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Gethsemane
[Bible]Gethsemane was a place at the foot of the Mount of Olives, east of Jerusalem. It is where Jesus Christ prayed and was arrested on the night before his crucifixion. Its name is generally understood to mean "oil press."
Gennesaret
[Bible]Gennesaret is a place name for the plain along the northwestern shore of the Sea of Galilee. In the New Testament, the name refers both to this land and to the lake named after it (the Sea of Galilee).
Mamre
[Bible]Mamre is a place near Hebron where Abraham pitched his tent and built an altar. There he received a visit from three men and heard the promise that Isaac would be born. In the Bible, the name occurs only in Genesis.
Pathros
[Bible]Pathros is a place name in the Old Testament books of Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel. It refers to the southern part of ancient Egypt, the region along the upper Nile known as Upper Egypt.
Galilee
[Bible]Galilee is a biblical place name referring to the northern region of Israel and to the lake on its eastern side, the Sea of Galilee. Jesus grew up there and carried out most of his public ministry in the region, making it a principal setting of the Gospels.
Gilead
[Bible]Gilead is an Old Testament place name for the highland region east of the Jordan River. It was known for livestock raising and spices, and Scripture names it as the home of the judge Jephthah and the prophet Elijah.
Shinar
[Bible]Shinar is an Old Testament place name for southern Mesopotamia, the region where Babylon later stood. It is best known as the setting of the Tower of Babel narrative.
Ophir
[Bible]Ophir is an Old Testament place name known as a source of fine gold. It appears as the destination of maritime trade in the time of Solomon, though its exact location is unknown.
Jude (Brother of the Lord)
[People]Jude is a figure named in the New Testament as a brother of Jesus. He is traditionally identified with "Jude, the brother of James," the author of the New Testament Epistle of Jude.
Havilah
[Bible]Havilah is both a place name and a personal name in the Old Testament. It first appears as the gold-bearing land encompassed by the Pison, one of the rivers of the Garden of Eden, and the same name also occurs in the genealogy of Noah's descendants.
Ophrah
[Bible]Ophrah is an Old Testament place name borne by two towns: the hometown of the judge Gideon and a town of the tribe of Benjamin. First Chronicles also mentions a man by this name.
Eliam
[People]Eliam is a name that appears twice in 2 Samuel: once for the father of Bathsheba, and once for the son of Ahithophel, one of David's mighty men. The text does not state directly whether the two are the same person.
Eliasaph
[People]Eliasaph is a name found in the Book of Numbers that refers to two men of the wilderness period: the chief of the tribe of Gad (son of Deuel) and the chief of the Gershonite clan of the tribe of Levi (son of Lael).
James (Brother of Jesus)
[People]James is recorded as a brother of Jesus and became the leader of the church in Jerusalem after Jesus' resurrection. Church tradition identifies him as the author of the Epistle of James.
Pentateuch
[Bible]The Pentateuch is the collective name for the first five books of the Old Testament: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. In Judaism it is called the Torah.
Book of Jasher
[Bible]The Book of Jasher is an ancient Israelite record cited in the Old Testament. It is named in Joshua 10:13 and 2 Samuel 1:18, and the original has not survived.
Erastus
[People]Erastus was a coworker of Paul mentioned in the New Testament. His name appears in Acts, Romans, and 2 Timothy, and in Romans he is described as a financial officer of Corinth, rendered in the KJV as "chamberlain of the city."
Philistine Pentapolis
[Bible]The Philistine Pentapolis is the collective name for the five cities that the Philistines established on the Mediterranean coast of southwestern Canaan: Gaza, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Gath, and Ekron. During the period of the judges and the early monarchy, these cities were the centers of the Philistine power that opposed Israel.
Shelah (Son of Arphaxad)
[People]Shelah is a descendant of Shem named in the genealogies of Genesis. He was the son of Arphaxad and the father of Eber, and he forms one link in the line from Noah to Abraham.
Jehoshabeath
[People]Jehoshabeath was the daughter of King Jehoram of Judah and the wife of the priest Jehoiada. When Athaliah massacred the royal family, she hid the young Joash and so preserved the line of the house of David. In 2 Kings she appears under the name Jehosheba.