How to Pronounce Coele-syria

SEE-lee-SEER-ee-uh

Coele-syria is pronounced SEE-lee-SEER-ee-uh: five syllables, stress on the first and third.

What is Coele-syria?

Hollow Syria, the name (not found in Scripture) given by the Greeks to the extensive valley, about 100 miles long, between the Lebanon and the Anti-Lebanon range of mountains.

Adapted from Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897), public domain.

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