Glossary: Places

Places named in the Book of Remembrance Series, from Mount Pethach, Heleah and the Village of Nod to Salem, Zion and Secacah, with what the books record about each.

Secacah

Pronunciation: seh-KAY-kuh The Meaning of the Name Secacah means “a place enclosed with protection” (I Achee 6:106; Moses 15:119). A Real Archaeological Parallel Qumran, on the Dead Sea’s northwestern shore, has been identified by some scholars with the biblical Secacah of Joshua 15:61–62. Excavations there uncovered numerous mikva’ot — ritual immersion baths fed by an […]

Mount Pethach

Pronunciation: puh-THAK Also Known As The righteous call it Mount Zion. The wicked call it Hermon (I Achee 13:2), and it is “known to the Decadarchoi as Hermon” (I Achee 1:41). A note in the Book of Melchizedek adds that it is “known as Mount Hermon today” (Melchizedek 12:54 n. 113). The Books of Melchizedek […]