Trachonitis

2 definitions found

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Trachonitis
     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.
     



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

  Trachonitis, stony