hebron

listen to the pronunciation of hebron
English - English
A city in Palestine
{i} city on the West Bank of the Jordan River under the control of the Palestinian National Authority (holy to both Jews and Muslims as the site of Abraham's tomb)
Arabic Al-Khall City (pop., 1997 est.: 119,401) in the West Bank territory, southwest of Jerusalem. It is a sacred city of Judaism and Islam as the home and burial place (at the Cave of Machpelah) of the patriarch Abraham. King David made Hebron his capital briefly in the 10th century BC. Various Muslim dynasties ruled the city from AD 635 until after World War I (1914-18), except from 1100 to 1260, when the Crusaders controlled it. It was part of the British mandate of Palestine from 1923 until the first Arab-Israeli war in 1948, when it came under the control of Transjordan (later Jordan). Along with the rest of the West Bank, it was annexed by Jordan in 1950 but was captured by Israel during the Six-Day War (1967). It remained under full Israeli administration until 1997, when Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization agreed on a partial Israeli pullout from Hebron and other West Bank cities
It is one of most ancient cities in the Middle East Sentence error: missing the
in the satire of Absalom and Achitophel, in the first part stands for Holland, but in the second part for Scotland Hebronite (3 syl ), a native of Holland or Scotland
Located in the southern West Bank, the city is holy to Muslims and Jews who both pray at the Cave of Makhpela, the burial place of the matriarchs and patriarchs common to both faiths Within the city a small, ultra-religious group of Jews lives amongst 65,000 Palestinians On January 15, 1997, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Leader Yassir Arafat agreed to a partial Israeli withdrawal from Hebron, which effectively signaled the consent of Netanyahu's right-wing coalition to the political process of swapping land for peace
A major city in Judah, the place from which David first ruled; Abraham and many other ancestors were buried here See Chapter 8

Related Terms

Hebron massacre
killing of 29 Moslem worshipers by Baruch Goldstein in the city of Hebron
arba
four, a giant, father of Anak From him the city of Hebron derived its name of Kirjath-arba, i e , the city of Araba (Josh 14: 15; 15: 13; 21: 11; Gen 13: 18; 23: 2) (See HEBRON )
arba
is a meeting located in Greenfork Township, Randolph County, Indiana Worship began there in 1815 A preparative meeting was set up under New Garden Monthly Meeting in 1819