Dura

The circle, the plain near Babylon in which Nebuchadnezzar set up a golden image, mentioned in Dan. 3:1. The place still retains its ancient name. On one of its many mounds the pedestal of what must have been a colossal statue has been found. It has been supposed to be that of the golden image.

(a circle), the plain where Nebuchadnezzar set up the golden image, (Daniel 3:1) has been sometimes identified with a tract a little below Tekrit, on the left bank of the Tigris, where the name Dur is still found. M. Oppert places the plain (or, as he calls it, the “valley”) of Dura to the southeast of Babylon, in the vicinity of the mound of Dowair or Duair, where was found the pedestal of a huge statue.

DU'RA, the plain near Babylon where Nebuchadnezzar set up a golden image. Dan 3:1. Oppert identifies it with Duair, a little south-east of Babylon where the pedestal of a huge statue was discovered.

same as Dor

DU'RA, the plain near Babylon where Nebuchadnezzar set up a golden image. Dan 3:1. Oppert identifies it with Duair, a little south-east of Babylon

where the pedestal of a huge statue was discovered.

Part of speech: noun (n.)

Short form for Dura mater.