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Coelesyria
... Lebanon and the Anti-Lebanon range of mountains. Int. Standard Bible
Encyclopedia. COELE-SYRIA. se-le-sir'-ia (the King James Version ...
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Coele-syria
Coele-syria. << Coelesyria, Coele-syria. Coffer >>. Easton's Bible Dictionary ... W.
Ewing. << Coelesyria, Coele-syria. Coffer >>. Reference Bible.
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Ptolemy
... In 316 he joined in a war against Antigonus during which Coele-Syria and Phoenicia
were lost, but in 312 regained from Demetrius the son of Antigonus. ...
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Antiochus
... He renewed the war, but was defeated at Raphia in 217, and was obliged to give
up Phoenicia and Coelesyria; Seleucia, however, he retained. ...
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Lebanon (66 Occurrences)
... They enclose a long valley (Joshua 11:17) of from 5 to 8 miles in width, called
by Roman writers Coele-Syria, now called el-Buka'a, "the valley," a ...
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Nabathaeans
... I, king of the Nabateans, but suffered a severe defeat East of the Jordan (Josephus,
Ant, XIII, xiii, 5; BJ, I, iv, 4). Antiochus XII of Coele-Syria next led ...
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Nabataeans
... I, king of the Nabateans, but suffered a severe defeat East of the Jordan (Josephus,
Ant, XIII, xiii, 5; BJ, I, iv, 4). Antiochus XII of Coele-Syria next led ...
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Rehob (12 Occurrences)
... 21). It is now supposed to be represented by the castle of Hunin,
south-west of Dan, on the road from Hamath into Coele-Syria. (4 ...
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Epiphanes
... On the death of Ptolemy VI in 173, Antiochus laid claim to Coelesyria, Palestine
and Phoenicia; whereupon war broke out between Syria and Egypt. ...
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Champaign (1 Occurrence)
... If Baal-Gad be Ba`albeq and "the valley of Lebanon" be Coele-syria, the present
name of Coele-syria, al-Biqa` (plural of buq`ah, "a low, wet place or meadow ...
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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

COELE-SYRIA

se-le-sir'-i-a (the King James Version Celosyria; Koile Suria, "hollow Syria"): So the Greeks after the time of Alexander the Great named the valley lying between the two mountain ranges, Lebanon and Anti-Lebanon. It is referred to in the Old Testament as Biq`ath ha-Lebhanon, "the valley of Lebanon" (Joshua 11:17), a name the echo of which is still heard in el-Buqa`, the designation applied today to the southern part of the valley. This hollow, which extends about 100 miles in length, is the continuation northward of the Jordan valley. The main physical features are described under LEBANON (which see). The name, however, did not always indicate the same tract of territory. In Strabo (xvi.2) and Ptolemy (v.15), it covers the fertile land between Jebel esh-Sharqy and the desert presided over by Damascus. In 1 Esdras 2:17; 2 Maccabees 3:8, etc., it indicates the country South and East of Mt. Lebanon, and along with Phoenicia it contributed the whole of the Seleucid dominions which lay South of the river Eleutherus. Josephus includes in Coele-Syria the country East of the Jordan, along with Scythopolis (Beisan) which lay on the West, separated by the river from the other members of the Decapolis (Ant., XIII, xiii, 2, etc.). In XIV, iv, 5, he says that "Pompey committed Coele-Syria as far as the river Euphrates and Egypt to Scaurus." The term is therefore one of some elasticity.

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Easton's Bible Dictionary

Hollow Syria, the name (not found in Scripture) given by the Greeks to the extensive valley, about 100 miles long, between the Lebanon and the Anti-Lebanon range of mountains.

Strong's Hebrew

206. Aven -- "wickedness," a contemptuous synonym for two places
... Aven. The same as 'aven; idolatry; Aven, the contemptuous synonym of three places,
one in Coele-Syria, one in Egypt (On), and one in Palestine (Bethel) -- Aven. ...
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760. Aram Tsobah -- Aram-zobah
... Word Origin see Aram and Tsoba. Aram-zobah From 'Aram and Tsowba'; Aram of Tsoba
(or Coele-Syria) -- Aram-zobah. see HEBREW 'Aram. see HEBREW Tsowba'. ...
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