Peraea

American  

[puh-ree-uh] / pəˈri ə /

noun

1. a region in ancient Palestine, E of the Jordan and the Dead Sea.

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Peraea British  

/ pəˈriːə /

noun

1. a region of ancient Palestine, east of the River Jordan and the Dead Sea

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Example Sentences

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

There are other stories told by Jesus while in Peraea, which you will find in the gospel by Luke, the beloved physician.

From Child's Story of the Bible by Lathbury, Mary A. (Mary Artemisia)

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

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

They are from southern Bethlehem; they have come from the wild hills of Peraea, beyond the Jordan; many are from Galilee, where Christ has found so many devoted followers.

From An Easter Disciple The Chronicle of Quintus, the Roman Knight by Sanford, Arthur Benton