Bible Dictionary: Syria: Originally Included Mesopotamia

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Genesis 25:20
And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padanaram, the sister to Laban the Syrian.
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Genesis 28:5
And Isaac sent away Jacob: and he went to Padanaram to Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob's and Esau's mother.
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Deuteronomy 26:5
And you shall speak and say before the LORD your God, A Syrian ready to perish was my father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous:
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Acts 7:2
And he said, Men, brothers, and fathers, listen; The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelled in Charran,
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Library

The Nations of the North-East
... and in which Assyria itself was sometimes included. ... the cities of northern Syria
were plundered ... learn from the Assyrian inscriptions, originally signified as ...
/.../sayce/early israel and the surrounding nations/chapter iv the nations of.htm

Syria at the Beginning of the Egyptian Conquest
... Zahi originally comprised that portion of the desert and of the ... by the Amorites,
who probably included Damascus also ... which are so frequently met with in Syria. ...
/.../chapter iisyria at the beginning.htm

In Palestine - Jews and Gentiles in the Land' - their Mutual ...
... All depended on who had originally possessed, and ... Euphrates], and unto Amanah.' This
included, of course ... to have extended over Mesopotamia, Syria, Zobah, Achlah ...
/.../the life and times of jesus the messiah/chapter vii in palestine -.htm

The Setting
... and enlarging its gains in Syria, Greece, Asia ... local congregation, and the term,
originally synonymous with ... final unanimity on which books should be included. ...
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Canaan
... name of Amorites, the Assyrians included them under ... The Semites of Syria had succeeded
in rolling ... of Phoenicia believed that they had originally migrated from ...
/.../sayce/early israel and the surrounding nations/chapter ii canaan.htm

The Jewish World in the Days of Christ - the Jewish Dispersion in ...
... and many of the other satrapies,' [27] were included with the ... [31] For Syria and
Mesopotamia ... Jews, consisting in all of about 50,000, originally returned from ...
/.../the life and times of jesus the messiah/chapter i the jewish world.htm

Chapter i.
... BC400 of a translation which included at least ... in BC333 opened the gate of Syria
to the ... an Alexandrian tradition which was perhaps originally independent of ...
/.../an introduction to the old testament in greek additional notes/chapter i.htm

Editor's Preface
... malachite." It was this list which originally led Oppert ... Magan included, however,
the Midian of Scripture, and ... land of the Amorites," the Syria and Palestine of ...
/.../history of egypt chaldaea syria babylonia and assyria v 1/editors preface.htm

Babylonia and Assyria
... and Mesopotamia, while Palestine and Syria had fallen ... whose members must doubtless
be included the Jewish ... Originally the "spirit" of the evening-star, she had ...
/.../early israel and the surrounding nations/chapter vi babylonia and assyria.htm

The Medes and the Second Chaldaean Empire
... a regular library, which must originally have contained ... famous from time immemorial;
they included collections of ... Even if Cilicia and Syria should be conquered ...
/.../chapter iiithe medes and the.htm

Subtopics

Syria

Syria: A Saviour Raised up for Israel Against

Syria: Abana and Pharpar Rivers of

Syria: And It Included Phoenicia

Syria: Army of, Miraculously Routed

Syria: Asa Sought Aid of, Against Israel

Syria: Benhadad King of, Besieged Samaria

Syria: Besieged Samaria Again

Syria: Called Aram, from the Son of Shem

Syria: Confederates With Nebuchadnezzar

Syria: Conquest of by David