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for locations which do have their own article.

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Abana

Abana, according to 2 Kings 5:12, was one of the " rivers of Damascus", along with the Pharpar river.

Abdon

Abdon was a

Levitical city In the Hebrew Bible, the Levitical cities were 48 cities in ancient Israel set aside for the tribe of Levi, who were not allocated their own territorial land when the Israelites entered the Promised Land. Numbers 35:1-8 relates God's command t ...

Asher Asher ( ''’Āšēr''), in the Book of Genesis, was the younger of the two sons of Jacob and Zilpah, and Jacob's eighth son overall. He was the founder of the Israelite Tribe of Asher. Name The text of the Torah states that the name אָ� ...

allocated to the

Gershonite The Gershonites were one of the four main divisions among the Levites in Biblical times. The Bible claims that the Gershonites were all descended from the eponymous ''Gershon'' a son of Levi (not to be confused with Moses' son Gershom), although so ...

s according to Joshua 21:30 and 1 Chronicles 6:74.

Abel-Shittim

Abel-Shittim, the last Israelite encampment before crossing into the Promised Land, is identified by

Josephus Flavius Josephus (; , ; ), born Yosef ben Mattityahu (), was a Roman–Jewish historian and military leader. Best known for writing '' The Jewish War'', he was born in Jerusalem—then part of the Roman province of Judea—to a father of pr ...

with Abila in

Peraea Peraia, and Peraea or Peræa (from , ''hē peraia'', "land across") in Classical Antiquity referred to "a community's territory lying 'opposite', predominantly (but not exclusively) a mainland possession of an island state" according to Karl-Wilhe ...

, probably the site of modern Tell el-Hammam in

Jordan Jordan, officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, is a country in the Southern Levant region of West Asia. Jordan is bordered by Syria to the north, Iraq to the east, Saudi Arabia to the south, and Israel and the occupied Palestinian ter ...

Adam

Adam was a location which, according to Joshua 3:16, was along the Jordan River, near Zarethan. According to Cheyne and Black, it may be a scribal error for "Adamah".

Adadah

Adadah is the name of a town mentioned in Joshua 15:22, in a list of towns inside the territory of the

Tribe of Judah According to the Hebrew Bible, the tribe of Judah (, ''Shevet Yehudah'') was one of the twelve Tribes of Israel, named after Judah (son of Jacob), Judah, the son of Jacob. Judah was one of the tribes to take its place in Canaan, occupying it ...

. The name "Adadah" appears nowhere else in the Bible."Adadah", in According to the ''Encyclopaedia Biblica,'' the name "Adadah" may be a miswritten version of ''Ararah,'' a name equivalent to " Aroer".

Addan

Addan or Addon is a Babylonian location mentioned in Ezra 2:59 and Nehemiah 7:61.

Adithaim

Adithaim, mentioned only in Joshua 15:30, is listed among locations belonging to Judah in the

Shephelah The Shephelah () or Shfela (), or the Judaean Foothills (), is a transitional region of soft-sloping rolling hills in south-central Israel stretching over between the Judaean Mountains and the Coastal Plain. The different use of the term "Jud ...

."Adithaim", in

Adria

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"Adria"
in

Aesora

Aesora (or Esora) is a location mentioned only in Judith 4:4. The

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is considered canonical by most Christians, but not by Jews and most Protestants. The Septuagint calls it ''Aisora'', ''Arasousia'', ''Aisoraa'', or ''Assaron,'' depending on the manuscript."Esora"
in The book of Judith places it between Choba and the Valley of Salem. According to Cheyne and Black (1899), the exact location is uncertain. It could be the same as

Tel Hazor Tel Hazor (), translated in LXX as Hasōr (), and in Arabic Tell Waqqas or Tell Qedah el-Gul (), is an archaeological Tell (archaeology), tell at the site of ancient Hazor, located in the Upper Galilee, north of the Sea of Galilee, in the northe ...

, which is mentioned in the

book of Joshua The Book of Joshua is the sixth book in the Hebrew Bible and the Old Testament, and is the first book of the Deuteronomistic history, the story of Israel from the conquest of Canaan to the Babylonian captivity, Babylonian exile. It tells of the ...

