Biblical Geography is wrong.

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Padan Aram
פַּדֶּנָֽה אֲרָם from πεδίον ἁρμός ' plain between joints'

This is Syria, this name is written שָׁרוֹן ( Sharon ) , see Songs 2:1, however the Septuagint read that as πεδίου ( Pediou ) , another word in Songs 2:1 is עֵמֶק ( Emeq) , Septuagint reads it κοιλάδων ( Koiladon) which means 'Hollow' , as in the name Coelesyria ( Κοίλη Συρία) meaning ' Hollow Syria ' , same Septuagint phrase appears in Genesis 14:17 ' Hollow-Shaveh (שָׁוֵה) , this word becomes Sheba , this is in the Levant ( not Arabia), All references to Arabia in the Old Testament are not actually referring to Arabia so-named today.

Paran
פָּארָן from περᾶν ' Across the other side ' , the name is used in 2 Samuel 10:16 as a translation of 'Eber- (עֲבָר ) but this can
also be written ma`abar [ מַעֲבָר] and is read διαβάσεων ( Diabaseon ) in the Septuagint meaning 'crossing over, passage' , Diabaseon rooted two words, Yabesh [יָבֵשׁ ] and Bashan [ בָּשָׁן] , these names interchange, written either 'Jabesh-Gilead' or 'Bashan-Gilead'
' Gen 32:22 ' Passage (מַעֲבָר) of Jabbok'

Jeremiah 22:20
Go up to Lebanon, and cry; and lift up thy voice in Bashan, and cry from the passage (עֵבֶר)

Numbers 21:13 * Wilderness of Paran
.. other side (עֵבֶר) of Arnon ( Paran Arnon) , which is in the wilderness .. Arnon is the border of Moab

Joshua 12:2
bank of the river Arnon, and from the middle of the river, and from half Gilead, even unto the river Jabbok, which is the border of the children of Ammon;

Deuteronomy 4:48
From Aroer, which is by the bank of the river Arnon, even unto mount Sion, which is Hermon,

Judges 11:8
for Arnon was the border of Moab

Deuteronomy 3:9
land that was on this side Jordan, from the river of Arnon unto mount Hermon;
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According to Numbers 21:13, 'Arnon' is the border of Moab , however in Deuteronomy 4:48 , it's a winter-torrent of Mount Hermon and thus Moab and Hermon must proximate with each other, however a typical Biblical map of the Levant puts Moab 180 miles south of Mt-Hermon , but what is that conclusion based on?

Numbers 26:3 ' plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho '
Deuteronomy 3:8 On this side Jordan, from the river of Arnon unto mount Hermon

Where is Jericho ?
- Plain of the valley (biq`ah) of Jericho, the city of palm trees,

Plain-Valley ( Kikkar-Biqah ) , read in Gk περίχωρα ( Perixora ) ( round that place) , see Gen 13:10 ' περίχωρον τοῦ Ιορδάνου (Perixoron of Jordan)
and 'city of palm trees' in Gk is 'Phoenician-City , this description clearly put Jericho in the north near Mount Hermon
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What was Moses doing in Syria?

Numbers 13:21
So they went up, and searched the land from the wilderness of Zin unto Rehob, as men come to Hamath.
Numbers 34:8
From mount Hor ye shall point out your border unto the entrance of Hamath; and the goings forth of the border shall be to Zedad:

Was Moses ever in the Sinai Peninsula?
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They are allot of place-names in the Bible, including the Torah that are deriving from Greek.

Gaza ( עַזָּה ) ἄστυ ( Astu )
Ashdod (אַשְׁדּוֹד) ἀστός ( Astos )
Cush (כּוּשׁ ) κάος ( Kaos)
Havilah (חֲוִילָה) ἐπαύλεις (Epauleis)
Aram ( אֲרָם ) ἁρμός ( Armos)

The name Greek (Graikos) is a cognate of קֶרֶת ( Qereth ) meaning City/Town and is part of the name Carthage, Since Qereth begins with the Phoenician Qoph which is either Koppa or Phi , thus קֶרֶת ( QRT ) becomes PRT ( Portus ) in Latin , πόρος ( Poros) and Polis (πόλις)

Quinque > Pente
Note that T S along with M N interchange in Hebrew and thus Quinque ( QNQ ) = Chemesh (חָמֵשׁ QMS) ( Five in Hebrew).

Polis (PLS) > Qereth ( QRT) .
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In Roman times the Levant was split into three main regions.

A. Syria Coele
B. Syria Phoenicia
C. Syria Palestina

Coele [κοίλη ] ' Hollow ' , In Latin it is Cava , in Hebrew it is Cur (חוּר) , Galal (גָּלַל) and Kol (כֹּל)

Syria in Hebrew is שָׁרוֹן (Sharon ) and related to יָשַׁר (Yashar) ' straight /flat / smooth ', in Genesis 27:11
Jacob is described as a 'Smooth man' , Calak (חָלָק) = κόλακ̀ ( Kolak ), He was also named Israel , that is Yashar with the suffix 'אל which could simply be a dialectic form of כֹּל. thus Israel is a shortening of Syriacoele.

