Hollow Syria, the name (not found in Scripture) given by the Greeks to the extensive valley, about 100 miles long, between the Lebanon and the Anti-Lebanon range of mountains.
Source:Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)Public domain
Place
Coele-Syria
Hebrew & Greek words with this meaning
Also in Smith's Bible Dictionary (1863)
(hollow Syria), the remarkable valley or hollow which intervenes between Libanus and Anti-Libanus, stretching a distance of nearly a hundred miles. The only mention of the region as a separate tract of country which the Jewish Scriptures contain is probably that in (Amos 1:5) where “the inhabitants of the plain of Aven” are threatened in conjunction with those of Damascus. The word is given in the Authorized Version as CELO-SYRIA.
Source: Smith’s Bible Dictionary (1863) · Public domain
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