International Standard Bible Encyclopedia LOWLANDlo'-land (shephelah; compare Arabic sufalat, "the lowest part"): The western part of Palestine, including the maritime plain and the foothills. There has been an attempt to restrict the term to the foothills, at least as far as the more ancient documents are concerned, but there can be little doubt that the maritime plain should be included. the Revised Version (British and American) has "lowland" throughout for shephelah, while the King James Version has "low country" (2 Chronicles 26:10; 2 Chronicles 28:18), "low plains" (1 Chronicles 27:28 2 Chronicles 9:27), "plain" (Jeremiah 17:26 Obadiah 1:19 Zechariah 7:7), "vale" or "valley" (Deuteronomy 1:7 Joshua 9:1; Joshua 10:40). Strong's Hebrew 8219. shephelah -- lowland... 8218, 8219. shephelah. 8220 . lowland. Transliteration: shephelah Phonetic Spelling: (shef-ay-law') Short Definition: lowland. Word ... /hebrew/8219.htm - 6k Library Ancestry, Birth, Education, Environment: 1513(?)-1546 George Buchanan, Scholar Discipline Andromeda Outside the Eden Gate. Healing a Phoenician Woman's Daughter. A Young Man who Said, "Send Me" The Death of Two Brave Warriors Down the Islands The Cedars of Lebanon. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (n.) Land which is low with respect to the neighboring country; a low or level country; -- opposed to highland.Thesaurus Lowland (34 Occurrences)... Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. LOWLAND. ... See COUNTRY; SHEPHELAH. Alfred Ely Day. Multi-Version Concordance Lowland (34 Occurrences). ... /l/lowland.htm - 19k Foothills (19 Occurrences) Shephe'lah (10 Occurrences) Western (19 Occurrences) Sycamore (9 Occurrences) Features (3 Occurrences) Sycomore-trees (6 Occurrences) Sycamore-fig (6 Occurrences) Negeb (37 Occurrences) Negev (39 Occurrences) Bible Concordance Lowland (34 Occurrences)Genesis 13:12 Abram went on living in the land of Canaan, and Lot went to the lowland towns, moving his tent as far as Sodom. Genesis 19:17 And when they had put them out, he said, Go for your life, without looking back or waiting in the lowland; go quickly to the mountain or you will come to destruction. Genesis 19:25 And he sent destruction on those towns, with all the lowland and all the people of those towns and every green thing in the land. Genesis 19:28 And looking in the direction of Sodom and Gomorrah and the lowland, he saw the smoke of the land going up like the smoke of an oven. Genesis 19:29 So it came about that when God sent destruction on the towns of the lowland, he kept his word to Abraham, and sent Lot safely away when he put an end to the towns where he was living. Deuteronomy 1:7 turn, and take your journey, and go to the hill country of the Amorites, and to all the places near there, in the Arabah, in the hill country, and in the lowland, and in the South, and by the seashore, the land of the Canaanites, and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates. Joshua 9:1 It happened, when all the kings who were beyond the Jordan, in the hill country, and in the lowland, and on all the shore of the great sea in front of Lebanon, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, heard of it Joshua 10:40 So Joshua struck all the land, the hill country, and the South, and the lowland, and the slopes, and all their kings. He left none remaining, but he utterly destroyed all that breathed, as Yahweh, the God of Israel, commanded. Joshua 11:2 and to the kings who were on the north, in the hill country, in the Arabah south of Chinneroth, in the lowland, and in the heights of Dor on the west, Joshua 11:16 So Joshua captured all that land, the hill country, all the South, all the land of Goshen, the lowland, the Arabah, the hill country of Israel, and the lowland of the same; Joshua 12:8 in the hill country, and in the lowland, and in the Arabah, and in the slopes, and in the wilderness, and in the South; the Hittite, the Amorite, and the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite: Joshua 15:33 In the lowland, Eshtaol, Zorah, Ashnah, Judges 1:9 Afterward the children of Judah went down to fight against the Canaanites who lived in the hill country, and in the South, and in the lowland. 2 Samuel 18:23 Whatever may come of it, he said, I will go. Then he said to him, Go. So Ahimaaz went running by the lowland road and overtook the Cushite. 1 Kings 7:46 He made them of liquid metal in the lowland of Jordan, at the way across the river, at Adama, between Succoth and Zarethan. 1 Kings 10:27 The king made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars made he to be as the sycamore trees that are in the lowland, for abundance. 1 Chronicles 27:28 and over the olive trees and the sycamore trees that were in the lowland was Baal Hanan the Gederite: and over the cellars of oil was Joash: 2 Chronicles 1:15 The king made silver and gold to be in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars made he to be as the sycamore trees that are in the lowland, for abundance. 2 Chronicles 4:17 The king made them of liquid metal in the lowland of Jordan, in the soft earth between Succoth and Zeredah. 2 Chronicles 9:27 The king made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones, and he made cedars to be as the sycamore trees that are in the lowland, for abundance. 2 Chronicles 26:10 He built towers in the wilderness, and dug out many cisterns, for he had much livestock; in the lowland also, and in the plain: and he had farmers and vineyard keepers in the mountains and in the fruitful fields; for he loved farming. 2 Chronicles 28:18 The Philistines also had invaded the cities of the lowland, and of the South of Judah, and had taken Beth Shemesh, and Aijalon, and Gederoth, and Soco with its towns, and Timnah with its towns, Gimzo also and its towns: and they lived there. Nehemiah 3:22 After him were working the priests, the men of the lowland. Nehemiah 6:2 Sanballat and Geshem sent to me saying, Come, let us have a meeting in one of the little towns in the lowland of Ono. But their purpose was to do me evil. Nehemiah 12:28 And the sons of the music-makers came together from the lowland round about Jerusalem and from the daughter-towns of the Netophathites, Isaiah 35:1 The waste land and the dry places will be glad; the lowland will have joy and be full of flowers. Isaiah 40:3 A voice of one crying, Make ready in the waste land the way of the Lord, make level in the lowland a highway for our God. Isaiah 41:19 I will put in the waste land the cedar, the acacia, the myrtle, and the olive-tree; and in the lowland will be planted the fir-tree, the plane, and the cypress together: Jeremiah 17:26 They shall come from the cities of Judah, and from the places around Jerusalem, and from the land of Benjamin, and from the lowland, and from the hill country, and from the South, bringing burnt offerings, and sacrifices, and meal offerings, and frankincense, and bringing sacrifices of thanksgiving, to the house of Yahweh. Jeremiah 32:44 Men shall buy fields for money, and subscribe the deeds, and seal them, and call witnesses, in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, and in the cities of the hill country, and in the cities of the lowland, and in the cities of the South: for I will cause their captivity to return, says Yahweh. Jeremiah 33:13 In the cities of the hill country, in the cities of the lowland, and in the cities of the South, and in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, shall the flocks again pass under the hands of him who numbers them, says Yahweh. Jeremiah 48:8 And the attacker will come against every town, not one will be safe; and the valley will be made waste, and destruction will come to the lowland, as the Lord has said. Obadiah 1:19 Those of the South will possess the mountain of Esau, and those of the lowland, the Philistines. They will possess the field of Ephraim, and the field of Samaria. Benjamin will possess Gilead. Zechariah 7:7 Aren't these the words which Yahweh proclaimed by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, and its cities around her, and the South and the lowland were inhabited?'" 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