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Gershonites, the Glossary

The Gershonites were one of the four main divisions among the Levites in Biblical times.^[1]

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Anem (ancient city)

Anem or Anim was a Levitical city in Israel allocated to the Gershonites, according to the Hebrew Bible, from the land of the tribe of Issachar (6:58 in some Bibles).

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Bashan

Bashan (translit; Basan or Basanitis) is the ancient, biblical name used for the northernmost region of the Transjordan during the Iron Age.

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Biblical criticism

Biblical criticism is the use of critical analysis to understand and explain the Bible without appealing to the supernatural.

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The Book of Joshua (סֵפֶר יְהוֹשֻׁעַ, Tiberian: Sēp̄er Yŏhōšūaʿ; Ιησούς τουΝαυή; Liber Iosue) is the sixth book in the Hebrew Bible and the Old Testament, and is the first book of the Deuteronomistic history, the story of Israel from the conquest of Canaan to the Babylonian exile.

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Daberath

Daberath (Davrat) (dab'-e-rath) ("pasture") was a biblical Levitical city in the territory of Issachar, located near the border of Zebulun.

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Encyclopaedia Biblica

Encyclopaedia Biblica: A Critical Dictionary of the Literary, Political and Religion History, the Archeology, Geography and Natural History of the Bible (1899), edited by Thomas Kelly Cheyne and J. Sutherland Black, is a critical encyclopedia of the Bible.

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Eponym

An eponym is a person, a place, or a thing after whom or for which someone or something is, or is believed to be, named.

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Etiology

Etiology (alternatively spelled aetiology or ætiology) is the study of causation or origination.

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Galilee

Galilee (hagGālīl; Galilaea; al-jalīl) is a region located in northern Israel and southern Lebanon.

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Gershon

According to the Torah, Gershon (גֵּרְשׁוֹן Gērǝšôn) was the eldest of the sons of Levi, and the patriarchal founder of the Gershonites, one of the four main divisions among the Levites in biblical times. Gershonites and Gershon are Levites.

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Golan

Golan (Gōlān; Jawlān) is the name of a biblical town later known from the works of Josephus (first century CE) and Eusebius (Onomasticon, early 4th century CE).

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Hammoth-dor

Hammoth-dor (or Emathdor; חַמֹּת דֹּאר) is a walled city mentioned in the Book of Joshua.

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Hebrew Bible

The Hebrew Bible or Tanakh (. Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. Hebrew), also known in Hebrew as Miqra (Hebrew), is the canonical collection of Hebrew scriptures, comprising the Torah, the Nevi'im, and the Ketuvim.

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Israelites

The Israelites were a group of Semitic-speaking tribes in the ancient Near East who, during the Iron Age, inhabited a part of Canaan.

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Jarmuth

Jarmuth, Hebrew: Yarmut (יַרְמוּת), was the name of two cities in the land of Canaan.

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Kartan

Kartan was a double city, a town of Naphtali, assigned to the Gershonite Levites, and one of the Cities of Refuge.

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Kedesh

Kedesh (alternate spellings: Qedesh, Cadesh, Cydessa) was an ancient Canaanite and later Israelite settlement in Upper Galilee, mentioned few times in the Hebrew Bible.

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Kohathites

The Kohathites were one of the four main divisions among the Levites in biblical times, the other three being the Gershonites, the Merarites, and the Aaronites (more commonly known as Kohanim). Gershonites and Kohathites are Levites.

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Kohen

Kohen (כֹּהֵן, kōhēn,, "priest", pl., kōhănīm,, "priests") is the Hebrew word for "priest", used in reference to the Aaronic priesthood, also called Aaronites or Aaronides. Gershonites and Kohen are Levites.

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Levi

Levi was, according to the Book of Genesis, the third of the six sons of Jacob and Leah (Jacob's third son), and the founder of the Israelite Tribe of Levi (the Levites, including the Kohanim) and the great-grandfather of Aaron, Moses and Miriam.

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