AUSTER, the South. Negeb, the South, in Scripture denotes Arabia Petræa, or the Southern part of Edom or Deut. xxxiii. 23.Judah. Sometimes the Hebrews express it by the right hand. Eusebius and S. Jerom frequently make use of the word Daroma, to signify the South. This term is to be met with in many places of the Hebrew in the same sense.
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