PLACES OF THE BIBLE

1,172 biblical places

The Bible is an historic record of real people and places. Learn the significance of these places, their stories and the meanings of their names.
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A Abana Abarim Abdon Abel Abel-beth-maachah Abel-cheramim Abel-meholah Abel-mizraim Abel-shittim Abez Abilene Abode Abraham's bosom Abronah Accad Accho Aceldama Achaia Achmetha Achor Achshaph Achzib Adamah Adam's city Admah Adramyttium Adria Adullam Adummim Aenon Ahava Ahlab Aholah Aholiamah Aholibah Aholibamah Ai Ain Ain 'Atan (see: Etam, Nephtoah) Ain-el-Barideh (see: Dalmanutha) Ain el-Ghudyan (see: Ezion-geber Ain Hamul (see: Hammon Ain-Haud (see: En-shemesh) Ain Hawarah (see: Marah) Ain Helweh (see: Abel-meholah) Ain Hudherah (see: Kibroth-hattaavah) Ain el-Hudhera (see: Hazeroth) Ain Jalud (see: Harod, Fountain of Jezreel) Ain Jidy (Ain Jidi) (see: Engedi, cave, Dead Sea) Ain-Kana (see: Kanah) Ain Karim (see: Beth-haccerem) Ain Kezbeh (see: Achzib) Ain Lifta (see: Nephtoah) Ain Muweileh (see: Beer-lahai-roi) Ain-Rimmon (see: Rimmon) Ain Sarah (see: Sirah) Ain Shems (see: Ebenezer, Beth-shemesh, Kirjath-jearim Ain-esh-Shemsiyeh (see: Beth-shemesh Ain es-Sultan (see: Jericho Ain Tabighah (see: Bethsaida) Ain Ummel-Daraj (see: En-rogel) Ajalon Akkad Akrabbim Alemeth Alexandria Allon Allon-bachuth Almon Altar Alush Amana Ammah Amphipolis Anab Ananiah Anathoth Anem Aner Anim Antioch Antipatris Antonia Aphik Apollonia Appii Forum Ar Arab Arabah Arabia Arad Aram Aram-naharaim Aram-zobah Ararat Archi Areopagus Argob Ariel Arimathea Armageddon Armenia Armory (armoury) Arnon Aroer Arpad Arvad Ashdod Ashdoth-pisgah Ashkelon Ashtaroth Ashteroth Karnaim Asia Asshur Assos Assyria Asuppim Atad Ataroth Athens Ava Aven Azal Azazel Azekah Azmaveth Azotus B Baal Baalah Baalath Baalath-beer Baalbec Baale of Judah Baal-gad Baal-hamon Baal-hazor Baal-hermon Baal-meon Baal-perazim Baal-shalisha Baal-tamar Baal-zephon Babel (tower of) Babylon Babylon (kingdom of) Baca (Valley of) Baghdad Bahurim Bajith Balah Bamah Bamoth Bamoth-baal Banquet Bar Barn Bashan Bashan-havoth-jair Bashan (Hill of) Bath-rabbim Baths Battlement Bay Bealoth Beautiful gate Bed-chamber Beer Beer-elim Beer-lahai-roi Beeroth Beersheba Bela Berachah Berea Bered Besor Beth Bethabara Beth-anath Beth-anoth Bethany Beth-arabah Beth-aram Beth-arbel Beth-aven Beth-barah Beth-car Beth-dagon Beth-diblathaim Bethel Bether Bethesda Beth-gamul Beth-gilgal Beth-haccerem Beth-horon Beth-jeshimoth Bethlehem Beth-peor Beth-phage Bethsaida Beth-shean Beth-shemesh Beth-tappuah Bethuel Bethzur Beulah Beyond Bezek Bezer Bith-ron Bithynia Boaz Bochim Bondage Booth Bozrah Breach Brook Building Bulwarks Buz By-ways C Cabins Cabul Caesara Philippi Caesarea Cain Calah Caleb Calneh Calvary Camon Camp Cana Canaan Canneh Capernaum Caphtor Cappadocia Carchemish Carmel Casiphia Castle Causeway Cave Cedron Ceiling Cellar Cenchrea Cesarea Chaldea Chamber Channel Chapel Charashim Charran Chebar Chephirah Cherith Chesalon Chesil Chesulloth Chezib Chidon Chilmad Chinnereth Chios Chor-ashan Chorazin Chozeba Chun Church Cilicia Cinnereth Cistern City Clauda Closet Cnidus Coele-Syria College Colony Colossae Conduit Congregation (mount of the) Convocation Coos Corinth Corner Cotes Cottage Court Crete Cushan Cuthah Cyprus Cyrene

