jabneel

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jabneel - Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary :

  Jabneel
  built by God. (1.) A town in the north boundary of Judah (Josh.
  15:11), called afterwards by the Greeks Jamnia, the modern
  Yebna, 11 miles south of Jaffa. After the fall of Jerusalem
  (A.D. 70), it became one of the most populous cities of Judea,
  and the seat of a celebrated school.
  
    (2.) A town on the border of Naphtali (Josh. 19:33). Its later
  name was Kefr Yemmah, "the village by the sea," on the south
  shore of Lake Merom.