- Ἰεριχώ
- Ἰεριχώ, ἡ (also Ἱερ-, Ἰερειχώ, Ἱερειχώ) indecl. (יְרִיחוֹ; LXX; Just., D. 111, 4. On the word s. W-S. §10, 1a. Joseph. varies betw. Ἱεριχώ, gen.-οῦς and Ἱεριχοῦς, gen.-οῦντος; s. Niese index. Ἰεριχοῦς, -οῦντος also Galen XI 693 K. and Steph. Byz. s.v., but in Strabo 16, 2, 41 Ἰερικοῦς. On the spelling s. B-D-F §38) Jericho, a city in Judea, not far from the ford across the Jordan just north of the Dead Sea Mt 20:29; Mk 10:46; Lk 18:35; Hb 11:30; 1 Cl 12:2. Since a much-traveled road led to Jerusalem, 150 stades (Jos., Bell. 4, 474) or about 30 km. away, a customs house was located here Lk 19:1. The road fr. Jerusalem to Jericho, which leads through desolate mountainous country (Jos., loc. cit. ἔρημον κ. πετρῶδες), was notoriously unsafe Lk 10:30 (AvVeldhuizen, TSt 25, 1907, 41–43).—ESellin and CWatzinger, Jericho 1913; Dalman, Orte3 257ff; PThomsen, Jericho: Reallex. d. Vorgesch. VI 196, 153ff; JPritchard, The 1951 Campaign at Herodian Jer.: BASOR no. 123, ’51, 8–17; JKelso, NT Jericho: BA 14, ’51, 34–43; LMowry, ibid. 15, ’52, 26–42.—BHHW II 816–19. OEANE III 220–24.
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