Bible Location
Meaning: stony · 1 cross reference · Modern-day map available
Trachonitis was the rugged north-eastern district ruled alongside Ituraea in Luke's dating of John the Baptist's ministry. It is important because it helps anchor the Gospel chronology in a real frontier map east of Galilee. First appears in Luke 3:1.1
AI summary: Trachonitis matters because Luke locates the coming of God's word amid actual tetrarchies and rough border regions, not in an abstract world. The district belongs to the political geography of the Gospel opening.1
| Book | Cross-References |
|---|---|
| Luke |
Figure1: A table of cross references between the selected passage and other passages (Data from Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.)
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, place metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.