Merom

4 definitions found

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Merom
     height, a lake in Northern Palestine through which the Jordan
     flows. It was the scene of the third and last great victory
     gained by Joshua over the Canaanites (Josh. 11:5-7). It is not
     again mentioned in Scripture. Its modern name is Bakrat
     el-Huleh. "The Ard el-Huleh, the centre of which the lake


     occupies, is a nearly level plain of 16 miles in length from
     north to south, and its breadth from east to west is from 7 to 8
     miles. On the west it is walled in by the steep and lofty range
     of the hills of Kedesh-Naphtali; on the east it is bounded by
     the lower and more gradually ascending slopes of Bashan; on the
     north it is shut in by a line of hills hummocky and irregular in
     shape and of no great height, and stretching across from the
     mountains of Naphtali to the roots of Mount Hermon, which towers
     up at the north-eastern angle of the plain to a height of 10,000
     feet. At its southern extremity the plain is similarly traversed
     by elevated and broken ground, through which, by deep and narrow
     clefts, the Jordan, after passing through Lake Huleh, makes its
     rapid descent to the Sea of Galilee."
     
       The lake is triangular in form, about 4 1/2 miles in length by
     3 1/2 at its greatest breadth. Its surface is 7 feet above that
     of the Mediterranean. It is surrounded by a morass, which is
     thickly covered with canes and papyrus reeds, which are
     impenetrable. Macgregor with his canoe, the Rob Roy, was the
     first that ever, in modern times, sailed on its waters. (See {JORDAN}.)
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Merom, eminences; elevations
  

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:

  Merom, IN (town, FIPS 48474)
    Location: 39.05687 N, 87.56785 W
    Population (1990): 257 (141 housing units)
    Area: 1.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 47861

From U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000) [gaz-place]:

  Merom, IN -- U.S. town in Indiana
     Population (2000):    294
     Housing Units (2000): 135
     Land area (2000):     0.361319 sq. miles (0.935812 sq. km)
     Water area (2000):    0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
     Total area (2000):    0.361319 sq. miles (0.935812 sq. km)
     FIPS code:            48474
     Located within:       Indiana (IN), FIPS 18
     Location:             39.056950 N, 87.566573 W
     ZIP Codes (1990):     47861
     Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
     Headwords:
      Merom, IN
      Merom