1. (n.) A flat, open country.

2. (a.) Flat; open; level.

CHAMPAIGN

sham-pan', sham'-pan (`arabhah, biq`ah): A champaign is a flat open country, and the word occurs in Deuteronomy 11:30 the King James Version (the Revised Version (British and American) "the Arabah") as a translation of `arabhah, for which the King James Version has in most places "the plain," and the Revised Version (British and American) "the Arabah," when it is used with the article and denotes a definite region, i.e. the valley of the Jordan from the Sea of Galilee to the Dead Sea (Deuteronomy 2:8; Deuteronomy 3:17; Deuteronomy 4:4:9 Joshua 3:16; Joshua 8:14; Joshua 11:16; Joshua 12:1, 3, 1; 2 Samuel 2:29; 2 Samuel 4:7 2 Kings 14:25; 2 Kings 25:4 Jeremiah 39:4; Jeremiah 52:7), and also the valley running southward from the Dead Sea to the Gulf of Akabah (Deuteronomy 1:1). Ezekiel 47:8 has for ha-`arabhah "the desert," the King James Version margin "plain," the Revised Version (British and American) "the Arabah." The plural is used in Joshua 5:10 2 Kings 25:5, "the plains of Jericho," and in Numbers 22:1; Numbers 26:3, "the plains of Moab." Elsewhere `arabhah is rendered in English Versions of the Bible "desert" or "wilderness" (Job 24:5; Job 39:6 Isaiah 33:9; Isaiah 35:1, 6; 40:03:00; 41:19:00; 51:3 Jeremiah 2:6; Jeremiah 17:6; Jeremiah 50:12). At the present day, the Jordan va lley is called the Ghaur (compare Hebrew `ur, "to dig," me`arah, "cave," and Arabic magharah, "cave"). This name is also applied to the deltas of streams flowing into the Dead Sea from the East, which are clothed with thickets of thorny trees and shrubs, i.e. Ghaur-ul-Mezra`ah, at the mouths of Wadi-Kerak and Wadi-Beni-Chammad, Ghaur-uc-Cafiyeh, at the mouth of Wadi-ul-Hisa. The name "Arabah" (Arabic al-`Arabah) is now confined to the valley running southward from the Dead Sea to the Gulf of Akabah, separating the mountains of Edom from Sinai and the plateau of at-Tih.

See ARABAH.

Ezekiel 37:2 the King James Version margin has "champaign" for biq`ah, which is elsewhere rendered "vale" or "valley." Biq`ah seems to be applied to wide, open valleys, as: "the valley of Jericho" (Deuteronomy 34:3), "the valley of Megiddo" (2 Chronicles 35:22 Zechariah 12:11), "the valley of Lebanon" (Joshua 11:17). If Baal-Gad be Ba`albeq and "the valley of Lebanon" be Coele-syria, the present name of Coele-syria, al-Biqa` (plural of buq`ah, "a low, wet place or meadow"), may be regarded as a survival of the Hebre w biq`ah.

Alfred Ely Day

6160. arabah -- a steppe or desert plain, also a desert valley ...
... especially (with the article prefix) the (generally) sterile valley of the Jordan
and its continuation to the Red Sea -- Arabah, champaign, desert, evening ...
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Drunkenness.
... The other one, having spent a term in our Illinois State University at Champaign,
married a beautiful neighbor girl and moved to Missouri. ...
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The Song of David
... The world, the clustering spheres he made, The glorious light, the soothing shade,
Dale, champaign, grove, and hill: The multitudinous abyss, Where secrecy ...
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A Great Part of South Judea Cut Off under the Second Temple. ...
... Shua, Hazar-Susah," &c. And it seems to denote some champaign plain and
level, lying between the mountains. Hence the habitation ...
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Acon. Ptolemais.
... Chapters 61-70 Chapter 64 Acon. Ptolemais. "Ptolemais" (which is also called Acon)
"is a city of Galilee on the sea-coast, situate in a great champaign, but it ...
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To the Rev. A. Brandram
... a letter was brought to me by a peasant, dated from the prison of Fuente La Higuera,
a village eight leagues from Madrid, in the campina, or champaign of Alcala ...
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Song to David
... The world,"the clustering spheres, He made,. The glorious light, the soothing shade,.
Dale, champaign, grove, and hill; The multitudinous abyss,. ...
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To the Rev. A. Brandram
... wilderness. The following is a list of the villages of the Sagra; or champaign
country of Toledo, already supplied with Testaments. ...
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A Strain of Sodom.
... Inhospitable, with its lords, is gone: The champaign is one pyre; here embers
rough. And black, here ash-heaps with hoar mould, mark out. ...
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Sharing Christ's Life
... the train in the tunnel, but when he dies, as we call it, there is a jerk, and then
it comes right out of the tunnel into the fair, open, champaign country of ...
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Champaign (1 Occurrence)
... 2. (a.) Flat; open; level. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. CHAMPAIGN. ... Alfred
Ely Day. Multi-Version Concordance Champaign (1 Occurrence). ...
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Champion (7 Occurrences)

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Chamois (1 Occurrence)

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Plains (31 Occurrences)
... 11:30 Are they not on the other side Jordan, by the way where the sun goeth down,
in the land of the Canaanites, which dwell in the champaign over against ...
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Features (3 Occurrences)
... Jordan. See CHAMPAIGN; COUNTRY; DESERT; EAST; HILL; LOWLAND; SOUTH. Alfred
Ely Day. Multi-Version Concordance Features (3 Occurrences). ...
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Desert (322 Occurrences)
... khirbah, "a ruin"; kharab, "devastation"), from charabh "to be dry"; compare also
`arabh, "to be dry," and `arabhah, "a desert" or "the Arabah" (see CHAMPAIGN...
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Plain (113 Occurrences)
... equals Arabic Ghaur (Ghor). In Deuteronomy 11:30, the King James Version
has "champaign" (which see). The "plains of Moab" (Numbers ...
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Vale (20 Occurrences)
... See BROOK; CHAMPAIGN; LOWLAND; RIVER; SHEPHELAH. Alfred Ely Day. JEZREEL, VALE OF.
See ESDRAELON, PLAIN OF. SHAVEH, VALE OF. sha'-ve (`emeq shaweh). ...
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Natural (49 Occurrences)
... See CHAMPAIGN; COUNTRY; DESERT; EAST; HILL; LOWLAND; SOUTH. Alfred Ely Day. NATURAL
HISTORY. his'-to-ri. See ANIMAL; BOTANY; BIRDS; FISH; INSECTS; ZOOLOGY. ...
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Champaign (1 Occurrence)

Deuteronomy 11:30 Are they not on the other side Jordan, by the way where the sun goeth down, in the land of the Canaanites, which dwell in the champaign over against Gilgal, beside the plains of Moreh?
(KJV)

Champaign

Champaign: A Flat, Open Country

Champion (7 Occurrences)

Chamois (1 Occurrence)

Plains (31 Occurrences)

Features (3 Occurrences)

Desert (322 Occurrences)

Plain (113 Occurrences)

Vale (20 Occurrences)

Natural (49 Occurrences)

Valley (187 Occurrences)

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