FROM SMITH’S BIBLE DICTIONARY (1884)

Smith’s Bible Dictionary (1884) — public domain, printed whole.

(lit. lowland), a name denoting the country west of the Jordan and the Dead Sea, and between those waters and the Mediterranean; given by God to Abraham�s posterity, the children of Israel. (Exodus 6:4; Leviticus 25:38) [PALESTINA AND PALESTINE]