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Title: Rambles in Bible lands
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Neil, C. Lang
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Publisher: New York : D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ph hayyam, haven of the sea It is the technicalterm used of a special district in at least four placesout of the six where it occurs.1 Zebulon was to dwellat the haven of the sea.2 It is twice mentioned asa particular part of the Land of Promise.3 It shouldin every instance have been translated the haven ofthe sea, for this Hebrew word hhoaph is the originof our word haven. A glance at the map will showwhere this region was. In all the coast line of Pales-tine there is but one natural haven, harbour, or bay,and that is this bay of Acre, or, as it should be called,the bay of Haifa. This word Haifa is in Arabic the 1 Gen. xlix. 13; Deut. i. 7 ; Joshua ix. 1; Judges v. 17. 2 Gen. xlix. 13. 3 Deut. i. 7 ; Joshua ix. 1. JOPPA TO BEYROUT 257 same as the Hebrew word hhoaph, coming from thesame root, and means haven. Haifa, at the south ofthe bay, and not Acre, at its northern end, is in thetrue harbour, the sheltered part of the bay, and pre-serves the technical Hebrew name, the haven of the
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TEMPLE OF THE SUN, BAALBEK sea. This splendid inheritance, the key of Palestine,as Napoleon well called it, fell to the tribe of Asher. Asher rested on the haven of the sea (hhoaph hayyam),And abode in his bays,1 1 Judges v. 17. •7 258 RAMBLES IN BIBLE LANDS when he should have rallied to the standard of Barak.The word bays here, in the plural, is a figure, theplural of majesty, by which a noun which is intendedto be understood in the singular is put in the plural toclothe it with force and emphasis. It generally addsto the singular noun the adjective great or much. Bays in this verse obviously means great bay, forAsher had only one bay, seeing there is not anotherin the whole country. Acre is mentioned only once in Scripture under thename Accho, as a city of Asher from which that tribefailed to drive out the inhabitants.1 But it occurs again,under its Roman name of Ptolemais, as a place visitedby Paul on a voyage from Tyre to Caesarea.2 It was,as we have said, a great city in the d

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