Ezem ( he, עצם, ''vars.'' ‛Atsem, 'Asam, Azem, 'Osem or Otzem, meaning ''strength, might, bone, to close,'' ''to defend'', also ''self'', ''self-same'' and ''strenuous''
) is an unidentified site in the
Negev
The Negev or Negeb (; he, הַנֶּגֶב, hanNegév; ar, ٱلنَّقَب, an-Naqab) is a desert and semidesert region of southern Israel. The region's largest city and administrative capital is Beersheba (pop. ), in the north. At its southe ...
of
Judah toward the Edomite border.
It is mentioned in the
Biblical
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Book of Joshua
The Book of Joshua ( he, סֵפֶר יְהוֹשֻׁעַ ', Tiberian: ''Sēp̄er Yŏhōšūaʿ'') is the sixth book in the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament, and is the first book of the Deuteronomistic history, the story of Isra ...
(; ). In the
King James Version
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it is spelled "Azem" in Joshua and "Ezem" in
Chronicles ().
In Joshua 19:1-3 and 1 Chronicles 4:29 it is one of the towns "in the midst of
the inheritance of Judah" assigned to
Simeon.
See also
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Cities in the Book of Joshua The Book of Joshua lists almost 400 ancient Levantine city names (including alternative names and derivatives in the form of words describing citizens of a town) which refer to over 300 distinct locations in Israel, the West Bank, Jordan, Lebanon a ...
References
References
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Hebrew Bible places
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