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MAKHSA. This is probably
the Hebrew makhãseh, “a refuge.” |
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IPU. Read Yapu. Joppa, now
Jaffa. [Called Yapu in the Tel el-Amarna tablets.—ED.] |
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KNTU‡.
“The country of Gath,” in Assyrian Gimti. See Nos. 44, 70, and 93.
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LUTHN. Doubtless Lydda, now
Ludd; as Mariette. |
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AUANAU. Ono, now Kefr ’Ana;
as Mariette. |
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APUQN. Perhaps the Wâdi
Fukîn, 7½ miles east of Khurbet
Shuweikeh. |
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SUQA. Written Shauqa in Shishak’s
List. Socoh, Josh. xv. 35, now Khurbet Shuweikeh. |
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IHMA. El-Kheimeh, about 10
miles west-north-west of Shuweikeh. |
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KHBAZANA‡. |
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KNTHU. Gath. See No. 63. |
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MAKTAL—.
Migdal-gad (Josh. xv. 37), now el-Mejdel. |
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APTHN. Probably Khurbet el-Fatûneh. |
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SHBTUNA. Now Shebtîn. |
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TIA‡.
Also TIAI. Now the Jebel et-Teyi. |
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NAUN (with determinative).
The name Nûn haunts the district north and west of the Jebel et-Teyi.
Within 3 or 4 miles are Jefa Nûn, Neby Nûn, a sacred place
to the east of Yanûn, and 12 miles further west the reputed tomb
of Nun the father of Joshua. Maspero suggests Khurbet-Nina. |
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HUDITA. Compare the Benjamite
city Hadid; Ezra ii. 33. The modern Hadîtheh,
5 miles west of Khurbet Shebtîn (No.
73). |
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HAR— (with determinative
of locality). The Har or “Mountain” of Ephraim, between Kefr Hans and Hadîtheh,
where it descends to the plain. |
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ISHPAL—.
Joseph-el. Comp. El-iasaph of the tribe of Gad, Numb. i. 14; of Levi, Numb.
iii. 24. Also Josiph-iah, Ezra viii. 10, and Ba’al-yashupu, the name of
an Arvadite prince in the Assyrian inscriptions of Assur-bani-pal. The
local name of the valley Jiphthah-el, Josh. Xix. 27, like Jabneel, shows
how such terms are attached to places. See Groff in the Revue égyptologique,
1885, p. 95. Our Joseph-el may linger in Yasûf, anciently called
Yusepheh, and known as Yasûf in the Samaritan “Book of Joshua.” See
Géog. du Talmud, p. 90. |
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RGAZA, RAGAZA. |
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KR-R— ‡.
Perhaps Dâr Jerîr, 9½ miles south-south-east of Yasûf.
[The determinative of “country” makes me read Galil, and identify the district
either with the Gelîloth of the Philistines, Josh. xiii. 2, Joel
iii. 4, or with the Gelîloth of the Jordan, west of Jerusalem, Josh.
xxii. 10, 11.—ED.] |