; or at an As r- Michmethath (Joshua 16:6) which Blessed

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and the Bordeau Pilgrim place at modern

Tayasir Tayasir (, also spelled Tiaseer) is a Palestinian village in the Tubas Governorate of the Palestinian Authority, in the northern West Bank. It is located 3 kilometers northeast of Tubas and 22 kilometers northeast of Nablus. Nearby localities ...

Aetan

Aetan appears in the

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version of the

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Ahava

Ahava is the name of a canal or river mentioned in the

Book of Ezra The Book of Ezra is a book of the Hebrew Bible which formerly included the Book of Nehemiah in a single book, commonly distinguished in scholarship as Ezra–Nehemiah. The two became separated with the first printed Mikraot Gedolot, rabbinic bib ...

. The location is unknown. Albert Barnes says it was both a town and a river.

Almon

Almon is a location mentioned in Joshua 21:18 given to the

Kohathites The Kohathites were one of the four main divisions among the Levites in biblical times, the other three being the Gershonites, the Merarites, and the Aaronites (more commonly known as Kohanim). The Bible claims that the Kohathites were all desce ...

, and thought to be near the modern

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Almon, Mateh Binyamin Almon (), also known as Anatot (), is an Israeli settlement in the West Bank, organized as a community settlement. Built over land confiscated from the nearby Palestinian town of 'Anata, it falls under the jurisdiction of the Mateh Binyamin Reg ...

in the

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Amad

Amad is a biblical place-name mentioned only in Joshua 19:26."Amad", in It appears in a list of locations that make up the borders of the territory assigned to the biblical

Tribe of Asher According to the Hebrew Bible, the Tribe of Asher was one of the Tribes of Israel descended from Asher (), the eighth son of Jacob. It is one of the ten lost tribes. Biblical narrative According to the biblical Book of Joshua, following the comp ...

Amam

Amam (, ) is an unidentified site in the Negeb of Judah, near the border with

Edom Edom (; Edomite language, Edomite: ; , lit.: "red"; Akkadian language, Akkadian: , ; Egyptian language, Ancient Egyptian: ) was an ancient kingdom that stretched across areas in the south of present-day Jordan and Israel. Edom and the Edomi ...

, mentioned in Joshua 15:26.

Anaharath

Anaharath is described in Joshua 19:19 as a location on the border of the territory belonging to the

Tribe of Issachar According to the Hebrew Bible, the Tribe of Issachar () was one of the twelve tribes of Israel and one of the ten lost tribes. In Jewish tradition, the descendants of Issachar were seen as being dominated by religious scholars and influential in ...

. It was most likely located at the site now known as Tel Rekhesh/Tell el-Mukharkhash in the Tabor Stream valley.

Arah of the Sidonians

Arah of the Sidonians is a place-name which appears in Joshua 13:4. Other translations render the name Mearah. The initial syllable ''me-'' here is commonly interpreted as a preposition, yielding the translation "from Arah" instead of "Mearah". The ''me-'' is also interpreted as "from" by Thomas Kelly Cheyne, although he additionally proposed that further scribal error had influenced the word."Mearah", in

Arumah

Arumah is a location mentioned in Judges 9:41, as the place where

Gideon Gideon (; ) also named Jerubbaal and Jerubbesheth, was a military leader, judge and prophet whose calling and victory over the Midianites is recounted in of the Book of Judges in both the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Bible. Gideon was th ...

's son

Abimelech Abimelech (also spelled Abimelek or Avimelech; ) was the generic name given to all Philistine kings in the Hebrew Bible from the time of Abraham through King David. In the Book of Judges, Abimelech, son of Gideon, of the Tribe of Manasseh, is ...

lived for a time. The location is generally considered to be the same as the modern Jebel el-Urmah.

Ascent of Luhith

''See Luhith.''

Ashnah

Ashnah is the name given in Joshua 15 (verses 33 and 43) for two places in the Shephelah of Judah. For the first, the modern location Aslin has been proposed; for the second, Idna.

