Ramoth-Gilead (Hebrew: רָמֹת גִּלְעָד, romanized: Rāmōṯ Gilʿāḏ, meaning "Heights of Gilead"), was a Levitical city and city of refuge east of the Jordan...
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Balm of Gilead was a rare perfume used medicinally that was mentioned in the Hebrew Bible and named for the region of Gilead, where it was produced. The...
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The Handmaid's Tale (redirect from Republic of Gilead)
in a patriarchal, totalitarian theonomic state known as the Republic of Gilead, which has overthrown the United States government. Offred is the central...
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have originated from the Israelite town of Jabesh-Gilead. The name means "dry" in Hebrew. Jabesh-Gilead "www.Bibler.org - Dictionary - Jabesh". 2012-09-16...
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Gilad Shalit (redirect from Gilead Shalit)
original on 3 April 2009. Retrieved 24 June 2009. Shalit named honorary Roman citizen Archived 5 July 2009 at the Wayback Machine, Jewish Telegraphic...
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History of Palestine (section Roman period)
modern-day Syria. The northwestern region of the Transjordan, known then as Gilead, was also settled by the Israelites. Hebrew flourished as a spoken language...
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Archived from the original on 31 December 2010. Retrieved 10 April 2010. Gilead Sher, The Application of Israeli Law to the West Bank: De Facto Annexation...
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Ramoth-Gilead, a Levitical city and city of refuge east of the Jordan River, mentioned several times in the Hebrew Bible. By the late Iron Age, Gilead became...
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1894 Statue in Bom Jesus do Monte Shunammite is a fictional character in Gilead, in Margaret Atwood's sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, titled The Testaments...
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Gynecology in ancient Rome (redirect from Ancient Roman gynecology)
expensive abortifacient in ancient Rome was the "Balm of Gilead," a plant native to Gilead. Pliny claimed that the plant was "worth double its weight...
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Carmen Carrera (redirect from Christopher Roman)
also been active in AIDS awareness and activism. After being featured in a Gilead Sciences ad titled "Red Ribbon Runway" with fellow Drag Race co-stars Manila...
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Nabataean Kingdom (category Gilead)
north of Nabataea, along the road to Damascus, including northern Moab and Gilead. The territorial acquisitions threatened Nabataean trade interests, both...
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Ammon (c. 1010 – 990 BC) lay siege to Jabesh-Gilead. Nahash appears abruptly as the attacker of Jabesh-Gilead, which lay outside the territory he laid claim...
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Jehu (category Gilead)
reign of Jehu's predecessor, Jehoram, was marked by the Battle of Ramoth-Gilead against the army of the Arameans. Jehoram was wounded and returned to Jezreel...
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of Crime (1984) as Hoss (nominated by Joseph Jefferson Awards) Balm in Gilead (1981–82) as Joe Conroy Moby Dick (1984) as Ahab A Class "C" Trial in Yokohama...
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Judas Maccabeus (category Gilead)
ultimate independence. Upon hearing the news that the Jewish communities in Gilead, Transjordan, and Galilee were under attack by neighboring Greek cities...
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Lo-debar (category Gilead)
Lo-debar (Biblical Hebrew: לֹא דְבָר, לוֹ דְבָר, romanized: lōʾ dǝbār) was a town in the Old Testament in Gilead not far from Mahanaim, north of the Jabbok...
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carried with the rest of his family beyond the Jordan to the mountains of Gilead, where he found refuge in the house of Makhir ben Ammiel, a powerful Gadite...
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Ramoth-Gilead, Hebrew for "Heights of Gilead"; in that case, the present-day Arabic name might preserve the Biblical Hebrew one. During the Roman and Byzantine...
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The Raven (category Gilead)
stories. Poe mentions the Balm of Gilead, a reference to the Book of Jeremiah (8:22) in the Bible: "Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there...
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co-wrote the episode "Eureka" with Brett Conrad, co-wrote the episode "Gilead" with co-producer Chris Collins, co-wrote the episode "Potlatch" with Misha...
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Nabataeans (category Gilead)
a local rebellion, invaded and occupied the Nabataean towns of Moab and Gilead and imposed a tribute of an unknown amount. Obodas I knew that Alexander...
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of the cities, we took for a prey to ourselves. Along with the half of Gilead, it was given to the half-tribe of Manasseh (Joshua 13:29–31). According...
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Jaffa (redirect from Joppe (Roman))
Silk Buckingham, Travels in Palestine, Through the Countries of Bashan and Gilead, East of the River Jordan: Including a Visit to the Cities of Geraza and...
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Yarmuk (river) (category Gilead)
border between the plains to the north - Hauran, Bashan and Golan - and the Gilead mountains to the south. Thus it has often served as boundary line between...
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Perea (category Judea (Roman province))
(Hebrew: עבר הירדן, romanized: ʿeven hayyarden, lit. 'beyond the Jordan'). In some cases, the Tanakh uses the related term Gilead, which usually refers...
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Magdala (category 60s disestablishments in the Roman Empire)
J.S. (1821). Travels in Palestine through the countries of Bashan and Gilead, east of the River Jordan, including a visit to the cities of Geraza and...
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Viola tricolor (section Balm in Gilead)
modest girl. — The Taming of the Shrew (Act 1, Scene 1) In her poem Balm in Gilead, Christina Georgina Rossetti uses heartsease as a metaphor of growing older...
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son of Saul, and brought him over to Mahanaim; and he made him king over Gilead, and over the Ashurites, and over Jezreel, and over Ephraim, and over Benjamin...
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Garden of Eden Gath Gaul – modern France Gaza Georgia Gethsemane Gibeon Gilead Golgotha Gomorrah Goshen Great Sea – Mediterranean Sea in the Bible Greece...
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