KHIRBET QUMRAN

Meaning of KHIRBET QUMRAN in English

/kear"bet koom"rahn/

an archaeological site in W Jordan, near the NW coast of the Dead Sea: Dead Sea Scrolls found here 1947.

Also, Khirbet Qûmran .

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary. Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House . 2012

KHIRBET QUMRAN — geographical name see: Khirbat Qumran
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
KHIRBET QUMRAN — see Khirbat Qumran
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
QUMRAN — /koom"rahn/ , n. See Khirbet Qumran . Also, Qûmran .
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QUMRAN — also spelled Kumran region on the northwestern shore of the Dead Sea, notable since 1947 as the site of the …
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QUMRĀN — Site on the northwestern shore of the Dead Sea where the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered in 1947. Excavations less …
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QUMRAN — Site on the northwestern shore of the Dead Sea where the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered in 1947. Excavations less …
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KHIRBAT QUMRAN — or Khirbet Qumran geographical name locality West Bank on Wadi Qumran near NW shore of Dead Sea; site of an …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
QUMRAN, KHIRBAT — geographical name see: Khirbat Qumran
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
QUMRAN, KHIRBAT — — see Khirbat Qumran
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
KHIRBAT QUMRAN — or Khir·bet Qum·ran kir-ˈbat-küm-ˈrän locality West Bank on Wadi Qumran near NW shore of Dead Sea; site of an Essene …
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MANUAL OF DISCIPLINE — or Rule of the Community Major document produced by the Essene community of Jews. The manual, written on scrolls found …
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DEAD SEA SCROLLS — Caches of ancient, mostly Hebrew, manuscripts found at several sites on the northwestern shore of the Dead Sea (1947–56). The …
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DAMASCUS DOCUMENT — or Zadokite Fragments Document associated with the ancient Jewish community at Qumrān . The group had fled to the desert …
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DUALISM — in religion, the doctrine that the world (or reality) consists of two basic, opposed, and irreducible principles that account for …
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AARON — also called Aaron The Moor, a Moor and the beloved of Tamora, queen of the Goths, in Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus. …
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