G1695GreekἘmmaoῦs
Ἐμμαοῦς
emmaus, a place in palestine
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Total Occurrences
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Books
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Old Testament
1
New Testament
Detailed Definition
- 1the village to which the two disciples were going when our lord appeared to them on the way, on the day of resurrection
Etymology & Derivation
probably of hebrew origin (compare h3222)
Scholarly Notes
luke indicates its distance from jerusalem as sixty stadia or 7.5 miles (12 km). josephus mentions "a village called emmaus" at the same distance. the site of emmaus remains yet to be identified.