A rugged region, corresponds to the Heb. Argob (q.v.), the Greek name of a region on the east of Jordan (Luke 3:1); one of the five Roman provinces into which that district was divided. It was in the tetrarchy of Philip, and is now called the Lejah.
Region
Trachonitis
- Name means
- stony
- Today
- region
- Location
- 32.833°N, 36.500°E · related-surrounding
- Mentioned
- 1 verse
About Trachonitis
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897).
Nearby
Every mention
Luke
3:1
Places: Theographic Bible Metadata (CC BY-SA 4.0), with locations from OpenBible.info. Many ancient sites are uncertain.