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Calneh

Town

Location disputed Nippur: about 940 km (590 miles) east of Jerusalem

Where Scholars Place It

  • Nippur Possible
  • Hursagkalamma Less likely

Calneh in the Bible Dictionary · Another Calneh (town · Isaiah 10:9)

Named in 1 Verse

  • Genesis 10:10 And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

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