• Calneh (כַלְנֵה) was a city founded by Nimrod, mentioned three times in the Hebrew Bible (Genesis 10:10), (Isaiah 10:9), & (Amos 6:2). The verse in Genesis...
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  • fabrication Caiphas Calah Calcol Caleb-Ephratah Caleb, bold, impetuous Calem Calneh Calno Calvary Camon, "derivation uncertain" Canaan Cana Candace Capernaum...
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    is said to have been "Babel [Babylon], and Erech [Uruk], and Akkad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar." Verse 11:2 states that Shinar enclosed the plain...
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    (רֵאשִׁית מַמְלַכְתּוֹ rēšit̲ mamlak̲to) were Babylon, Uruk, Akkad and Calneh in Shinar (Mesopotamia)—understood variously to imply that he either founded...
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  • Bochim Byblos – Phoenician state Cabul Calah/Kalhu/Nimrud – Assyrian city Calneh – Assyrian city Cana – Galilee Canaan – Region on the Eastern shore of the...
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    as founded by Nimrod along with Uruk, Akkad and perhaps Calneh—all of them in Shinar ("Calneh" is now sometimes translated not as a proper name but as...
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    Nimrod, a son of Cush, was the founder and king of Babylon, Erech, Akkad and Calneh, in Shinar (Gen 10:10). The Bible also makes reference to someone named...
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    beginning of his Nimrod's kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. Out of that land he went forth into Assyria, and...
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    And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded...
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    mine own mind had almost been confounded; along with Erech and Accad, and Calneh and Nisibis, the place of the reciter of oral traditions, Rabbi Judah ben...
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