Baal-Zephon

Baal-Zephon

Baal-Zephon, 1) (Myth.), s.u. Baal 1); 2) (a. Geogr.), Stadt in Ägypten, unweit der Stelle, wo die Israeliten das Rothe Meer überschritten.


Pierer's Lexicon. 1857–1865.

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