List Of Places In The Bible

A

• Absalom’s Monument
• Achaia
• Adiabene – Neo-Assyrian State
• Ai
• Akko
• Akkad – Mesopotamian state
• Ammon – Canaanite state
• Attalia – In Asia Minor
• Antioch – In Asia Minor
• Arabia – (in biblical times and until the 7th century AD Arabia was confined to the Arabian Peninsula)
• Aram/Aramea – (Modern Syria)
• Arbela (Erbil/Urbil) – Assyrian city
• Archevite
• Ariel
• Armenia – Indo-European kingdom of eastern Asia Minor and southern Caucasus.
• Arrapkha – Assyrian City, modern Kirkuk
• Ashdod
• Ashkelon
• Ashur/Asshur/Assur – Capital city of Assyria
• Assyria – Mesopotamian Semitic state

B

• Baal-hazor – Canaanite city
• Babel
• Babylon/Babylonia – Mesopotamian state
• Beer-Sheba
• Beit El
• Beirut
• Berea
• Bethany
• Bethel
• Bethharan
• Bethlehem
• Bethsaida
• Bochim
• Byblos – Phoenician state
• Beersheba
• Betshean

C

• Cabul
• Calah/Kalhu/Nimrud – Assyrian city
• Calneh – Assyrian city
• Cana – Galilee
• Canaan – Region on the Eastern shore of the Mediterranean
• Capernaum
• Cappadocia – Region in Asia Minor
• Carchemish – Assyrian city
• Caria – Nation in Asia Minor
• Cenchrea
• Chorazin
• Cilicia – Nation in Asia Minor
• Crete, Greek island
• Cimmeria – Nation in northern Asia Minor
• Commagene – Nation in Asia Minor
• Corduene – Nation in central Asia Minor, homeland of the Kurds
• Corinth, City in Greece
• Cush – African state
• Chaldea – Mesopotamian state, eventually encompassing Babylonia

E

• Ebla – East Semitic state in northern Syria
• Eden
• Edom –Ancient kingdom in Transjordan
• Egypt
• Ekron
• Elam – Pre-Iranic Nation in Ancient Iran
• Elim
• Emmaus
• En-hakkore
• En Gedi
• Ephesia/Ephesus – Greek city in Asia Minor
• Eridu – Mesopotamian city
• Eshcol
• Eshnunna – Mesopotamian city state
• Ethiopia
• Etham

G

• Gabbatha
• Galilee
• Gath
• Gaza
• Georgia
• Gethsemane
• Gibeon
• Gilead
• Golgotha
• Gomorrah
• Goshen
• Greece
• Gutium – state in Iran

H

• Haran
• Harran – Assyrian City
• Hattusa – Capital of Hittite Empire in Asia Minor
• Hatti – Nation in Asia Minor
• Havilah
• Hazazon Tamar (also Hazazon-tamar or Hatzatzon-Tamar) – Ein Gedi
• Hebron
• Helam
• Hill of Gash
• Hurri Nation – Nation in Asia Minor
• I
• Imgur-Enlil – Assyrian City
• India – Esther 8:9

J

• Jabbok
• Jaffa
• Jerash
• Jericho
• Jerusalem
• Jordan
• Jordan Plain
• Judah
• Judea

K

• Kabzeel
• Kadesh-Barnea
• Kaska – Nation in Asia Minor
• Kassite state – in Iran
• Keilah
• Kish – Mesopotamian City State
• Kush/Cush – in northeast Africa

L

• Laban
• Lachish
• Laish
• Laodicea
• Larsa – Mesopotamian city
• Lebanon
• Lehi
• Lycia – Nation in Asia Minor
• Lydia – Nation in Asia Minor
• Lystra

M

• Machpela
• Magan – Pre-Arab state in Oman
• Mamre Plain
• Mannea – Nation in Iran
• Marah
• Mari – Assyrian city
• Media – Nation in Iran
• Megiddo
• Meluhha – Pre-Arab state in the Arabian Peninsula
• Memphis
• Mesopotamia – Includes the kingdoms of Sumer, Akkad, Assyria, Babylonia, Chaldea, and the neo Assyrian states of Adiabene, Osroene and Hatra.
• Midian
• Miriam
• Moab – Cannanite state
• Mount Carmel
• Mount Ephraim
• Mount Hermon
• Mount Nebo
• Mount of Olives
• Mount Sinai
• Mount Tabor
• Mount Zemaraim
• Mount Zion
• Mysia – state in Asia Minor

N

• Nahor
• Nahrain (Mesopotamia)
• Nazareth
• Nibarti-Ashur – Assyrian city
• Nimrud – later name for the Assyrian city of Kalhu/Calah
• Nineveh – Capital of Assyria
• Nod

O

• On
• Ophir
• Opis – Mesopotamian/Babylonian City
• Osroene – Neo Assyrian state

P

• Palestine
• Palmyra – Aramean state in Syria
• Paran
• Parthia – Nation in Iran
• Penuel
• Perga – Town In Asia Minor
• Persia – Nation in Iran
• Petra
• Philistia – Original name of Palestine
• Phrygia – Nation in Asia Minor
• Phut
• Pithom
• Punt
• Puqudu, as “Pekod”

R

• Ramathlehi
• Rapiqum – Assyrian City
• Rephidim
• Rome – Roman Empire

S

• Samaria – Nation of the Samaritans
• Sardis
• Scythia – Nation in Asia Minor
• Shalem
• Sheba – Pre-Arab state in Yemen
• Shechem
• Shiloh
• Shinar – Mesopotamian city
• Shomron
• Shubat-Enlil – Assyrian city
• Sidon
• Sin Desert
• Sinai
• Smyrna
• Sodom
• Spain – Romans 15.24
• Sumer/Sumeria – Mesopotamian state and region
• Syria/Aramea

T

• Tabal – Georgian state in Asia Minor
• Tarshish
• Tel Dan
• Til-barsip – Assyrian city
• Timnath-serah
• Timnath
• Tushhan – Assyrian city
• Tyre

U

• Ugarit – Amorite state
• Umma – Mesopotamian state and city
• Ur – Mesopotamian state and city
• Urartu – Hurrian state in the Caucasus
• Urkish – Mesopotamian state and city
• Uruk – Mesopotamian state and city
• The Land of Uz

V

• Via Dolorosa

Z

• Zaanan
• Zair
• Zalmonah
• Zanoah
• Zareah
• Zartanah
• Zelahzaliya
• Zemaraim
• Zephi
• Zeredathah
• Zorah
• Zion
• Zoba