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Arba

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Arba or Arbah (both: är`bə), in the Bible, eponym of Kirjath-arba, "the city of Arba," usually called Hebron Hebron, city (2003 est. pop. 155,000), the West Bank, called Al-Khalil in modern Arabic. Hebron is situated at an altitude of 3,000 ft (910 m) in a region where grapes, cereal grains, and vegetables are grown.
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. Arba is called the father of Anak Anak , according to a folk tradition in the Bible, an ancestor of the Anakim, a tribe of giants inhabiting Hebron and its vicinity at the time of the Israelite conquest of Canaan. Arba is cited as Anak's father, and Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai as his sons.
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Arba 

a type of cart or wagon. The word arba came into the Russian language from Turkic peoples. The word refers primarily to two-wheeled high carts in Middle Asia, but in the Caucasus, the Crimea, and other southern regions of the Ukrainian SSR, it refers to long four-wheeled wagons used chiefly for the transport of grain.



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The incident took place outside the Jewish settlement of Kiryat Arba on Hebron's outskirts.
Eighty-nine year old Shiha Salah explained that today's attack was one in a long line that began in 1993 when Israeli settlers from Kiryat Arba in Hebron claimed they bought five houses from an Armenian owner.
The government on Thursday demolished Arab terraces and pools near Kiryat Arba, built illegally by the European Union-funded organization, "Oxfam.
 
 
 
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