Pella

Pel´ah

1 A city in Macedonia that was the home of its kings. 2 A major site in the Transjordan prominent as a city of the Decapolis (Matt 4:25; Mark 5:20) in Roman times. Modern Khirbet Fahil, it stands in the lower foothills of the eastern edge of the Jordan Valley about eighteen miles south of the Sea of Galilee.