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The name which the [[Text:EBD:Jew (EBD)|Jews]] gave in their proper tongue, i.e., in [[Text:EBD:wikipedia:Aramaic|Aramaic]], to the [[Field (EBD)|field]] which was purchased with the [[Text:EBD:Money (EBD)|money]] which had been given to the betrayer of our [[Text:EBD:Lord (EBD)|Lord]]. The word means "field of [[Text:EBD:Blood (EBD)|blood]]." It was previously called "the [[Text:EBD:Potters field (EBD)|potter's field]]" (Matt. 27:7, 8; Acts 1:19), and was appropriated as the [[Text:EBD:Burial (EBD)|burial]]-place for [[Text:EBD:Stranger (EBD)|strangers]]. It lies on a narrow level terrace on the [[Text:EBD:South (EBD)|south]] face of the [[Text:EBD:Valley (EBD)|valley]] of [[Text:EBD:Hinnom (EBD)|Hinnom]]. Its modern name is Hak ed-damm.
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