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an-tip´a-tris (ἈντιÌπατÏις, AntıÌpatris): Is mentioned in Scripture only once, in connection with the descent of Paul from Jerusalem to Caesarea (). References will be found in Ant, XIII, xv 1; XVI, v, 2; BJ, I, xxi, 9. It was a town built by Herod the Great, and called after his father Antipater. It is probably identical with the modern RaÌ„s el-‛Ain, “fountain head,†a large mound with ruins at the source of Nahr el‛Aujeh, in the plain to the Northeast of Jaffa. There are remains of a crusading castle which may be the Mirabel of those times.