Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)
), the Greek name of a region on the east of Jordan (Luke 3:1); one of the five Roman provinces into which that district was divided. It was in the tetrarchy of Philip, and is now called the Lejah.
Smith's Bible Dictionary (1863)
(a rugged region), (Luke 3:1) is in all probability the Greek equivalent for the Aramaic Argob, one of the five Roman provinces into which the country northeast of the Jordan was divided in New Testament times.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible (1898) & Schaff's Bible Dictionary
T. times. It lay to the east of Ituraea and Gaulonitis and to the south of Damascus, and included the remarkable region of the modern Lejah (see Argob) and part of the western slopes of Jebel Hauran. The emperor Augustus entrusted it to Herod the Great on the condition that he should clear it of robbers. Herod Philip succeeded to the tetrarchy. Luke 3:1. d. 33, and the emperor Caligula bestowed the province of Trachonitis upon Herod Agrippa I. d. 53.
Hitchcock's Bible Names (1869)
stony