Samaria means watch mountain and is the name of both a city and a territory.

Modern name for judea. Judea is very small apart from the Shephelah and the plain Judea was 55 miles long from Bethlehem to Beersheba and from 25 to 30 miles wide about 1350 square miles and nearly one-half was desert. West Bank it included the whole area ruled andor chiefly inhabited by Jews. The other two were Galilee in the north and Samaria in the centre.

The name Judeais a Greek and Romanadaptation of the name Judah which originally encompassed the territory of the Israelitetribe of that name and later of the ancient Kingdom of Judah. Judea seems the logical choice. In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram saying Unto thy seed have I given this land from the river of Egypt unto the great river the river Euphrates.

List of Biblical place names in North America Notes edit Tentatively identified by Conder Kitchener with the biblical city of Rabba Josh. Nimrud Tablet K3751 dated c. This meant not only the area called Judea in Israel today.

Judah Judea Yehudaḥ Judaea also spelled Judea or Judah Hebrew Yehudaḥ the southernmost of the three traditional divisions of ancient Palestine. The regions Israelite name is from the Hebrew root. 733 BCE is the earliest known record of the name Judah written in Assyrian cuneiformas Yaudaya or KURia-ú-da-a-a.

Others use the term to refer to the land promised Abram in Genesis 1518-21. Judea Iudaea was the Roman name for the Land of Israel during the heyday of the Roman Empire. So Judea was ruled out.

Also it applied only to a very small territory. But Judea is the historical name of the area around Jerusalem which at that time seemed the area least likely to become part of the state. But Judea would also have been a good choice.