• 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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • Tell el-Maqlub (category Gilead)
    overlooking a bend in Wadi Yabis, in a region known in biblical times as Gilead. It is located 35 km from the Sea of Galilee, 75 km from the Mediterranean...
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    than one exist. For example, the drug Cayston (aztreonam), marketed by Gilead Sciences for cystic fibrosis, can be identified and characterized by IR...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    Silk Buckingham, Travels in Palestine, through the countries of Bashan and Gilead, east of the river Jordan: incl. a visit to the cities of Geraza and Gamala...
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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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    Tulul adh-Dhahab (category Roman sites in Jordan)
    Penuel Finkelstein, Israel; Lipschits, Oded; Koch, Ido (2012). "The Biblical Gilead: Observations on Identifications, Geographic Divisions and Territorial History...
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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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