erech in English

noun

biblical name of Uruk; one of the cities in the kingdom of Nimrod (Biblical); city in Gondor located in the far north of the province of Lamedon (in the fictional universe of J. R. R. Tolkien)

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1. The cornfields of Babylonia were mostly in the south, where Larsa, Lagash, Erech, and Calneh were the centres of an opulent agricultural population

2. According to the Bible, Nimrod, a son of Cush, was the founder and king of Babylon, Erech, Akkad and Calneh, in Shinar (Gen 10:10)

3. An ancient ziggurat has been uncovered there, along with many mounds and coffins that seem to indicate that Erech was once a burial ground of the Assyrian kings.

4. Genesis 10:10 View whole chapter See verse in context And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar

5. Androgynous deities of the ancient Greek world are connected to either the moon or the planet Venus who takes the form of two stars, worshipped as double Iŝtar, a bearded morning warrior goddess, or Iŝtar of Akkad, the masculine Iŝtar (ziqarat), and the evening goddess of love Iŝtar of Erech, equivalent to Aphrodite Ourania; Dionysos seems