Armenia

Arme'nia (Α᾿ρμενία), a country of Western Asia, is not mentioned in the original language of Scripture under that name (on the Harmonah of Am 4:3, see Rosenmuller, in loc.), though it occurs in the English version (2Ki 19:37), where our translators have very unnecessarily substituted it for Ararat (comp. marginal reading); but is supposed to be alluded to in the three following Hebrew designations, which seem to refer either to the country as a whole, or to particular districts. See ASIA.

1. ARARAT, אֲרָרָט, the land upon (or over) the mountains of which the ark rested at the Deluge (Ge 8:4; comp. Josephus, Ant. i, 3, 5); whither the sons of Sennacherib fled after murdering their father (2Ki 19:37; Isa 37:38); and one of the " kingdoms" summoned, along with Minni and Ashkenaz, to arm against Babylon (Jer 51:27). That there was a province of Ararad in ancient Armenia we have the testimony of the native historian, Moses of Chorene (Hist. Armen. ed. Whiston, Lond. 1736, p. 361). It lay in the centre of the kingdom, was divided into twenty circles, and, being the principal province, was commonly the residence of the kings or governors. See ARARAT.