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noun
- a district of ancient Palestine, E of the Jordan River, in present N Jordan.
- Mount, a mountain in NW Jordan. 3596 feet (1096 meters).
noun
- a historic mountainous region east of the River Jordan, rising over 1200 m (4000 ft)
noun
- Old Testament a grandson of Manasseh; ancestor of the Coileadites (Numbers 26: 29–30)
Biblical site (Gen. xxxi:21, etc.), traditionally from the name of a grandson of Manasseh, perhaps from Aramaic gal “heap of stones.”