A New System: Or, An Analysis of Antient Mythology ...J. Walker, 1807 - Folklore and history |
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... natives the Mountain of Descent , which he translates arrobaτngiov , on account of the Patriarch here first descending from the ark . Αποβατηριον τοπον τετον Αρμενιοι καλεσιν . The same is mentioned by Eustathius Antiochenus . By Jerome ...
... natives the Mountain of Descent , which he translates arrobaτngiov , on account of the Patriarch here first descending from the ark . Αποβατηριον τοπον τετον Αρμενιοι καλεσιν . The same is mentioned by Eustathius Antiochenus . By Jerome ...
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... natives . He accordingly calls this mountain in the provincial dialect " Ar - Arat ; which would have been rendered Har - Irad by the Hebrews . By this is signified anobarngiov , or place of descent . The region round about was called ...
... natives . He accordingly calls this mountain in the provincial dialect " Ar - Arat ; which would have been rendered Har - Irad by the Hebrews . By this is signified anobarngiov , or place of descent . The region round about was called ...
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... native of Asia Minor ; and he speaks of the fertility of Armenia , and especially of the region Gogarene , which he particularly mentions as productive of the olive . 1ο Ειθ ̓ ἡ Γωγαρηνη Πασα γαρ ή χώρα αυτή καρποις τε και τοις ήμεροις ...
... native of Asia Minor ; and he speaks of the fertility of Armenia , and especially of the region Gogarene , which he particularly mentions as productive of the olive . 1ο Ειθ ̓ ἡ Γωγαρηνη Πασα γαρ ή χώρα αυτή καρποις τε και τοις ήμεροις ...
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... natives to have been originally limited to the region of Some of the principal cities in Armenia were Carina , Arca , Comana , Ararathia , Cucousus . See Hierocles Euvendnuos . p . 703 . These names are very remarkable . 25 Ermenia of D ...
... natives to have been originally limited to the region of Some of the principal cities in Armenia were Carina , Arca , Comana , Ararathia , Cucousus . See Hierocles Euvendnuos . p . 703 . These names are very remarkable . 25 Ermenia of D ...
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... natives , the true name is Nachidshevan . By this , they say , is signified 36 THE FIRST PLACE OF DESCENT . Hence there can be no doubt , but this is that place in Armenia , of which Josephus takes notice , and says , that by the natives ...
... natives , the true name is Nachidshevan . By this , they say , is signified 36 THE FIRST PLACE OF DESCENT . Hence there can be no doubt , but this is that place in Armenia , of which Josephus takes notice , and says , that by the natives ...
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Abydenus Ægyptus æra Africanus afterwards ages Alexander Polyhistor alluded Amenophis Amosis antient Apollodorus apud Arabia Ararat Armenia Arrian Babel Babylon Babylonia Bacchus Belus Berosus Bochart called Canaan Chaldea Chron Colchis consequence Cronus Cutha Cuthites Deity deluge Diodorus Dionys dispersion dynasty earth Egypt Egyptians Erythrean Ethiopians Euseb Eusebius Gods Grecians Greece Greeks Hellenes Hence Herodotus Hesiod Ibid Indus Israelites Josephus king land language learned Manethon mankind mentioned mistake Mizraim Moses mountain nations natives Nimrod Oannes original Perieg person Præp princes Ptolemy region reign river sacred says Scythia Sethon Shepherds shew shewn Shinar signified sons of Chus speaks Strabo styled supposed Syncell Syncellus takes notice term Tigris tion Titanian Titans tower whence worship writers γαρ δε δια εις εκ εν Ενθα εξ επι και κατα μεν παρα περι προς τας τε τες τοις ύπο Χαμ
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Page 24 - And the whole earth was of one language and of one speech. And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.
Page 24 - And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven ; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Page 38 - These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations: and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.
Page 341 - Lord's portion is his people ; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.
Page 18 - By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.
Page 24 - And the Lord said, Behold the people is one, and they have all one language ; and this they begin to do : and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
Page 83 - And Cush begat Nimrod : he began to be a mighty one in the earth. He was a mighty hunter before the Lord. Wherefore it is said, even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord. And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech and Accad and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
Page 284 - And Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east country, and all the wisdom of Egypt.
Page 36 - And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
Page 24 - Therefore is the name of it called Babel ; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth : and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.