Pharagx Zare. Ravine Zared. Section of the desert. (This entry is not in the Latin.)
Phear. Well in the desert. Where the people were. (This entry is not in the Latin.)
Phathoura. City beyond Mesopotamia where Balaam (the soothsayer) came from. Located near Eleutheropolis there is another village (named Phathoura) on the road to Gaza.
Phogōr (Bēthphogōr). Mountain in Moab to which (king) Balak led Balaam (the Soothsayer). Located above the place now called Libiados (Livias). There is another (village) Phogōr near Bethlehem (which is now called Faora).
Phasga. City of the Amorrites. It is also a mountain to the east of Phasga. Aquila (interprets) "tomb" (quarry) and the Septuagint "of the tomb" (in a quarried place).
[Phanouel. City which Jeroboam built.]
Phanouēl. Tower which Gedeon destroyed. One of the sons of ōr is called Phanouēl.
[Phraathōn. Home of Abdon judge of Israel "in the mountain of Amalek."]
Pharagx Ennom. Ravine Ennon. Ge Ennom in Hebrew. Therefore some affirm this to be Gebenna near Jerusalem. It is said to be the name of the Ravine of Josephat. (This entry is not in the Latin.)
Phelmoni Almoni. Aquila "so and so" or "a certain." Symmachus "such a place." Theodotion "to a certain (place)" Elmoni (of which there is a full discussion in the book Hebrew Questions ).
Phogō. City of the king of Edom.
Pharphar. River of Damascus.
Phathori. Territory of Egypt as in Ezechiel and Jeremia where the Jews (having fled) dwelled.
Chalannē. City of King Nebrod (Nemrod) in Babylon. Noted in Isaia (saying) "Chalanne where the tower was built."
Chalak. City of Assyria which Assur built coming from the land of Sennaar.
Charran. There is even now in Mesopotamia (beyond Edessa) a city called Karra. [Where the Roman soldiers were defeated and Grassus, their leader, was captured.]
Chebrōn. Formerly called Arbok. (Arbe for which the Greek wrongly has Arbok.) Founded seven years before Tanis of Egypt. Noted above and described. Was the royal city of the Enakim. [Who we must believe were strong and gigantic.]
Chōba. "It is left (north) of Damascus." There is a village Choba now in that region where Hebrews believing on the Christ [and keeping all the commandments of the Torah] are called Ebionites. [Against such doctrines Paul the apostle wrote to the Galatians.]
Chabratha. Aquila (interprets) "by the road" (i.e., near the road) going to Ephratha of Bethleem where Rachel died bearing Benjamin. [We have seen this word above and we spoke of it in the book Hebrew Questions .]
Chasbi. Where the wife of Juda bore a son. A deserted place (ruin) is now pointed out in the region of Eleutheropolis near Odollam. [This is fully discussed in the book Hebrew Questions .]
Chōrēb. Mountain of God in the territory of Moab. Near Mt.Sinai beyond Arabia in the desert [Where the mountain and the desert or the Saracens called Faran meet. It seems to me that the two names are for the same mountain which is now called Sinai and now Choreb.]
Charada. Station of the children of Israel.
Chenereth. Sea. Border of Judaea. Lot of (tribe of) Nephthali. [But the town which later in honor of Tiberius Caesar, Herod the King of Judaea restored and called Tiberias first bore this name.]
Chepheira. City (village) of Gabaōn (of the city of Gabaon). (In) tribe of Benjamin.
Chasalōn. Tribe of Benjamin on the border of Jerusalem. A (very) large village.