GREEK · G5139
Τραχωνῖτις
Trachōnitis — Trachonitis
Τραχωνῖτις, -ιδος, ἡ (τραχύς) Trachonitis, a rough region S. of Damascus (in FlJ, sometimes ἡ Τ., sometimes ό Τράχων): ἡ Τ. χώρα, Luk.3:1.† (AS)
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Trachonitis
Original Hebrew / Aramaic / Greek connected to this term
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Historical dictionary entry
A rugged region, corresponds to the Heb. Argob (q.v.), the Greek name of a region on the east of Jordan (Luke 3:1); one of the five Roman provinces into which that district was divided. It was in the tetrarchy of Philip, and is now called the Lejah.
Scripture references
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.