Canaan
: the region ofeast Mediterranean coastal land from Arvad (modern Lebanon) south to Gaza,the coast land from Mt. Carmel north to the Orontes River (31° 41´, 34° 50´);
(33° 33´, 35° 21´)
Gomorrah
: an ancient city known for its sin whose ruins are said to be visible from the Masada,a town destroyed with Sodom by burning sulphur (31° 9´, 35° 28´)
Ishmael
: son of Abraham and Hagar,father of Zebadiah, governor of Judah under Jehoshaphat,son of Azel of Benjamin,son of Jehohanan,a priest of the Pashur clan who put away his heathen wife,son of Nethaniah; a militia leader who assasinated Gedaliah
Mamre
: a place where Abraham camped, probably a few km north of Hebron,an Amorite chief who was Abraham's ally, with Eshcol and Aner (31° 32´, 35° 5´)
Sarah
: the wife of Abraham and the mother of Isaac,daughter of Terah; wife of Abraham
Sarai
: a layman of the Binnui Clan who put away his heathen wife
Sodom
: an ancient town somewhere in the region of the Dead Sea that God destroyed with burning sulphur,a town 25 km south of Gomorrah and Masada (31° 11´, 35° 23´)