Petra.noun
an ancient.ruined
city, also known as Sela, which predates
the occupation of it by the
Edomites
in B.C.E.
1200 and is located in present-day southwest Jordan (map),
having flourished
as a trade center from B.C.E. 4th century
until its capture by the
Romans in 106 A.D.
then by Moslems in the 7th century
and by Crusaders in the 12th
century; ruins of the rose-red city were discovered in 1812; Petra was
an ancient strong city.(Psalms
60:9), chief city among scores,
which once filled that region:.Judges
1:36 "And the coast of the Amorites
was from the going up to Akrabbim, from the rock and upward."
Yet the prophets of God foretold its downfall and
its abandonment to solitude and desolation, in terms which strikingly agree
with the facts:.Jeremiah
49:15,16 "For, lo, I will make you small among
the heathen and despised among men. Your terribleness has deceived you
and the pride of thy heart, O you that dwells in the clefts of the rock,
that holds the height of the hill. Though you should make your nest as
high as the eagle, I will bring you down from thence, says the Lord.".Obadiah
1:1-4.
When its ruin took place
we are not informed. There were Christian churches there in the fifth and
sixth centuries, but after 536 A.D.
no mention is made of it in history, often altered by the satanic.cabal
existing since the beginning of people on Earth. Why?
The place is mentioned in 2Kings
14:7. Here it say that Amaziah
king of Judah slew ten thousand men of Edom in the valley of Salt and took
Sela by war. The ruins of this place were in modern times first visited
by Burckhardt, 1812 and attest
the splendor
of the ancient city. In the red sandstone of the which the valley is composed
are upwards of two hundred and fifty sepulchres,
entirely cut out of the rock, the greater part of them with Grecian ornaments.
There is a mausoleum in the shape of a temple, of colossal dimensions,
likewise cut out of the rock, with all its apartments, its vestibule, peristyle,
etc. It is a most beautiful specimen of Grecian architecture and in perfect
preservation. There are other mausolea with obelisks, apparently in the
Egyptian style, a whole amphitheater cut out of the rock with the remains
of a palace and of several temples. Upon the summit of the mountains, which
closes the narrow valley on its western side (Mount Hor), is the tomb of
Haroun or Aaron. It is held in great
veneration by the Arabs. It is still called' Jebel Neby Haroon' meaning
'mount of the prophet Aaron' and on its summit stands a Mohammedan tomb
of Aaron on the site of a still more ancient structure and marking perhaps
the place of his burial. That this was indeed the ancient Sela or Petra
is established by various concurring proofs, such as by the historians
Josephus, Eusebius and Jerome affirm that the location and ruins correspond
with the notices given in the Bible and by Pliny and Strabo.
Subsequent travelers, especially Laborde, have
given minute and graphic description of this wonderful city, with drawings
of the principal ruins. The valley of Petra 2,200 feet above the great
valley El-Arabah, is about a mile long from north to south and half a mile
wide, with numerous short ravines in its sides, making its whole circuit
perhaps four miles. It is accessible through ravines at the north and the
south; but the cliffs, which define it on the east and west, are precipitous
and vary from two hundred to one thousand feet in height. The main passage
into the city is on the east and begins between cliffs forty feet high
and fifty yards apart, which soon become higher, nearer and full of excavated
tombs. This winding ravine is a mile long and gives entrance to a small
brook; its sides at one place are but twelve feet apart and two hundred
and fifty feet high. At the termination of this narrow gorge you confront
the most splendid of all the structures of Petra, el-Khusneh, the temple
mentioned by Burckhardt, hewn out of the face of the opposite cliff. Here
you enter a wider ravine, which leads northwest, passes the amphitheatre
in a recess on the left and at length opens on the great valley of the
main city towards the west. The tombs excavated in these and in all the
side gorges, are without number, rising range above range. Many of them
are approached by steps cut in the rock, while others are inaccessible,
at the height of nearly four hundred feet. The theatre was so large as
to accommodate more than three thousand persons. The palace, called Pharaoh's
house by the Arabs, is the chief structure not excavated in the mountain
that survives in any good degree the ravages of time; it was evidently
a gorgeous building. Most of the valley is strewn with the ruins of public
edifices and with fragments of pottery. The brook flows through the valley
towards the west and passes off through a narrow gorge like that by which
it entered. One of the finest temples, the Deir, stands high up in a ravine
on the west side. It is hewn out of the solid rock, are eight feet in diameter.
A singular charm is thrown over the whole by the beauty of the stone from
which these various structures are wrought. It is fine and soft sandstone,
variegated with almost every variety of hues, red, purple, black, white,
azure and yellow, the deepest crimson and the softest pink blending with
each other, while high above the sculptured monuments the rocks rise in
their native rudeness and majesty. The whole strange and beautiful scene
leaves on the spectator's mind impressions, which nothing can efface.
