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Damascus

A celebrated city of Asia, and anciently the capital of Syria, may be accounted one of the most venerable places in the world for its antiquity. It is supposed to have been founded by Ux, the son of Aram; Damascus is rendered in the installed Bible Names resource as “a sack full of blood; the similitude of burning.” This unified study connects 8 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.

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  • Nave’s Topical Bible — Public domain
  • Hitchcock’s Bible Names Dictionary (1869)
  • Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
  • A Biblical and Theological Dictionary
  • concordance
  • Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible lexical data / BDB-Strong mapping
  • STEPBible TBESG (based primarily on Abbott-Smith)

Key facts

Subject type
Subject
Strong’s
H1834, G1153, G1154
Hebrew
דַּמֶּ֫שֶׂק
Greek
Δαμασκηνός · Damaskēnos
Name meaning
a sack full of blood; the similitude of burning According to Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Strong’s and original-language information

H1834

דַּמֶּ֫שֶׂק

Glosses: Damascus

Indexed occurrences: 32

Source: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible lexical data / BDB-Strong mapping

G1153

Δαμασκηνός · Damaskēnos

Glosses: Damascus

Δαμασκηνός, -ή, -όν of Damascus, Damascene: 2Co. 11:32. † (AS)

Indexed occurrences: 0

Source: STEPBible TBESG (based primarily on Abbott-Smith)

Strong’s

G1154

Complete dictionary entries

Hitchcock’s Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Damascus

a sack full of blood; the similitude of burning

Source: Hitchcock’s Bible Names Dictionary (1869) · View data sources

A Biblical and Theological Dictionary

DAMASCUS

a celebrated city of Asia, and anciently the capital of Syria, may be accounted one of the most venerable places in the world for its antiquity. It is supposed to have been founded by Ux, the son of Aram; and is, at least, known to have subsisted in the time of Abraham, Gen.

Source: A Biblical and Theological Dictionary · View data sources

Concordance

All Scripture references61 references

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Topical Bible

Naves Topical

DAMASCUS

Entry:
Nave’s Topical Bible references for DAMASCUS.

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Bible Names

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Damascus

Meaning:
a sack full of blood; the similitude of burning

Indexed occurrences: 0

Source: Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · View data sources

Sources

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