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The Definition of the word Shoa

Shoa

Opulent, the mountain district lying to the north-east of "Babylonia, anciently the land of the Guti, or Kuti, the modern" Kurdistan. The plain lying between these mountains and the "Tigris was called su-Edina, i.e., "the border of the plain." "This name was sometimes shortened into Suti and Su, and has been" regarded as = Shoa (Ezek. 23:23). Some think it denotes a place in Babylon. (See [584]PEKOD.)


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