PETRA (Ptolemy), Petræa (Silius Italicus), Petrina (Italicus), in both which last urbs is understood; an inland town of Sicily, to the south-west of Engyum. Now Petraglia (Cluverius).
PETRA Jeckael (2 Kings xiv.), a town of the Amalekites; near the Adscensus Scorpionis (Judges i.) and the valley of Salt in the south of Judea; afterwards in the possession of the Edomites, after destroying the Amalekites.