Βασανῖτις

Basanitis

Translated by Richard Davis5 Jan 2003Vetting: high10 revisions

5 words

A territory [of that name].

Greek original · Adler’s text

Βασανῖτις· χώρα.

Betacode

*basani=tis: xw/ra.

Also spelled *basanei=tis: Joshua 13:11 etc.
The Jewish Encyclopedia (web address 1) suggests that *basani=tis is a Greek transliteration of the Hebrew בשן Bašan, and that the area is also called Batanaia (beta 179). See also beta 136, omega 6.