Category: Toponyms

It is generally agreed that (ăpăr), in ancient Hebrew, denotes dust and similar material.

The name “Qatraye” is derived from “ܩܵܛܹܪ/qāṭīr” which means: “Line”.

The attempt to correlate biblical narratives with fixed geographical locations has long been recognized as one of the most methodologically unstable domains within biblical scholarship. As works such as Site Identification: A Problem Area in Contemporary Biblical Scholarship have underscored, the evidentiary basis for securely identifying most biblical sites is exceedingly thin. Almost no locations…

Noah’s ark story originated in southern Mesopotamia. The resting place of the Mesopotamian Noah, after the flood, was Dilmun. Dilmun encompassed Bahrain, Kuwait and eastern Saudi Arabia.

“Ur of the Chaldees”, “Ur of the Chaldeans” or “Ur Kasdim” is a place-name mentioned in the Bible as the homeland of biblical Abraham. The toponym’s primordial Hebrew designation is ‘אוּר כַּשְׂדִּים’, conventionally rendered in scholarly transliteration as ʾŪr Kaśdīm (or, alternatively, ‘uwr Kašdīm).” “Ur Kasdim” presents a toponym whose morphology and semantic range remain…