Definition of Banias

1. bania [n] - See also: bania

Lexicographical Neighbors of Banias

bangtail muster
bangtail musters
bangtails
bangy
banhammer
banhammered
banhammering
banhammers
bani
bania
baniak
banian
banian tree
banians
banias (current term)
baning
banish
banish'd
banishable
banished
banisher
banishers
banishes
banishing
banishment
banishments
banisht
banister
banistered

Literary usage of Banias

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Rob Roy on the Jordan, Nile, Red Sea, & Gennesareth, &c.: A Canoe Cruise by John MacGregor (1870)
"fI 1HE Rob Roy had now floated on two of the great -*- sources of Jordan ; but another and the most interesting had yet to be seen.1 This is at banias, ..."

2. The Ride Through Palestine by John W[elsh] Dulles (1881)
"HOW gloriously did the morning of April 4th break on the camp at banias! ... So banias, with its rushing streams, its orchards, its poor modern houses and ..."

3. The Land and the Book, Or, Biblical Illustrations Drawn from the Manners and by William McClure Thomson (1883)
"Castle of banias.—Colonel Wilson and Lieutenant Kitchner.—Elevation of the Castle above the Village.—History of the Castle.—View over the Huleh. ..."

4. The Crusades: The Story of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem by Thomas Andrew Archer, Charles Lethbridge Kingsford (1894)
"Anar then joined the Franks in besieging banias in May, 1140. Timber was brought from Damascus, and before long a huge siege castle was erected, ..."

5. Later Biblical Researches in Palestine, and in the Adjacent Regions: A by Edward Robinson (1856)
"More to the right the castle of banias towered in its strength. ... Between this point and banias lay the supposed danger of 1 Judg. 18, 9. ..."

6. Biblical Researches in Palestine, and in the Adjacent Regions: A Journal of by Edward Robinson, Eli Smith (1856)
"I defer therefore, for the present, the more detailed account of the fountain and village of banias. The general direction of that lake from ..."

7. History of Art in Phœnicia and Its Dependencies by Georges Perrot, Charles Chipiez (1885)
"Plan of the rampart near banias. - - » ** * ^*s garrison is always evident. Moreover there is, between the gates, a series of salient and re-entering angles ..."

8. East of the Jordan: A Record of Travel and Observation in the Countries of by Selah Merrill (1881)
"But a relic which I highly prize is a stone ball that I found among the debris in an underground passage of the castle at banias. The passage was under the ..."

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