Peraea
Americannoun
noun
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That he consented to restore to Attalus his ships, and the seamen taken with them; and to the Rhodians the tract which they call Peraea.
From The History of Rome, Books 27 to 36 by Livius, Titus
Further self-revelation at Jerusalem: conflict: journey to Peraea; vii.
From The Books of the New Testament by Pullan, Leighton
All Trypho's efforts to break through proved futile; after skirting all Judaea from west to south, without being able to get clear of Simon, he at last withdrew to Peraea without having accomplished anything.
From Prolegomena by Wellhausen, Julius
No; for He had determined to 'awake him out of sleep' before He left Peraea.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture St. John Chapters I to XIV by Maclaren, Alexander
The Four Gospels are written in Greek, and the word 'legion' is Latin; but in Galilee and Peraea the people spoke neither Latin nor Greek, but Hebrew, or a dialect of it.
From The Freethinker's Text Book, Part II. Christianity: Its Evidences, Its Origin, Its Morality, Its History by Besant, Annie Wood
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