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Dead Sea

The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable | 2006 | | Copyright

Dead Sea a salt lake or inland sea in the Jordan valley, on the Israel–Jordan border. Its surface is 400 m (1,300 ft) below sea level. The name is recorded from Middle English, and is a translation of Latin mare mortuum, Greek (in the writings of Aristotle) hē nekra thalassa. The term was used by the Greeks and Romans for the Arctic Ocean in the North of Europe, perhaps because it was regarded as devoid of life or movement.
Dead Sea fruit a name for a legendary fruit, of attractive appearance, which dissolved into smoke and ashes when held (also called apple of Sodom); figuratively, a hollow disappointing thing. The fruit are described in the Travels attributed to the 14th-century John de Mandeville.
Dead Sea Scrolls a collection of Hebrew and Aramaic manuscripts discovered in pottery storage jars in caves near Qumran between 1947 and 1956. Thought to have been hidden by the Essenes or a similar Jewish sect shortly before the revolt against Roman rule ad 66–70, the scrolls include texts of many books of the Old Testament; they are some 1,000 years older than previously known versions.

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Dead Sea

Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names | 2005 | | Copyright

Dead Sea (Arabic: al‐Baḥr al‐Mayyit; Hebrew: Yam Ha‐Melakh), Israel‐Jordan Nekrē Thalassa, Mare Mortuum ‘Dead Sea’ in Arabic from baḥr ‘sea’ and mayyit ‘dead’, although it is also known as Baḥr Lūṭ ‘Sea of Lot’, a reference in the Bible (Genesis 19: 26) to Lot's wife being turned into a pillar of salt here. The Hebrew name means ‘Salt Sea’ from yam ‘sea’, ha ‘the’, and melakh ‘salt’, because it is a land‐locked salt lake below sea level whose extreme salinity precludes animal and plant life. The Greek and Roman names have the same meaning.

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Dead Sea

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Dead Sea (Al-Bahr-al-Mayyit) Salt lake in the Jordan valley, on the Jordan-Israel border. It is fed by the River Jordan. The surface, 403m (1320ft) below sea level, is the lowest point on Earth. It is situated in a hot, dry region, and much water is lost through evaporation. One of the world's saltiest waters, large amounts of its salts are extracted. It supports no life.

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Dead Sea

A Dictionary of the Bible | 1997 | | Copyright

Dead Sea An enclosed area of water, 74 km. (46 miles) long and up to 16 km. (10 miles) broad with high salt content, below sea level, into which the River Jordan debouches. Fish cannot survive in it (cf. Ezek. 47: 9, 10).

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