Ataroth-addar

Ataroth-addar is a location mentioned in Joshua 16:5. It may be the same location as the Ataroth mentioned in 16:2.

Aznoth-tabor

Aznoth-tabor is the name of a place in the territory of the

Tribe of Naphtali The Tribe of Naphtali () was one of the northernmost of the twelve tribes of Israel. It is one of the ten lost tribes. Biblical narratives In the biblical account, following the completion of the conquest of Canaan by the Israelites, Joshua a ...

. It is probably the modern Khirbet el-Jebeil, c. 3 miles north of

Mount Tabor Mount Tabor ( ; ; ), sometimes spelled Mount Thabor, is a large hill of biblical significance in Lower Galilee, Northern District (Israel), northern Israel, at the eastern end of the Jezreel Valley, west of the Sea of Galilee. In the Hebrew Bi ...

B

Beer

Beer was a location reached by the

Israelites Israelites were a Hebrew language, Hebrew-speaking ethnoreligious group, consisting of tribes that lived in Canaan during the Iron Age. Modern scholarship describes the Israelites as emerging from indigenous Canaanites, Canaanite populations ...

during their Exodus journey, mentioned in Numbers 21:16-18. After the death of

Aaron According to the Old Testament of the Bible, Aaron ( or ) was an Israelite prophet, a high priest, and the elder brother of Moses. Information about Aaron comes exclusively from religious texts, such as the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament ...

, the Israelites moved on, apparently at pace, through a series of locations along the

Moab Moab () was an ancient Levant, Levantine kingdom whose territory is today located in southern Jordan. The land is mountainous and lies alongside much of the eastern shore of the Dead Sea. The existence of the Kingdom of Moab is attested to by ...

ite/

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border. There was a well at Beer, where

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was able to assemble and refresh the travelling community, and which was associated with a song regarding the Israelite leaders and 'the lawgiver' in providing water. Another Beer (or Bera) is mentioned in Judges 9:21 as the place to which

's youngest son, Joatham or Jotham, fled to escape from

after his 69 brothers had been killed. Matthew Poole described Beer as "a place remote from

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, and out of Abimelech's reach"; and the

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suggests it is "either the same as Beeroth, among the heights of the

tribe of Benjamin According to the Torah, the Tribe of Benjamin () was one of the Twelve Tribes of Israel. The tribe was descended from Benjamin, the youngest son of the Patriarchs (Bible), patriarch Jacob (later given the name Israel) and his wife Rachel. In the ...

(Joshua 9:17), now El-Birch, 'the first halting-place for caravans on the northern road from

Jerusalem Jerusalem is a city in the Southern Levant, on a plateau in the Judaean Mountains between the Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean and the Dead Sea. It is one of the List of oldest continuously inhabited cities, oldest cities in the world, and ...

' ( Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, ''Sinai and Palestine'', p. 210); or a place called by

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'Beta', now El-Birch, eight

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from

Eleutheropolis Bayt Jibrin or Beit Jibrin ( lit. 'House of the Powerful') was an Arab village in the Hebron Subdistrict of British Mandatory Palestine, in what is today the State of Israel, which was depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. It was ...

(now Beit Jibrin), and possibly the same as the place of the same name described by Maundrell as four hours from Jerusalem, and two hours west of

Bethel Bethel (, "House of El" or "House of God",Bleeker and Widegren, 1988, p. 257. also transliterated ''Beth El'', ''Beth-El'', ''Beit El''; ; ) was an ancient Israelite city and sacred space that is frequently mentioned in the Hebrew Bible. Bet ...

; or, as

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thinks, Beer beyond

(Numbers 21:16 ee above". The commentary concludes that "it is impossible to decide which, or whether any, of these is the place designated as Jotham's place of refuge.

Beer-lahai-roi

Beer-lahai-roi or well of the Life which saw me is the name of a well in the Negev which is known for its appearance in a story in which God appears to

Hagar According to the Book of Genesis, Hagar is an Egyptian slave, a handmaiden of Sarah (then known as ''Sarai''), whom Sarah gave to her own husband Abram (later renamed Abraham) as a wife to bear him a child. Abraham's firstborn son, through Haga ...

