Irha-heres

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From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Irha-heres
     according to some MSS., meaning "city of destruction." Other
     MSS. read _'Irhahares_; rendered "city of the sun", Isa. 19:18,
     where alone the word occurs. This name may probably refer to
     Heliopolis. The prophecy here points to a time when the Jews
     would so increase in number there as that the city would fall


     under their influence. This might be in the time of the
     Ptolemies. (See {ON}.)