plant.noun,.plural.plants
in botany,
any of various.photosynthetic,
eukaryotic,
multicellular.organisms
of the kingdom 'Plantae', characteristically
producing embryos,
containing chloroplasts, having cellulose cell walls and lacking the power
of locomotion;
a plant having no permanent woody stem such as an herb;
a building or group of buildings equipped for manufacture
of a product; a factory; a person
or thing put into place in order to mislead or function secretly (a person
placed in a group of spectators to influence behavior, such as are called
agents
provocateurs; a person stationed in a given location as a spy or an
observer); a misleading piece of evidence placed so as to be discovered
plant, planted,
planting,
plants.transitive
verbs
to place or set seeds in the ground to grow; to
sow
(plant a field in radish); to place spawn
or young fish in water or an underwater bed for cultivation
(plant oysters); to stock
with spawn or fish; to set firmly in position; fix (planted both feet on
the ground); to establish; found
(plant a colony); to fix firmly in the mind; implant;
to station a person for the purpose of functioning in secret, as by observing,
spying or influencing behavior (detectives were planted all over the store)
plantable.adjective
phallic.adjective
of,
relating.to.or.resembling
a phallus
phallically.adverb
phallus.noun,.plural.phalluses
or phalli
the penis; the sexually undifferentiated.tissue
in an embryo
that becomes the penis or clitoris;
a representation of the penis and testes
pen.noun,.plural.pens
an instrument
for writing or drawing with ink or similar fluid (a ballpoint pen; a fountain
pen; a quill); an instrument for writing regarded as a means of expression
("Tyranny
has no enemy so formidable as
the pen"....William
Cobbett)
pen, penned,
penning,
pens.transitive
verbs
to write or compose
with or as if with a pen
penner.noun,.plural.penners
penmanship.noun,.plural.penmanships
the art,
skill
and style
of handwriting; calligraphy
pen.noun,.plural.pens
a fenced enclosure
for animals (a pig pen; a playpen)
pen, penned.or.pent,
penning,
pens.transitive
verbs
to confine
in or as if in a pen; to enclose
pent up.adjective
not given expression
(he was pent up from all else when building our cabin in the country);
repressed;
pent-up often refers
to emotions,
energies having been restrained
pen.noun,.plural.pens
a female swan
pen.noun,.plural.pens
a penitentiary; a
prison
pen, penned,
penning,
pens.intransitive
verbs
to place into an area of
confinement,
such
as a penitentiary
penitentiary.noun,.plural.penitentiaries
a prison for those convicted
of major crimes
penitentiary.adjective
of or for the purpose of
penance; penitential; relating to or used for safely removing threats to
society or reformation of criminals or wrongdoers
prey.noun,.plural.preys
an animal hunted or caught
for food; quarry;
one that is defenseless,
especially
in the face of attack; a victim;
the act or practice
of preying
prey,
preyed,
preying,preys.intransitive
verbs
to hunt, catch or eat as
prey (owls prey on mice; crooks
prey on others to take advantage of them); to victimize
or make a profit at someone else's
expense; to plunder or pillage;
to exert a baneful
or injurious.effect;
spoil;
booty;
date 1200-1300 A.D. from Old
French 'preie' from
Latin 'praeda'
meaning 'something
seized' as articles
taken from an enemy
preyer.noun,.plural.preyers
ply,
plied,
plying,
plies.verbs
to join
together, as by molding
or twisting; to double over cloth,
for example
ply.noun,.plural.plies
a layer, as of doubled-over
cloth or of paperboard; one of the sheets of wood glued together to form
the veneer called.plywood;
one of the strands twisted
together to make yarn, rope
or thread (a three-ply cord); biasply
(a bias ply tire)
ply,
plied,
plying,
plies.verbs
transitive verb use.to
use diligently; wield
(plies a needle); to engage in
diligently;
practice (plies the
carpenter's trade; a whale or ship that plies the waters off the coast);
to handle; to traverse or sail
over regularly (trading ships
plied the routes between coastal ports); to continue supplying or offering
to (plied their guests with excellent food)
intransitive verb use.to
traverse a route or course regularly (the boat plies between the islands
on a weekly schedule; to perform or work diligently or regularly (a person
who had plied at the weaver's trade
for 20 years)
petri dish.noun,.plural.petri
dishes
a small shallow dish of
thin glass or plastic with a loose cover used especially for cultures
of bacteriology, such as cells
placed in one back in the 1930's that are still living today; something,
as a place or situation, that fosters
development or innovation (the
college was a petri dish for radical
views)
purchase,
purchased,
purchasing,
purchases.transitive
verbs
to obtain
in exchange for money or its
equivalent;
buy
purchase.noun,.plural.purchases
the act
or an instance of buying; something.bought;
acquisition
through the payment of money or its equivalent
purchaser.noun,.plural.purchasers
parhelion.noun,.plural.parhelia
a bright spot sometimes
appearing on either side of the sun, often on a luminous
ring or halo, this bright spot being
the small nearly round halo on what is called the parhelic circle, located
most frequently just outside this halo at 22 degrees;
also called sun dog; from Greek
'para-' meaning 'beside'
parhelic.adjective
parhelic circle.noun,.plural.parhelic
circles
also called parhelic ring
para-.prefix
beside; near; alongside
(parathyroid); beyond (paranormal); similar
to; resembling; subsidiary;
assistant (paraprofessional)
promissory note.noun,.plural.promissory
notes
a written promise to pay
or repay a specified.sum
of money at a stated time
or harshly, by on
demand
promissory.adjective
containing,
involving
or having the nature of a promise
promise.noun,.plural.promises
declaration.assuring
that one will or will not do something;
if you promise that you will do something, you say to someone that you
will definitely do it (the
post office has promised to resume
first class mail delivery to the area on Friday); a vow;
something promised; indication
of something favorable to come;
expectation
(a promise of spring in the milder air); indication of future excellence
or success (a young singer of great promise)
promise,
promised,
promising,
promises.verbs
transitive verb use.to
commit oneself by a promise to do or give; pledge
(promised a quick answer; left early but promised to return); to afford
a basis for expecting (thunderclouds
that promise rain)
intransitive verb use.to
make a declaration assuring that something will or will not be done; to
afford a basis for expectation (she promised she would meet us at this
restaurant)
promiser.noun,.plural.promisers