 | Josiah Conder - 1831 - 362 pàgines
...Jewish history.* The ridge of mountains which, under the modern names of Djtbel Shera and Djcbel Hesma, extends from the southern extremity of the Dead Sea...Akaba, rising abruptly from the valleys El Ghor and El Jlraba, which are a prolongation of the valley of the Jordan, — may be pronounced, with little hesitation,... | |
 | Josiah Conder - 1834 - 740 pàgines
...ancient Midianites. The ridge of mountains which now bears the names of Djebel Sbera and Djebel Hesma, extends from the southern extremity of the Dead Sea...the Gulf of Akaba, rising abruptly from the valleys £1 (.itx-r and El Araba, which are a prolongation of the valley of the Jordan. The pashalik of Damascus... | |
 | 1836 - 710 pàgines
...indefinitely to that range of mountains which, under the modern names of Diebal, Skera, and Hasma, : every one that defileth it shall surely be put to death : for whosoever The reader will recollect the " Ghor," or valley, extending iu the same direction, which we have had... | |
 | Peter Graham (topographical writer.) - 1836 - 292 pàgines
...priests. The Jews there amount to about fifteen individuals. SEIIl, MOUNT; a mountainous tract, extending from the southern extremity of the Dead Sea, to the gulf of Accaba, or Ezion-geber. The whole of this tract was probably before called Mount Hor, and was inhabited... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1837 - 596 pàgines
...Edom, which, under the modern names of Djebal Shera, and Hcsma, forms a ridge of mountains, extending from the southern extremity of the Dead Sea to the gulf of Akaba, rises abruptly from the valleys El Ghor and El Araba, and is traversed from west to east by a few narrow... | |
 | William Fleming - 1838 - 646 pàgines
...Judah, Josh. xv. 60. SEIR, a mountain range which, under the modern names of Djebal, Shera, and Hasma, extends from the southern extremity of the Dead Sea to the Gulf of Akaba in the Red Sea, where Seir the Hurite and his posterity first dwelt, and of which the descendants of... | |
 | Léon marquis de Laborde - 1838 - 438 pàgines
...Edom, which under the modern names of Djebal, Shera, and Hesma, forms a ridge of mountains, extending from the southern extremity of the Dead Sea to the gulf of Akaba, rises abruptly from the valleys El Ghor and El Araba, and is traversed from west to east by a few narrow... | |
 | John Gardiner Kinnear - 1841 - 390 pàgines
...but their sheich a sad dog. Our route lay up the great Wady Araba ; a broad, sandy valley, extending from the southern extremity of the Dead Sea to the Gulf of Akaba, and supposed to have been the valley of the Jordan, before the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. Towards... | |
 | William Goodhugh, William Cooke Taylor - 1843 - 734 pàgines
...spots in less neglected lands." Mountains of Seir. This name applies to a mountainous tract extending from the southern extremity of the Dead Sea to the gulf of Akaba or Ezion-Geber. The whole of this tract was probably before called Mount Hor, and was inhabited by... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - 1843 - 586 pàgines
...8 and 30 т„ but Is much wider N. of 34° N. lat. than between the two ranges of the Liban из. From the southern extremity of the Dead sea to the gulf of Akaba it Is reduced to a narrow, rocky, and waterless cleft In the mountains, probably not more than 1 m.... | |
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Hasma, extends from the southern extremity of the Dead Sea to the Gulf of Akaba. 