D Daberath Dagon's house Dale (the king's) Dalmanutha Dalmatia Damascus Dan Dan-jaan Dannah David (City of) Dead Sea Debir Decapolis Decision (Valley of) Deep Den Derbe Destruction Destruction (City of) Diblathaim Dibon Dimnah Dinhabah Dizahab Door-posts Doors Dophkah Dor Dothan Dragon well Draught-house Dumah Dungeon Dung-gate Dung-hill Dura Dwellings E Earth East East gate East sea Ebal Ebenezer Ebronah Ecbatana Edar Eden Eder Edom Edrei Eglaim Eglon Egypt Ekron Elah Elam Elath El-Bethel Elealeh El-elohe-Israel Elim Elkosh Ellasar Elon Elparan Eltekeh Emmaus Encamp Endor En-eglaim En-gannim Engedi En-hakkore En-rogel En-shemesh Ephah Ephes-dammim Ephesus Ephraim (Gate of) Ephraim in the wilderness Ephraim (Mount) Ephraim (The tribe of) Ephraim (Wood of) Ephratah Ephron Erech Esdraelon Esek Eshcol Eshean Eshtaol Eshtemoa Etam Etham Ethiopia Euphrates Exile Exodus Ezel Ezion-geber F Fair Havens Fallow-ground Farm Feast Fence Fenced cities Ferry boat Festivals (Religious) Field Firmament Fish-pools Fold Ford Forest Fountain Fountain of the Virgin Fuller's field Funeral Furnace G Gaash Gabbatha Gadara Galatia Galeed Galilee Galilee (Sea of) Gallery Gallim Gardens Gareb Garner Garrison Gate Gath Gath-hepher Gath-rimmon Gaulanitis Gaza Geba Gebal Gebim Geder Gederah Gedor Gehenna Geliloth Gennesaret Gerar Gergesa Gerizim Geshur Gethsemane Gezer Gibbethon Gibeah Gibeah-haaraloth Gibeah of Judah Gibeah of Phinehas Gibeon Gihon Gilboa Gilead Gilgal Giloh Gimzo Gittah-hepher Gittaim Goath Gob Gog Golan Golgotha Gomorrah Goshen Gozan Grave Greece Grove Guest-chamber Gur Gur-baal H Habitation Habor Hachilah Hadad-rimmon Hadashah Hadattah Hades Hadid Hadrach Halah Halak Halhul Hall Hamath Hamath-zobah Hammath Hammon Hammoth-dor Hamonah Hamon-gog Hananeel Hanes Hara Haradah Haran Hareth Harod Harosheth of the Gentiles Hashmonah Hauran Haven Havilah Havoth-jair Hazar-addar Hazar-enan Hazar-gaddah Hazar-hatticon Hazar-maveth Hazar-shual Hazar-susah Hazerim Hazeroth Hazezon-tamar Hazor Hazor-hadattah Heap Heaven Hebron Helam Helbah Helbon Heleph Helkath Helkath-hazzurim Hell Hena Hepher Hephzibah Heres Hermon Hermonites (the) Herodion Heshbon Heshmon Hethlon Hezron Hiddekel Hierapolis High place Hill Hill of Evil Counsel Hinnom Hobah Hold Holy of holies Holy place Hor Horeb Horem Hormah Horonaim Horse-gate Hosah House Hukkok I Ibleam Iconium Idalah Idumaea Iim Ije-abarim Ijon Illyricum India Inn Iraq Irha-heres Isaac Ishtob Island Israel Israel (Kingdom of) Italy Ituraea Ivah J Jaazer Jabbok Jabesh Jabesh-Gilead Jabez Jabneel Jabneh Jachin and Boaz Jacob's Well Jagur Jahaz Janoah Janum Japhia Japho Jarmuth Jattir Javan Jearim Jebus Jegar-sahadutha Jehoshaphat (Valley of)

