ADAM, CITY OF('adham, "red" or BDB "made"): A city in the middle of the Jordan valley near ZARETHAN (Joshua 3:16), which see. The name probably survives at the Damieh Ford, near the mouth of the Jabbok twenty miles above Jericho. An Arabian historian asserts that about 1265 A.D. the Jordan was here blocked by a land slide. The inner gorge of the Jordan is he... View Details
SALT, CITY OF(`ir ha-melach; Codex Alexandrinus hai pol (e)is halon): One of the six cities in the wilderness of Judah mentioned between Nibshan and Engedi (Joshua 15:62). The site is very uncertain. The large and important Tell el-Milch (i.e. "the salt hill"), on the route from Hebron to Akaba, is possible.
JERICHOjer'-i-ko (the word occurs in two forms. In the Pentateuch, in 2 Kings 25:5 and in Ezra, Nehemiah, Chronicles it is written yerecho; yericho, elsewhere): In 1 Kings 16:34 the final Hebrew letter is he (h), instead of waw (w). The termination waw (w) thought to preserve the peculiarities of the old Canaanite. dialect. In the Septuagint we have the inde... View Details
DEAD SEA, THEI. PRESENT AREAII. FORMER ENLARGEMENTIII. LEVEL OF THE DEAD SEA IN EARLY HISTORIC TIMESIV. CONSTITUTION OF THE WATERV. CLIMATEVI. ROADSVII. MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS1. The Plain of the Jordan2. Ain Jidi (En-gedi)3. The Fortress of Masada4. Jebel Usdum (Mount of Sodom)5. Vale of Siddim6. El-LisanVIII. HISTORYLITERATUREThe name given by Greek and Latin... View Details
Adam, the first man. Also a city in the Jordan valley.