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Ituraea. [Iturae'a]


A province on the east of the upper Jordan of which Herod Philip was made tetrarch. Luke 3: 1. Its boundaries cannot be well defined, but it reached toward Damascus and embraced the southern slopes of Anti-Lebanon. Its name is derived from JETUR, son of Ishmael. Gen. 25: 15.