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By vintageluvs · Updated April 2023

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  • Galilee

    Hebrew

    "the province"

    Galilee is a highly unusual place name, Galilee being a large region in northern Israel, the home of Jesus during at least thirty years of his life, and also where he cured a blind man. The Sea of…

  • Tyre

    Tyre is a masculine name with multiple origin stories. It may derive from the ancient Phoenician city of Tyre (now in Lebanon), known as a significant Mediterranean trading hub famous for its purple…

  • Persia

    Country name

    "land of the Parsa"

    The name Persia derives from Avestan Parsa , the name of the Indo-European nomadic people who migrated into southern Iran in about 1000 BCE. Persis or Persea, the feminine form of Perseus, feel more…

  • Tabor

    Hebrew; Hungarian

    "a height; encampment"

    In the Bible, Tabor is the name of the mountain that stood on the border between northern and southern Israel. This biblical place name is similar to the Hungarian name Tibor.

  • Abilene

    English from Hebrew

    "grass"

    New Testament, Texas, and Kansas place-name more fitting for a girl.

  • Antioch

  • Assyria

  • Babel

  • Babylon

  • Bethebara

  • Bethlehem

  • Bethsaida

  • Cana

  • Capernaum

  • Cush

  • Damascus

  • Emmaus

  • Ephesia

  • Ephesus

  • Gabbatha