."Beer-lahai-roi", in Later the

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claims that Isaac stayed near it. Genesis locates this well in the wilderness of Beer-sheba, "on the way to Shur ... between Kadesh and Bered". Because the ''Beer'' in Beer-lahai-roi is simply the Hebrew word "well", the

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renders the whole expression "the well Lahairoi". The biblical references to it may place it somewhere in the vicinity of the modern Bir 'Asluj.

Beeroth

''See Beeroth (biblical city).''
Beeroth (; in LXX ) is a minor city in Gibeon mentioned in .

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, Petrie, also

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and Budge identify the place name Baertou mentioned in the

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as biblical Beeroth.

Beon

Beon is a location mentioned only in Numbers 32:3. It may be a copying error for "Meon".

Bera

An alternative name for Beer.

Bered

Bered is a location mentioned only in Genesis 16:14, which locates Hagar between Kadesh and Bered at the time of her meeting with an angel while pregnant.

Berothah

Berothah is a place mentioned in passing in Ezekiel 47:16.

Beth-Anath

A place mentioned in Judges 1:33 and situated in the tribal territory of Naphtali.

Bethanath

Betharabah

Beth-aram

Betharbel

Betharbel ( Hosea 10:14)

Beth-aven

Beth-aven was a city located within the tribal territory of Benjamin (Joshua 18:12), associated with Jonathan's triumph over the Philistines in the Battle of Michmas. Beth-aven, in It Is opposed to Beth-el. In the same book, a caution is issued to Beth-Aven alongside

Gibeah Gibeah (; ''Gīḇəʿā''; ''Gīḇəʿaṯ'') is the name of three places mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, in the tribes of Tribe of Benjamin, Benjamin, Tribe of Judah, Judah, and Tribe of Ephraim, Ephraim respectively. Gibeah of Benjamin, als ...

and Ramah about a looming invasion. Proposals for Beth-Aven's location vary, with none confirmed. Some suggest it is a derogatory term for Beth-el, reflecting its association with

Jeroboam Jeroboam I (; Hebrew language, Hebrew: ''Yārŏḇʿām''; ), frequently cited Jeroboam son of Nebat, was, according to the Hebrew Bible, the first king of the northern Kingdom of Israel (Samaria), Kingdom of Israel following a Jeroboam's Revol ...

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Beth-azmaveth

Beth-barah

A place mentioned in Judges 7:24.

Beth-birei

Beth Car

Beth-car, Beth Car: The point to which the Israelites drove back the

Philistines Philistines (; LXX: ; ) were ancient people who lived on the south coast of Canaan during the Iron Age in a confederation of city-states generally referred to as Philistia. There is compelling evidence to suggest that the Philistines origi ...

following their raid on the Israelite assembly convened by

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at Mizpah, recorded in 1 Samuel 7:5-12.

Beth-diblathaim

Bethemek

Bether

Beth-ezal

Beth-gader

Beth-gamul

Beth Jeshimoth

Beth Jeshimoth (Hebrew, ''Beit ha-Yeshimot'') was a town in the Transjordan, which is mentioned in four verses of the

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mentions it in a description of where the Israelites encamped during their wilderness journeys. According to Joshua 13:20, it was part of the land allocated to the

Tribe of Reuben According to the Hebrew Bible, the Tribe of Reuben () was one of the twelve tribes of Israel. Unlike the majority of the tribes, the land of Reuben, along with that of Tribe of Gad, Gad and half of Manasseh (tribal patriarch), Manasseh, was on ...

. Ezekiel 25:9 lists it as one of three cities which constitute "the glory of the country" of

, in a passage in which God promises to punish Moab. During the

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, Beth Jeshimoth (Bezemoth) was captured by the Roman Imperial army, and was used by them to resettle deserters who had joined the Roman ranks. The

spells the name as Bethjesimoth and Bethjeshimoth. Classical Greek sources: Bezemoth. Beth Jeshimoth is commonly identified with the village of Sweimeh in modern-day Jordan.

