This was the name of a country. Jeremiah 51:27.

It was to Armenia that the sons of Sennacherib fled.

In the King James Bible, 2 Kings 19:37 and Isaiah 37:38 translate the word “Ararat” as “Armenia.” However, other versions, including the New King James Version, simply say “land of Ararat.” In this area of modern Turkey, near the Russian and Iranian borders, there is a large mountain named Mount Ararat. At the close of the seventh century B.C.

It is only in comparatively modern times that the present name has been given to it. The "mountains of Ararat" on which the ark rested were probably those of the Kurdish range which separates Armenia from Mesopotamia and Kurdistan. Although the 7th cent.

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There are in this region two mountains of great altitude, the Aghri-Dagh and the Kara-Dagh, the highest of which is 17,260 feet above the sea-level; and naturally legend chooses this as the place where the ark settled. The booty obtained from the Nairi lands rarely included valuable items, but rather livestock.

Likewise Berosus locates the place "in the mountain of the Kordyaeans" or Kurds (Ant., I, iii, 6), while the Syriac version has Hardu in Gen. 8:4 instead of Ararat. ChristianAnswers.Net WebBible Encyclopedia, Satellite view of the mountain known as Mount Ararat or Kuh-i-nuh today.

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: 2 Rois 19 : 37: Or, comme il était prosterné dans la maison de Nisroc, son dieu, Adrammélec et Scharetser, ses fils, le frappèrent avec l'épée, et s'enfuirent au pays d'Ararat ('Ararat).Et Esar-Haddon, son fils, régna à sa place. the kingdom of Ararat came to an end, and the country was occupied by a people who are ancestors of the Armenians of the present day.

4 On the seventeenth day of the seventh month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat. ), who defeated Sardur II at Arpad in 743.

Jeremiah 51:27 Ararat is associated with Minni and Ashkenaz, which according to the Assyrian monuments lay just to the east of Armenia. b.c.

From the name of Sardur’s father, Lutipri, it is clear that a new dynasty had succeeded that of King Arame, with a new center at Tuspa. In this area of modern Turkey, near the Russian and Iranian borders, there is a large mountain named Mount Ararat. (with exhaustive bibliography). More information about the Flood catastrophe—. This statement is partially confirmed by the Babylonian Chronicle (iii 34-38). Several of Shalmanezer’s campaigns are depicted on the bronze gates of Balawat. All rights reserved. Its general elevation is 6,000 feet above the sea.

The name “Ararat” is mentioned four times in the Bible’s original manuscripts (Genesis 8:4; 2 Kings 19:37; Isaiah 37:38; Jeremiah 51:27). also names Uruaṭri among his enemies in the N. None of these notices would lead one to believe that as yet the petty princes of the area had coalesced into a political unit. In the year 832 b.c.

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In 2Kings 19:37 "Ararat" is translated Armenia; but it is more correctly described in Jeremiah 51:27 as a country near Minni, that is, near Armenia.

This elevated plateau of Armenia has still many attractions, and is eminently suited to have been the center from which the human race spread in all directions. Ararat = "the curse reversed: precipitation of curse" a mountainous region of eastern Armenia, between the river Araxes and the lakes Van and Oroomiah, the site where Noah's ark came to rest (TWOT) the mountain where Noah's ark came to rest

Bibliography F. W. König, Handbuch der chaldischen Inschriften (1955); A. Goetze, Kleinasien (21957), 187ff. The original name of the kingdom occupying Armenia was Bianias, which Ptolemy transliterated Byana. 1.

The "mountains" mentioned were probably the Kurdish range of South Armenia. How did animals get from the Ark to isolated places, such as Australia? Some Armenian historians, such as Ashot Melkonyan, link the origin of the word "Ararat" to the root of the endonym of the indigenous peoples of the Armenian …

Ararat Excerpt from the Lexham Bible Dictionary , the most advanced Bible dictionary. In General Editor.