Wady

At the end of five hours and a half we reached Wady Rouak (Arabic); here the term Wady is applied to a narrow strip of ground, the bed of a winter torrent, not more than one foot lower than the level of the plain, where the rain water from the inequalities of the surface collects, and produces a vegetation of low shrubs, and a few Talh trees.

Travels in Syria and the Holy Land John Lewis Burckhardt 1800

The different villages comprised under the collective term Wady, are generally separated from the Wadys on their northern or southern side by a part of the mountain projecting close to the river, which thus forms a natural division.

Travels in Nubia 2004

But another place is fixed by tradition in Wady Shuweib, or Jethro's valley, on the east of the mountain of Moses. sat down by a well -- (See on [14] Ge 29: 3).

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

Marah is almost universally believed to be what is now called Howarah, in Wady Amarah, about thirty miles from the place where the Israelites landed on the eastern shore of the Red Sea -- a distance quite sufficient for their march of three days.

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

(El-arish); mount Shapher (Cassius); Moseroth, adjacent to mount Hor, in Wady Mousa.

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

FOSTER (One Primeval Language) has shown that the inscriptions on the rocks in Wady-Mokatta, along Israel's route through the desert, record the journeys of that people, as Cosmas Indicopleustes asserted,

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

Wady el-Khurayk, because it drains a height of that name: the others bear the generic term Wady el-Safrá, so called, like the hauteville hill, from the tawny-yellow colour of the rocks.

The Land of Midian — Volume 1 Richard Francis Burton 1855

Euphrates, the one called Wady Haouran [Arabic], begins on the hill’s western side; the other Wady Tebbel [Arabic], on its northern side.

Travels in Syria and the Holy Land John Lewis Burckhardt 1800

Temples ad infinitum – Tosko – Crocodiles – Derr and Amada again – Wady Sabooah – Haughty beauty – A nameless city – A river of sand – Undiscovered Temple – Maharrakeh – Dakkeh – Fortress of

A Thousand Miles Up the Nile 1891

Now this Wady was a desert waste, without grass or water; so she turned a third face of the jewel towards the sky, and said, “By the virtue of the names of Allah, let trees upgrow here and a river flow beside them!”

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006