Shiloh

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S0344000 (shī′lō)1. An ancient village of central Palestine northwest of the Dead Sea. In the Bible, it was a meeting place and sanctuary for the Israelites and the site of a tabernacle where the Ark of the Covenant was kept until its capture by the Philistines.2. A locality in southwest Tennessee east of Memphis. The Civil War Battle of Shiloh (April 6-7, 1862) ended in the withdrawal of Confederate troops but claimed more than 10,000 casualties on both the Union and Confederate sides.

Shiloh

(ˈʃaɪləʊ) n (Placename) a town in central ancient Palestine, in Canaan on the E slope of Mount Ephraim: keeping place of the tabernacle and the ark; destroyed by the Philistines

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n. 1. a military national park in SW Tennessee: Civil War battle 1862. 2. an ancient town in central Palestine, west of the Jordan River.

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Shiloh - the second great battle of the American Civil War (1862); the battle ended with the withdrawal of Confederate troops but it was not a Union victorybattle of Pittsburgh Landing, battle of ShilohAmerican Civil War, United States Civil War, War between the States - civil war in the United States between the North and the South; 1861-1865Tennessee, TN, Volunteer State - a state in east central United States

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(shī`lō), town, central ancient Palestine, the modern Khirbet Seilun, the West Bank, NNE of Jerusalem. In biblical times it lay in the territory of EphraimEphraim
, in the Bible, younger son of Joseph and Asenath and eponymous ancestor of one of the 12 tribes of Israel. His tribe occupied the rugged country around Shiloh that later came to be called Mt. Ephraim.
..... Click the link for more information. . The Hebrews were, apparently, the first to build extensively on the site. Shiloh was home to the priests Eli and Ahijah, boyhood home of SamuelSamuel,
two books of the Bible, originally a single work, called First and Second Samuel in modern Bibles, and First and Second Kingdoms in the Septuagint. They are considered part of "Deuteronomistic history," in which the book of Deuteronomy functions as the interpretive key
..... Click the link for more information. , and the place where the Ark rested after the conquest of Canaan. It was the sanctuary and meeting place of the LevitesLevites
, a religious caste among the ancient Hebrews, descended from Jacob's son Levi and figuring prominently in the Bible. There were three divisions of Levites—Kohathites, Merarites, and Gershonites.
..... Click the link for more information. until the Philistines captured the Ark of the Covenant. References to it in the Bible are numerous.

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a town in central ancient Palestine, in Canaan on the E slope of Mount Ephraim: keeping place of the tabernacle and the ark; destroyed by the Philistines

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noun the second great battle of the American Civil War (1862)

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