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Ararat
People's Dictionary of the Bible
or Ararat (ăr'a-răt), holy land, or high land. A mountainous region of Asia which borders on the plain of the Araxes, and is mentioned (1) as the resting-place of Noah's ark. Genesis 8:4; (2) as the refuge of the sons of Sennacherib, 2 Kings 19:37, R. V., or margin, A V.; Isaiah 37:1-38; Isaiah 38:1-22, R. V., or margin, A. V.; (3) as a kingdom with Minni and Ashchenaz. Jeremiah 51:27. The mountains of Ararat, Genesis 8:4, properly refer to the entire range of elevated table land in that portion of Armenia; and upon some lower part of this range, rather than upon the high peaks popularly called Ararat, the ark more probably rested. For (1) this plateau or range is about 6000 to 7000 feet high; (2) it Is about equally distant from the Euxine and the Caspian Seas, and between the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean, and hence a central point for the dispersion of the race; (3) the region is volcanic in its origin; it does not rise into sharp crests, but has broad plains separated by subordinate ranges of mountains; (4) the climate is temperate, grass and grain are abundant, the harvests quick to mature. All these facts illustrate the biblical narrative. George Smith, however, places Ararat in the southern part of the mountains east of Assyria. Chaldean Account of Genesis, p. 289.
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Rice, Edwin Wilbur, DD. Entry for 'Ararat'. People's Dictionary of the Bible. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/rpd/a/ararat.html. 1893.
