Biblical place
Where was Ararat?
Biblical place identified in the local geography layer with Urartu.
First appears in Genesis 8:4 · 4 books · 4 chapters
Overview
Sacred land or high land, the name of a country on one of the mountains of which the ark rested after the Flood subsided (Gen. 8:4). The “mountains” mentioned were probably the Kurdish range of South Armenia. Modern identification: Urartu.
Ararat is represented in the local geography layer as Urartu. In this repository’s biblical text, the place first appears in Genesis 8:4 and is mentioned across 4 books, with 4 verse references collected into the glossary index.