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Phaenos

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

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the capital of Trachonitis, in the northeast of Palestine; the AEnos of the Peutinger Table; one of the episcopal cities of Arabia (S. Paulo, Geogr. Sacr. page 297), twenty-seven Roman miles from Damascus, thirty-seven from Kenath. It is now the village of Musmeih, on the northern edge of the Lejah, as was proved by an inscription (Burckhardt, Travels, page 117 sq.; Porter, Damascus, 2:112 sq.). Van de Velde, Memoir, page 339.

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McClintock, John. Strong, James. Entry for 'Phaenos'. Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​tce/​p/phaenos.html. Harper & Brothers. New York. 1870.
 
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