Jehovah-jireh Jehovah-nissi Jehovah-shalom Jehovah-shammah Jehovah-tsidkenu Jericho Jeruel Jerusalem Jeshanah Jeshimon Jethlah Jezreel Jezreel (Ditch of) Jezreel (Fountain of) Jezreel (Portion of) Jezreel (Tower of) Jezreel (Valley of) Jokdeam Jokmeam Jokneam Joktheel Joppa Jordan Judah (Kingdom of) Judah upon Jordan Judea Judgment hall Judgment seat Juttah K Kabzeel Kadesh Kanah Karkaa Karkor Kartah Kartan Kattath Kedemoth Kedesh Kedron Kehelathah Keilah Kenath Kerioth Keziz Kibroth-hattaavah Kibzaim Kidron Kinah Kingdom of God King's dale Kir Kir-haraseth Kirjath Kirjathaim Kirjath-arba Kirjath-huzoth Kirjath-jearim Kirjath-sannah Kirjath-sepher Kir of Moab Kishion Kishon Kithlish Kitron Koa L Laban Lachish Laish Landmark Laodicea Lasaea Lasha Lebanon Lebonah Lehi Libnah Libya Lo-debar Lodge Luhith Luz Lycaonia Lycia Lydda Lydia Lystra M Maachah Maaleh-acrabbim Maarath Macedonia Machaerus Machpelah Madmannah Madmen Madmenah Madon Magdala Magog Mahanaim Mahaneh-dan Makheloth Makkedah Maktesh Mamre Maon Marah Maralah Mareshah Market-place Maroth Mars Hill Mashal Masrekah Massah Mattanah Meadow Mearah Medeba Media Megiddo Me-jarkon Mekonah Melita Memphis Meonenim Mephaath Merathaim Meribah Merom Meroz Mesha Mesopotamia Metheg-ammah Michmash Michmethah Middin Midian Migdal-Edar Migdal-el Migdal-gad Migdol Migron Miletus Millo Minni Minnith Misgab Mishal Misheal Misrephoth-maim Mithcah Mitylene Mizar Mizpah Miz'peh Mizraim Moab Moabite Stone Moladah Moreh (the Hill of) Moresheth-gath Moriah Mosera Moseroth Mosul Mount Mount of beatitudes Mount of corruption Mount of the Amalekites Mount of the Amorites Mount of the congregation Mount of the valley Mozah Myra Mysia N Naamah Naaran Naarath Nahallal Nain Naioth Naphtali (Mount) Naphtuhim Nazareth Neah Neapolis Neballat Nebo Neiel Nekeb Nephtoah Netophah Nezib Nibshan Nicopolis Nile Nimrah Nimrim (Waters of) Nimrud Nineveh No Nob Nobah Nod Noph Nophah North country Northward O Oboth Old gate Olives (Mount of) Ono Open place Ophel Ophir Ophni Ophrah Oracle Oreb (The rock of) P Padan Padan-aram Palace Palestine Palm trees (The city of) Pamphylia Paphos Paradise Parah Paran Paran (Mount) Parbar Parched ground Parlour Parvaim Pas-dammim Passage Patara Pathros Patmos Pau Pavement Pavilion Pekod Pelusium Pentecost Penuel Peor Perazim (Mount) Perez-uzzah Perga Pergamos Persia Pethor Petra Pharpar Phenice Phenicia Philadelphia Philippi Philistia Phoenicia Phrygia Phut Pi-hahiroth Pinnacle Pirathon Pisgah Pisidia Pison Pithom Plain Plain of Mamre Pontus Pool Pools of Solomon Porch (Solomon's) Potters field Praetorium Prison Ptolemais Pul Puteoli Put (Phut) Q Quarantania Quarries R Raamah Rabbah Rachal Rahab Rakkath Rakkon Rama Ramathaim-zophim Ramath-lehi Ramath-mizpeh Ramath of the south Rameses Ramoth Ramoth-gilead

