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Aradus

The 1901 Jewish Encyclopedia

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A Phenician city on the island now called Ruad, eighty miles north of Sidon. It is the Arvad of Ezekiel 27:8,11, the Armad of Tiglath-pileser III., and is also mentioned on the Egyptian monuments. Jews had migrated thither in Maccabean times (I Macc. 15:23). See ARVAD

Bibliography:
  • W. Max Müller, Asien und Europa, p. 186;
  • Pietschmann, Geschichte der Phönizier, pp. 36 et seq.
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Bibliography Information
Singer, Isidore, Ph.D, Projector and Managing Editor. Entry for 'Aradus'. 1901 The Jewish Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​tje/​a/aradus.html. 1901.
 
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