia is at an end. Soon after parting with Laban ... biblethesaurus.org/j/jacob.htm - 77k

Lion (92 Occurrences)

... Britain. Its present range extends throughout Africa, and it is also found in Mesopotamia, Southern Persia, and the border of India. ... biblethesaurus.org/l/lion.htm - 46k

Gozan (5 Occurrences)

... 37:12). It was situated in Mesopotamia, on the river Habor (2 Kings 17:6; 18:11), the Khabur, a tributary of the Euphrates. The ... biblethesaurus.org/g/gozan.htm - 10k

Gopher (1 Occurrence)

... name given to the boats made of interwoven willow branches and palm leaves with a coating of bitumen outside, used today on the rivers and canals of Mesopotamia... biblethesaurus.org/g/gopher.htm - 9k

Gourd (4 Occurrences)

... vinelike plant which may frequently be seen trained over the rough temporary sun-shelters erected in fields or by the roadside in Palestine and Mesopotamia. ... biblethesaurus.org/g/gourd.htm - 12k

Geology

... the sea. During the Quaternary period the Nile and the rivers of Mesopotamia have added large areas to the land surface. 1. Crystalline ... biblethesaurus.org/g/geology.htm - 16k

Glorious (91 Occurrences)

... me. God Most Glorious appeared to our forefather Abraham when he was living in Mesopotamia, before he settled in Haran, (WEY). Romans ... biblethesaurus.org/g/glorious.htm - 34k

Wood (226 Occurrences)

... name given to the boats made of interwoven willow branches and palm leaves with a coating of bitumen outside, used today on the rivers and canals of Mesopotamia... biblethesaurus.org/w/wood.htm - 42k

Inhabitants (254 Occurrences)

... Elamites. Some are inhabitants of Mesopotamia, of Judaea or Cappadocia, of Pontus or the Asian Province, of Phrygia or Pamphylia, (WEY). ... biblethesaurus.org/i/inhabitants.htm - 41k

Inhabit (29 Occurrences)

... Some are inhabitants of Mesopotamia, of Judaea or Cappadocia, of Pontus or the Asian Province, of Phrygia or Pamphylia, (Root in WEY DBY). ... biblethesaurus.org/i/inhabit.htm - 16k

Furnace (35 Occurrences)

... This furnace would be in constant requisition, for the Babylonians disposed of their dead by cremation, as did also the Accadians who invaded Mesopotamia. ... biblethesaurus.org/f/furnace.htm - 22k

Forefather (33 Occurrences)

... me. God Most Glorious appeared to our forefather Abraham when he was living in Mesopotamia, before he settled in Haran, (WEY). Acts ... biblethesaurus.org/f/forefather.htm - 17k

Tarsus (5 Occurrences)

... of its soil, the safety and convenience of its harbor and the command of the main line of communication between Anatolia and Syria or Mesopotamia combined to ... biblethesaurus.org/t/tarsus.htm - 30k

Terah (12 Occurrences)

... The wanderer; loiterer, for some unknown reason emigrated with his family from his native mountains in the north to the plains of Mesopotamia. ... biblethesaurus.org/t/terah.htm - 13k

Tahpanhes (7 Occurrences)

... Biblical "Sin") and a little North of the modern Al-Kantarah ("the bridge"), marking the old caravan route from Egypt to Palestine, Mesopotamia and Assyria. ... biblethesaurus.org/t/tahpanhes.htm - 14k

Rachel (42 Occurrences)

... She was the mother of Joseph (Genesis 30:22-24). Afterwards, on Jacob's departure from Mesopotamia, she took with her her father's teraphim (31:34, 35). ... biblethesaurus.org/r/rachel.htm - 24k

Residents (9 Occurrences)

... Residents (9 Occurrences). Acts 2:9 Parthians, Medes, Elamites, and people from Mesopotamia, Judea, Cappadocia, Pontus, Asia, (See NAS RSV NIV). ... biblethesaurus.org/r/residents.htm - 8k

Riblah (12 Occurrences)

... Riblah commanded the great trade and war route between Egypt and Mesopotamia, and, besides, it was at the dividing-point of many minor routes. ... biblethesaurus.org/r/riblah.htm - 14k

E'lamites (1 Occurrence)

... Multi-Version Concordance E'lamites (1 Occurrence). Acts 2:9 Parthians, Medes, Elamites, and people from Mesopotamia, Judea, Cappadocia, Pontus, Asia, (See RSV) ... biblethesaurus.org/e/e'lamites.htm - 6k

Exile (101 Occurrences)

... After the destruction of Samaria (BC 720) by Shalmaneser and Sargon (qv), there was a general deportation of the Israelites into Mesopotamia and Media (2 Kings ... biblethesaurus.org/e/exile.htm - 43k

Dwelt (307 Occurrences)

... Acts 7:2 And he said, Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken; The God of glory appeared unto our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in ... biblethesaurus.org/d/dwelt.htm - 36k

Dung (27 Occurrences)

... It burns slowly like peat and meets the needs of the kitchen. In Mesopotamia the writer saw it being used with forced draft to fire a steam boiler. ... biblethesaurus.org/d/dung.htm - 20k

Dwellers (12 Occurrences)

... (KJV ASV WBS). Acts 2:9 Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judaea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia, (KJV ASV WBS). ... biblethesaurus.org/d/dwellers.htm - 9k

Drawer (1 Occurrence)

... the water. Such a well is pointed out near Haran in Mesopotamia as the one from which Rebekah drew water for Abraham's servant. In ... biblethesaurus.org/d/drawer.htm - 11k

Deer (15 Occurrences)

... A variety of the fallow deer, sometimes counted as a separate species under the name of Cervus Mesopotamicus, inhabits northeastern Mesopotamia and Persia. ... biblethesaurus.org/d/deer.htm - 17k

Mesobaite (1 Occurrence)

biblethesaurus.org/m/mesobaite.htm - 6k

Media (14 Occurrences)

... Media (14 Occurrences). Acts 2:9 Men of Parthia, Media, and Elam, and those living in Mesopotamia, in Judaea and Cappadocia, in Pontus and Asia, (BBE). ... biblethesaurus.org/m/media.htm - 15k

Peleg (8 Occurrences)

... But more probably the reference is to the dispersion of the two races which sprang from Eber, the one spreading towards Mesopotamia and Syria, and the other ... biblethesaurus.org/p/peleg.htm - 10k

Pits (13 Occurrences)

... Springs of liquid bituminous matter exist in Mesopotamia, where according to Herodotus and other classical writers it was used as mortar with sun-dried bricks. ... biblethesaurus.org/p/pits.htm - 13k

Padanaram (10 Occurrences)

... The plain of Aram, or the plain of the highlands, (Genesis 25:20; 28:2, 5-7; 31:18, etc.), commonly regarded as the district of Mesopotamia (qv) lying around ... biblethesaurus.org/p/padanaram.htm - 9k