Genesis Exodus Leviticus Numbers Deuteronomy Joshua Judges Ruth 1 Samuel 2 Samuel 1 Kings 2 Kings 1 Chronicles 2 Chronicles Ezra Nehemiah Esther Job Psalms Proverbs Ecclesiastes Song of Solomon Isaiah Jeremiah Lamentations Ezekiel Daniel Hosea Joel Amos Obadiah Jonah Micah Nahum Habakkuk Zephaniah Haggai Zechariah Malachi Matthew Mark Luke John Acts Romans 1 Corinthians 2 Corinthians Galatians Ephesians Philippians Colossians 1 Thessalonians 2 Thessalonians 1 Timothy 2 Timothy Titus Philemon Hebrews James 1 Peter 2 Peter 1 John 2 John 3 John Jude Revelation Study Tools & Versions Red Sea Red Sea (Passage of) Refuge (Cities of) Rehob Rehoboth Remeth Remmon-methoar Rephaim (Valley of) Rephidim Resen Rezeph Rhegium Rhodes Riblah Rimmon Rimmon-parez Rissah Rithmah River River of Egypt River of Gad Rivers of Babylon Rivers of Damascus Rivers of Judah Rogelim Rumah S Salamis Salcah Salem Salim Salmone Salt Sea Salt (The city of) Salt (Valley of) Samaria Samos Samothracia Sanctuary Sansannah Saphir Sardis Sarepta Schools of the Prophets Sea of glass Sea of Jazer Sea (The) Seba Secacah Seir Seirath Sela Sela-hammahlekoth Seleucia Senaah Seneh Senir Sephar Sepharad Sepharvaim Sepulchre Shaalabbin Shaaraim Shalem Shalim (Land of) Shalisha (Land of) Shallecheth (The gate of) Shamir Shapher Sharaim Sharon (Saron) Shaveh-Kiriathaim Shaveh (Valley of) Shearing-house Sheba Shebarim Shechem Sheep-fold Sheep-gate Sheep-market Shema Shen Shenir Sheol Shepham Sheshach Shibmah Shihon Shihor Shihor-Libnath Shilhim Shiloah (The waters of) Shiloh Shimron Shimron-meron Shinar (The Land of) Shittim Shoa Shophan Shunem Shur Shushan Sichem Siddim (Vale of) Sidon Sihor Silla Siloah (The pool of) Siloam (Pool of) Siloam (Tower of) Sin Sinai Sinim (The land of) Sin (Wilderness of) Sion Siphmoth Sirah Sirion Sitnah Skull (The place of a) Smyrna Socho Sodom Sodoma Solomon's Porch South Spain Spring Stream of Egypt Street Suburbs Succoth Suph Suphah Sychar Sychem Syene Synagogue Syracuse Syria T Taanach Taanath-shiloh Tabbath Taberah Tabernacle Tabor Tadmor Tahapanes Tahtim-hodshi Tamar Tanis Tappuah Tarah Tarshish Tarsus Taverns (The three) Tekoa (Tekoah) Tel-abib Telassar Telem Tel-haresha Tel-melah Tema Teman Temple Temple (Herod's) Temple (Solomon's) Temple (the Second) Tent Testimony Testimony (Tabernacle of) Tharshish Theatre Thebez Thessalonica Threshold Throne Thyatira Tiberias Tiberias (Sea of) Tidal Timna Timnah Timnath Timnath-heres Timnath-serah Tiphsah Tirza Tob (The land of) Tochen Togarmah Tolad Tombs Tophel Tophet Tower of the furnaces Towers Trachonitis Transfiguration (the) Treasure cities Treasure houses Treasury Tree of life Tree of the knowledge of good and evil Troas Trogyllium Tubal Turkey Tyre Tyropoeon Valley U Ulai Ummah Uphaz Ur Uz Uz (The land of) Uzza Uzzen-sherah V Valley Villages W Wailing-place (Jews') Wall Ward Waterspouts Well Westward Wilderness Wood X There were no “X” names. Y Yeshebi Z Zaanaim Zaanan Zaanannim Zair Zalmon Zalmonah Zanoah Zarephath Zaretan Zareth-shahar Zarthan Zeboim Zebulun (Lot of) Zedad Zelah Zemaraim Zephath Zephathah Zered Zereda Zeredathah Zererath Ziddim Zidon Ziklag Zin Zion Zior Ziph Ziphron Ziz Zoan Zoar Zobah Zoheleth Zophim (Field of) Zorah Zuph (