HAURAN (V06p265001.jpg ; in cuneiform inscriptions, "Ḥaurina"; LXX. Αὑρανίτις; Arabic, "Ḥauran" (:
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A region east of the Jordan and north of Gilead, reaching east to the desert. It is mentioned in Ezek. xlvii. 16, 18, in connection with the eastern border of the land of Israel, as the land between Damascus and Gilead. The homonymous mountain Hauran (
Bibliography:
- Schrader, K. B. ii. 216;
- Hastings, Dict. Bible, ii. 310;
- Neubauer, G. T. p. 42;
- Schürer, Gesch. Index;
- Rindfleisch. in Z. D. P. V. xxi. 1;
- Post, in Pal. Explor. Fund Quarterly Statement, xix. 175, xxi. 171.