Antipatris

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This entry incorporates text from the public domain Easton's Bible Dictionary, originally published in 1897.

Antipatris - a city built by Herod the Great, and called by this name in honour of his father, Antipater II of Judea. It lay between Caesarea and Lydda, two miles inland, on the great Roman road from Caesarea to Jerusalem. To this place Paul was brought by night (Acts 23:31) on his way to Caesarea, from which it was distant 28 miles. It is identified with the modern, Ras-el-Ain, where rise the springs of Aujeh, the largest springs in Israel.