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Gabara

GABARA, or Gabaroth, a town in Galilee. Josephus speaks of it in several passages of the book concerning his own life, and in his history of the Jewish wars, as if it were one of the principal cities of this Joseph. de vita sua. p. 1017.Province. Gabara was forty furlongs from Jotapata. M. Reland shews, that sometimes the Transcribers have inserted Gadara for Gabara in the text of Josephus.

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Augustin Calmet, O.S.B., “Gabara,” in Calmet's Dictionary of the Holy Bible, Complete and Unabridged, English translation, Mind of the Church, https://mindofthechurch.com/works/calmet-dictionary/g/gabara/.

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