Yasher also means 'up-right' , the meaning of צָדַק ( Zadak ) (Righteous) , same as δίκη ( Dikh) and δικαίου (Dikaiou ) ths 'Dikaiou > Dikaiob > Ikaiob > יַעֲקֹב ( Jacob )

Yasher ( Straight) = εὐθύς ( Euthu) > יְהוּדָה ' Yehuda ' ( Judah)

Genesis LXX 27:36 καὶ εἶπεν δικαίως ἐκλήθη τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ Ιακωβ
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Edom (אֱדֹם) = δῆμος (Dhmos) ' country-district ' also written δημόν (Dhmon) > Ammon (עַמּוֹן) and
root 'am (עַם) ' nation ' , also Amit (עָמִית) ' off the people '= Dhmotes (δημότης).
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Mount Ararat
I determined this to be Mount Hor [הֹר הָהָֽר] , in Greek that is Ωρὄρος , but through a layer of translation, Ωρὄρος > אֲרָרָט because the terminal letter ς becomes ט

הֹר הָהָֽר > Ωρὄρος > אֲרָרָט ' Ararat

Jeremiah 51:27
kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz

Minni [מִנִּי] appear in Judges 11:33 , Minnith [מִנִּית] , however it is Arnon [ Αρνων] in the LXX

Judges 11:33
He smote them from Aroer, even till thou come to Minnith, even twenty cities, and unto the 'Plain of the vineyards [אָבֵל כְּרָמִים ] ( Abel-Keremin ) with a very great slaughter [ Makkah ]

Abel appears in 1 Samuel 6:18 , ' Abel described as the 'Field of Joshua' and writes afterwards ' he smote the men of Bethshemesh' , a slaughter duplicated in Judges 11:33, later, Abel is named Beth-Makkah and Beth-Shemesh , the burial location of Joshua.

Josh 15:10
And the border compassed from Baalah westward unto mount Seir
Passed along unto the side of mount Jearim, which is Chesalon, on the north side
went down to Bethshemesh,and passed on to Timnah:


Timnah is a Greek loan word, Temenos meaning ' a piece of land cut off and assigned as an official domain, especially to kings and chiefs, or a piece of land marked off from common uses and dedicated to a god ' , the word is used in Judges 14:1 ' Samson went to Timnah'.

Beth-Shemesh ' Πόλιν ἡλίου ( City of the Sun) another name for Baalbek [ Heliopolis Syriaca]
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Exodus 9:23 - LORD rained hail upon the land of Egypt.
Exodus 9:25 - The hail smote throughout all the land of Egypt.

It's clear the original story of the Exodus had nothing to do with 'Egypt'(named today) but the Levant itself, the Hebrew Misraim is a Geographical description, alike the word Mesopotamia, the Septuagint write 'Syria-Mesopotamia' too differentiate it with the one between Euphrates and Tigris, Syria-Mesopotamia deals with the area between Orontes and Litani known as Beqaa Valley ( most fertile place in the Levant ), Since 'Mesopotamia' is also confused with 'Syria-Mesopotamia' then Byblos is confused with Babylon and thus two accounts of an Exodus , Out of Egypt and out of Babylon, however, the reality is, there was no Exodus in those locations, but was entirely allegorical .
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Genesis 12:6 - Abram passed through the land unto the place of Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh

Sichem and Moreh are synonyms referring to the Sycamore-Mulberry tree , in fact the word Sycamore is literally ' Sichem+Moreh '

Sichem , from συκάμινος [Sukaminos] also written שִׁקְמָה [shakam ]
Morah is the same as μορέα [Morea] ' mulberry'

Another name for Mulberry is Baka [בָּכָא ] that also means 'weep' , referring too the blood-like tears which the pressed berries pour forth and is the same tree in Genesis 35:8 ' she was buried beneath Bethel under a tree known as a Mulberry Tree ' .

from Gen 12:6, Abram pitched between Bethel and Ay ( Hai on the East ) ,
' Num 34:10 the coast shall go down from Shepham to Riblah, on the east side of Ayn
// Shepham is a dialectic form of Sichem and Riblah , a misspelling of Diblah means ' Place of the Fig Tree ' (Ficus sycomorus) which grows naturally in Lebanon ( West Bekaa ), note that Rebekah is the daughter of Leban ( patronymic form Lebanon)

Psalms 78:47 ( Lebanese weather )
- He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycamore trees with frost.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ficus_sycomorus
https://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/le ... ongs=H8256
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/mor ... a&la=greek
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/mor ... s&la=greek
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