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The Places of Hebrews

Hebrews names 10 places; Egypt, Holy Place and Most Holy Place most often. 10 of them can be put on a map, 8 with confidence. The places and their references are OpenBible.info’s, which gathers what modern atlases and commentaries say about where each one stood.

Map of Egypt, Sinai and Canaan with the places named in Hebrews. Every place is listed in the table below.30°E35°E30°NHoly PlaceMost Holy PlaceMount SinaiSalemJerichoJerusalemMount ZionEgyptHoly PlaceMost Holy PlaceMount SinaiJerichoRed SeaN0200 km
  • Located with confidence
  • Location uncertain
  • Mountain
Egypt, Sinai and Canaan, with the coasts and lakes as they lie today. 1 place lies beyond the plate and is in the table.

Every place in Hebrews

The most often named first. Each place is set where its source puts it, and nowhere else; a place no source locates is listed and not drawn.

PlaceReferencesSourceConfidence
Egypt3:16, 8:9, 11:22, 11:26, 11:27OpenBible.infoHigh
Holy Place9:2, 9:8, 9:12, 9:25, 13:11OpenBible.infoHigh
Most Holy Place9:3, 9:7, 10:19, 10:20OpenBible.infoHigh
Mount Sinai12:18, 12:26OpenBible.infoUncertain (score 463)
Salem7:1, 7:2OpenBible.infoHigh
ItalyBeyond this plate.13:24OpenBible.infoHigh
Jericho11:30OpenBible.infoHigh
Jerusalem12:22OpenBible.infoHigh
Mount Zion12:22OpenBible.infoHigh
Red Sea11:29OpenBible.infoUncertain (score 164)

Places from OpenBible.info’s Bible Geocoding Data, under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence, and from Pleiades, © the Pleiades contributors, under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 licence. Coastlines, lakes and rivers from Natural Earth; relief from SRTM and ETOPO1 elevation data by way of the AWS Terrain Tiles; all public domain.