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HADES

Volume 11 · 69 words · 1842 Edition

in the Scriptures, is used in a variety of senses. Sometimes it signifies the invisible regions of the dead, sometimes the place of the damned, and sometimes the grave. In the Greek authors it is in general used to signify the regions of the dead.

HADIDÁ, a town of Syria, on the Euphrates, consisting of 300 houses, surrounded with fruit gardens. It is about thirty miles south-east of Anna.