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Onomasticon — Book XIX

Eusebius of Caesarea · a new plain-English translation from the Greek

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?| From Genesis. Tigris (Gen 2:14): a river that flows out of the paradise "opposite the Assyrians," as Scripture says, and empties "into the Red Sea," as Josephus says, adding that it is called Tigris because of its swiftness, after the name of the animal that shares it. The terebinth at Sikima (Gen 35:4): under which Jacob hid "the foreign gods," near Neapolis.

?| From Joshua. Tina (Josh 15:22): of the tribe of Judah. Telem (Josh 15:24): of the tribe of Judah. Tessam (Josh 15:52?): of the tribe of Judah. Tyre (Josh 19:35): of the tribe of Naphtali.

?| From Judges. Tabath (Judg 7:22): where they fought Madiam. Tob (Judg 11:3): a land where Jephthah lived. Tapheth (2 Kings 23:10): "in the valley of the son of Ennom," where the people practiced idolatry, in the suburbs of Jerusalem. Tanis (Isa 19:11): a city of Egypt, in Isaiah and in Ezekiel. Taphnas (Hos 9:6?): a city of Egypt, in Hosea, in Ezekiel, and in Jeremiah. There the Jews who went into Egypt with Jeremiah settled. Trachonitis, a region (Luke 3:1), also called Ituraea, of which Philip was tetrarch according to Luke the evangelist. It is listed above as well. It lies beyond Bostra, along the desert, to the south, in the direction of Damascus.

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