Dict: smith - COELESYRIA

smith:

COELESYRIA - C>@ - (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 kjv@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.