{"def":{"lit":"warm baths","short":"Emmaus, a place in Palestine","long":["the village to which the two disciples were going when our Lord appeared to them on the way, on the day of resurrection"]},"deriv":"probably of Hebrew origin (compare H3222)","pronun":{"ipa":"ɛm.mɑˈus","ipa_mod":"e̞m.mɑˈus","sbl":"emmaous","dic":"em-ma-OOS","dic_mod":"ame-ma-OOS"},"see":["H3222"],"comment":"Luke indicates its distance from Jerusalem as sixty stadia or 7.5 miles (12 km). Josephus mentions \"a village called Emmaus\" at the same distance. The site of Emmaus remains yet to be identified."}