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== Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible <ref name="term_53481" /> == | == Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible <ref name="term_53481" /> == | ||
<p> <strong> | <p> <strong> [[Petra]] </strong> See Sela. </p> | ||
== Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_55498" /> == | == Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_55498" /> == | ||
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== Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblial Literature <ref name="term_16473" /> == | == Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblial Literature <ref name="term_16473" /> == | ||
<p> Pe´tra was the capital of the Nabathaean Arabs in the land of Edom, and seems to have given name to the kingdom and region of [[Arabia]] Petrœa. As there is mention in the Old [[Testament]] of a stronghold which successively belonged to the [[Amorites]] , the [[Edomites]] and the [[Moabites]] (, comp. in [[Hebrew]] ), and bore in Hebrew the name of Selah, which has the same meaning as | <p> Pe´tra was the capital of the Nabathaean Arabs in the land of Edom, and seems to have given name to the kingdom and region of [[Arabia]] Petrœa. As there is mention in the Old [[Testament]] of a stronghold which successively belonged to the [[Amorites]] , the [[Edomites]] and the [[Moabites]] (, comp. in [[Hebrew]] ), and bore in Hebrew the name of Selah, which has the same meaning as Petra in Greek, viz., 'a rock,' that circumstance has led to the conjecture that the Petra of the Nabatheans had been the [[Selah]] of Edom. But the consideration of that point in a work of this nature falls more naturally under the Bible head of Selah, to which article accordingly the reader is referred; and there likewise the question will be disposed of as to whether (on the supposition of Petra being the Selah of Scripture) its site is to be identified with that of the modern Kereh, or with the locality of the far famed [[Wady]] Musa [[[Arabia; Idumea; Nebaioth]]] </p> | ||
== The Nuttall Encyclopedia <ref name="term_78103" /> == | == The Nuttall Encyclopedia <ref name="term_78103" /> == | ||