Beth Lebaoth

Beth Lebaoth, Beth-lebaoth or Lebaoth is located in the Negev, and in territory which according to the

was assigned to the

Tribe of Simeon According to the Hebrew Bible, the Tribe of Simeon (; ''Šīm‘ōn'', "hearkening/listening/understanding/empathizing") was one of the twelve tribes of Israel. The Book of Joshua locates its territory inside the boundaries of the Tribe of Judah ...

."Beth-lebaoth", in

Beth-marcaboth

Beth-meon

Beth-millo

Beth-millo, ,

Beth Pelet

Beth Pelet (spelled Bethpalet and Bethphelet in the

) was a location in the territory assigned to the

by Joshua 15:27, and was occupied by Judahites in

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following the return from the

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according to Nehemiah 11:26. Its location is not certain, but may have been along the southern edge of Judah near the border with

Beth-pazzez

Beth Peor

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Sihon Sihon was an Amorite king mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, king of Ashtaroth, who refused to let the Israelites pass through his country. Chronicled in Numbers, he was defeated by Moses and the Israelites at the battle of Jahaz. He and Og were said ...

, king of the Amorites and Og, king of Bashan, after their captured lands were allocated to the tribes of

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, Gad and

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, and where Moses delivered his sermon summarizing covenant history and the Ten Commandments in the narrative of the

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Beth-phelet

Beth-rapha

Bohan

See Stone of Bohan.

C

Caleb-ephrathah

Caleb-ephrathah or Caleb-ephratah is a place mentioned only in 1 Chronicles 2:24, where it is said that

Hezron Hezron () is a name which occurs several times in the Hebrew Bible. It may refer to: * A plain in the south of Judah, south of Kadesh-barnea. (Book of Joshua, ) * A son of Reuben (son of Jacob). (Book of Genesis 46:9) * A grandson of Judah and ...

died there.

Camon

Kamon is mentioned only once in the

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name is given in the

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, both Καμων (Kamôn) and Ραμμω (Rhammô) are found in the

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. In the 19th century, Easton believed it was probably located on the slopes of

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. One possible etymology of the term could come from קָמָה (Qamāh), which means "to rise", possibly indicating that it was a fortified place situated on high ground. A place named Καμους (Kamous) was mentioned by

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and was conquered by

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. It might be the same location. However, according to more recent research, the term might have a primarily symbolic meaning, deriving from the

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Kαμίνος (Kaminos), which means "furnace". This interpretation is reinforced by

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, who interprets a passage related to Jair by stating: "And in the fire in which you will die, there you will have a dwelling place."

Carem

Carem appears in the

version of the

Casiphia

Casiphia or Kasiphia is a place-name found only in Ezra 8:17, referring to an unknown location in Babylon.''Holman Bible Dictionary'' (1991), "Casiphia."
/ref> Ezra is recorded as having gotten Levites from Casiphia in order to serve in the temple of Jerusalem.

Cave of Makkedah

''See Makkedah.''

Chephirah

''See Chephirah.''

Chezib

Chezib, a Canaanite village where the sons of Judah were born, thought to be '' Khirbet Ghazy''; now a ruin.

Culon

Culon appears in the

version of the

D

Diblah

Diblah (also called Diblath) is a place-name found in Ezekiel 6:14. It is probably a variant form of the name

Riblah The ancient town of Riblah, today a tell covered by a cemetery not far from the town of Ribleh on the Syrian side of the border with Lebanon, was in biblical times located on the northern frontier of the land of Canaan. The site lies on the east ...

Dilean

Dilean is a place-name found in Joshua 15:38, in a list of locations allotted to the tribe of Judah in the

. The site is unknown, but from the position of the town in the list, it would appear to be somewhere north of

Tel Lachish Lachish (; ; ) was an ancient Canaanite and later Israelite city in the Shephelah ("lowlands of Judea") region of Canaan on the south bank of the Lakhish River mentioned several times in the Hebrew Bible. The current '' tell'' by that name, kn ...

and Eglon."Dilean", in

Dimonah

Dimonah is a place listed in Joshua 15:22 as being inside the territory of Judah along its southern border with

. It may be the same as Dibon."Dimonah", in

Dura

The "plain of Dura" is a location mentioned in Daniel 3:1, as the place where the king of Babylon built an image of himself. The location is uncertain, as there were several places named Dura in the region.

