- The
Zarqa River is
identified with the
biblical river Jabbok.
Biblical Jacob crossed the
Jabbok on his way to Canaan,
after leaving Harran. It
leads west...
-
possessed by Sihon, and the
other half,
separated from it by the
river Jabbok, by Og, king of Bashan.
After the two
kings were defeated, the
region of...
- wives, his two maidservants, and his
eleven sons, and he
crossed over the
Jabbok ford. He took them and sent them over the river, and he sent over that which...
- the east of the
Jordan River,
between the
torrent valleys of
Arnon and
Jabbok, in present-day Jordan. The
chief city of the
country was
Rabbah or Rabbat...
- far from Succoth, on the east of the
Jordan River and
south of the
river Jabbok in present-day Jordan.
Penuel is
mentioned in the Book of
Genesis as the...
- may God strengthen, Jabal, a river, moving, or
which glides away, stream,
Jabbok Jabesh, a dry place; dry, Jabez, he
makes sorrow or height; sorrow; Jabin...
-
indefinite references to it are given.
Jacob crossed it and its tributary, the
Jabbok (the
modern Zarqa River), on his way back from
Haran (Genesis 32:11, 32:23–24)...
- two
neighboring tells,
separated by the
Zarqa River (the
biblical River Jabbok), an
affluent of the
Jordan River. The two
tells are
commonly identified...
- "camps") is a
place mentioned a
number of
times by the
Bible said to be near
Jabbok, in the same
general area as Jabesh-gilead,
beyond the
Jordan River. Although...
- town in the Old
Testament in
Gilead not far from Mahanaim,
north of the
Jabbok river (2
Samuel 9:4–5) in
ancient Israel. It is
mentioned in the Hebrew...
