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