Avith ("ruin") was an

Edomite Edom (; Edomite: ; he, אֱדוֹם , lit.: "red"; Akkadian: , ; Ancient Egyptian: ) was an ancient kingdom in Transjordan, located between Moab to the northeast, the Arabah to the west, and the Arabian Desert to the south and east. ...

city. It was the capital of the Edomite king

Hadad ben Bedad Hadad (Hebrew: הֲדַד), son of Bedad (בְּדַד), was a king of Edom mentioned in the Bible, in Genesis 36:31-43. He succeeded Husham in the apparently elective kingship of the Edomites. He is described as having moved the capital of Edom t ...

. According to the Bible, Hadad ben Bedad was one of the kings of Edom before there were kings in Israel, that is, before the coronation of

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("widely" dated around 1025 BCE). Avith is mentioned only twice in the

Hebrew Bible The Hebrew Bible or Tanakh (;"Tanach"
''Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary''. Hebrew: ''Tān ...

: in a list of Edomite kings in Genesis (), and in a copy of the same list found in Chronicles (). Its location is unknown''Holman Bible Dictionary,'' (1991), "Avith." but presumably it was in what is now southern

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