E

Eglaim

Eglaim is a

ite city mentioned by

Isaiah Isaiah ( or ; , ''Yəšaʿyāhū'', "Yahweh is salvation"; also known as Isaias or Esaias from ) was the 8th-century BC Israelite prophet after whom the Book of Isaiah is named. The text of the Book of Isaiah refers to Isaiah as "the prophet" ...

in his proclamation against Moab (

15:8). Its location is unknown.

Elealeh

Elealeh was a Moabite town. Every time it is mentioned in the Bible, Heshbon is mentioned as well."Elealeh", in The

Book of Numbers The Book of Numbers (from Biblical Greek, Greek Ἀριθμοί, ''Arithmoi'', , ''Bəmīḏbar'', ; ) is the fourth book of the Hebrew Bible and the fourth of five books of the Jewish Torah. The book has a long and complex history; its final f ...

assigns Elealeh to the

Thomas Kelly Cheyne Thomas Kelly Cheyne, (18 September 18411915) was an England, English Anglicanism#Anglican divines, divine and biblical criticism, biblical critic. Biography He was born in London and educated at Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood, Merchant Tay ...

believed that where the present Hebrew text of Isaiah 15:8 reads ''Beer Elim'', the original likely read ''b-'' ebrew preposition "in"''Elealeh.'' Today the location of the biblical Elealeh is called '' elʿAl''.

Eleph

Eleph is the name given in Joshua 18:28, apparently for a town in the territory of the

Tribe of Benjamin According to the Torah, the Tribe of Benjamin () was one of the Twelve Tribes of Israel. The tribe was descended from Benjamin, the youngest son of the Patriarchs (Bible), patriarch Jacob (later given the name Israel) and his wife Rachel. In the ...

. Because the name "Eleph" means thousand, and because the form found in Joshua is in Hebrew ''ha-eleph'', literally "the thousand",

believed there was an error in the text, and that ''ha-eleph'' was a copyist's mistake for either Taralah or Irpeel."Eleph", in Another understanding of the word is that it is part of a compound name for a town called ''Zela Haeleph'', instead of "Zela" and "Eleph" being two distinct towns, as in the King James Version. Conder and Kitchener identified

Eleph This is a list of places mentioned in the Bible, which do not have their own Wikipedia articles. See also the list of biblical places for locations which do have their own article. A Abana Abana, according to 2 Kings 5:12, was one of the " rive ...

with

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.Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP III, p
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Elon-beth-hanan

Elon-beth-hanan (sometimes written Elonbethhanan, Elonbeth-hanan, Elon Bethhanan, etc.) is apparently the name of a place recorded in 1 Kings 4:9. 1 Kings 4 asserts that

Solomon Solomon (), also called Jedidiah, was the fourth monarch of the Kingdom of Israel (united monarchy), Kingdom of Israel and Judah, according to the Hebrew Bible. The successor of his father David, he is described as having been the penultimate ...

, king of Israel, divided his kingdom into twelve administrative districts, each with a governor responsible for delivering taxation from the region to the king. The region assigned to a Ben-Deker is recorded as including Makaz, Shaalbim, Beth-shemesh, and Elon-beth-hanan. Instead of ''beth'', some manuscripts read ''ben,'' the Hebrew word for "son of," yielding the reading "Elon son of Hanan.""Elon-beth-hanan", in Instead of "Elon-beth-hanan," the Septuagint reads "and Elon as far as Beth-hanan", a reading endorsed as "probably right" by the ''Encyclopaedia Biblica,'' although the ''Encyclopaedia'' expresses doubt as to whether "Beth-hanan" is correct.

Elon-meonenim

''See Meonenim.''

