Τραχωνῖτις

English (Strong)

from a derivative of τραχύς; rough district; Trachonitis, a region of Syria: Trachonitis.

English (Thayer)

Τραχωνίτιδος, ἡ, Trachonitis, a rough (Greek τραχύς)) region, tenanted by robbers, situated between Antilibanus (on the west) and the mountains of Batanaea (on the east), and bounded on the N. by the territory of Damascus: Josephus, Antiquities 16,9, 3and often). (See Porter in BB. DD.)