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Dead Sea

Fausset's Bible Dictionary (1878)· Public Domain

The name in the Old Testament is never this, but "the Salt Sea" , "sea of the plain." (See SALT SEA)

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Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible on Dead Sea

This remarkable inland lake lies in the deepest part of the depression of the earth's surface which stretches from the Gulf of Akabah north- wards into the Jordan Valley (see Arabah). The name ' Dead Sea ' is not found in the Bible, and appears first to have been used in Gr. {B(i\a n<I I'aleatlno.' In tftm. PEF, lS8a ; Lartet, Voyagt tfExplorn- tUm (It la MtT Mortt, 1880 ; Lyni-h, Report of U.S. Exjmlilwn to tki Jitrdan and Dead Se-i, 1852 ; Robinsnn, HR, lS(i6 ; Di- Saulcy, Voyagt dnns la Syrit, 1853; Schubert, Reiie in den iforgcnlund, 1837; Tristram, /yind V Isratl, 2nd ed. 1872. Ixind of Mood, 1878, ' Fauna and Flora of Palestine," in Hem. PEF, 1S'<4 ; O. A. Smith, i/u<. Geo;;. 499 fl. E. HuLL.

Smith's Bible Dictionary on Dead Sea

This name nowhere occurs in the Bible, and appears not to have existed until the second century after Christ. [See Sea, The Salt, THE SALT]

References

  1. Orr, J. (ed.) (1915) The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia. Chicago: Howard-Severance Company. [Public Domain]
  2. Easton, M.G. (1893) Easton's Bible Dictionary. 3rd edn. Thomas Nelson. [Public Domain]
  3. Nave, O.J. (1897) Nave's Topical Bible. Topical Bible Publishing Co.. [Public Domain]
  4. Hastings, J. (ed.) (1909) A Dictionary of the Bible. Edinburgh: T&T Clark. [Public Domain]
  5. Smith, W. (ed.) (1884) Smith's Bible Dictionary. London: John Murray. [Public Domain]
  6. Fausset, A.R. (1878) Fausset's Bible Dictionary. [Public Domain]A Critical and Expository Bible Cyclopaedia

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