Eltolad

Eltolad is a location in Canaan mentioned in the

. Joshua 15:30 considers it a part of the territory of Judah in the

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along the southern border with

, but Joshua 19:4 treats it as part of the territory of the

. 1 Chronicles 4:29 refers to it as "Tolad.""Eltolad", in

Enam

Enam, according to Joshu
15:34
was a town in the

of the

. It may be the same location as the Enaim where, in the narrative found in the book of

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, Tamar seduced the patriarch Judah."Enaim", in

En-eglaim

En-eglaim (Eneglaim, En Eglaim) is a location mentioned in a vision of the prophet

Ezekiel Ezekiel, also spelled Ezechiel (; ; ), was an Israelite priest. The Book of Ezekiel, relating his visions and acts, is named after him. The Abrahamic religions acknowledge Ezekiel as a prophet. According to the narrative, Ezekiel prophesied ...

. According to his vision, the Dead Sea (a salty lake in which fish cannot live) would one day be filled with fresh water, and fishers would cast their nets "from Engedi to En-eglaim.""En-eglaim", in According to Thomas Kelly Cheyne (1899), a likely theory would be that the place referred to is near where the

Jordan River The Jordan River or River Jordan (, ''Nahr al-ʾUrdunn''; , ''Nəhar hayYardēn''), also known as ''Nahr Al-Sharieat'' (), is a endorheic river in the Levant that flows roughly north to south through the Sea of Galilee and drains to the Dead ...

empties into the Dead Sea, resulting in the freshwater fish washed into the Dead Sea dying of the excessive salt content and washing up dead on the beach. Cheyne suggested ''Ain Hajleh'' (Ain Hajlah) as a possible location, thinking that the Hebrew ''Eglaim'' might be a later version in a text which originally read "Hoglah," as in the place-name "Beth-hoglah." At present the exact location is still unidentified, though proposals include Ain Hajlah, Ain Feshka, or Eglaim.

En-gannim

En-gannim is the name of two towns mentioned in the

Hebrew Bible The Hebrew Bible or Tanakh (;"Tanach"
. '' "En-gannim", in *A town in the

of Judah, according to Joshua 15:34. *A town in the territory of the

, according to Joshua 19:21. See also Anem.

En-haddah

En-haddah is a town mentioned only once in the Bible, in Joshua 19:21, where it is assigned to the territory of the

. Due to its placement in a list of towns, it would appear to be close to En-gannim, which immediately precedes it.S. A. Cook, "En-haddah", in

En-hakkore

En-hakkore is the name of a fountain, mentioned only in Judges 15:18-19. In the biblical narrative,

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the Israelite hero is thirsty, and calls (''kara'') to God in fear that he will die of thirst. In response, God causes a spring to miraculously appear. Samson memorializes the incident by naming the spring ''En Hakkore,'' Hebrew for "spring of the caller." According to ''Encyclopaedia Biblica,'' the original etymology of ''En-hakkore'' is "spring of the partridge," while the meaning "spring of the caller" is a later legendary invention."En-hakkore", in

Ephratha

Ephrath Ephrath or Ephrathah or Ephratah () is a biblically referenced former name of Bethlehem, meaning "fruitful". It is also a personal name. Biblical place A very old tradition holds that Ephrath refers to Bethlehem, as the first mention of Ephrath o ...

a (

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); from the

version of the

Esek

Esek is the name of the first of two wells which, according to

, were the object of an argument between

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and herdsmen from the

Philistine Philistines (; Septuagint, LXX: ; ) were ancient people who lived on the south coast of Canaan during the Iron Age in a confederation of city-states generally referred to as Philistia. There is compelling evidence to suggest that the Philist ...

city of

Gerar Gerar ( ''Gərār'', "lodging-place") was a Philistine town and district in what is today south central Israel, mentioned in the Book of Genesis and in the Second Book of Chronicles of the Hebrew Bible. Identification According to the Internati ...

. The Hebrew form of the name as preserved in the

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is ''Esek'', while Greek

manuscripts have the forms ''Adikia'' or ''Sykophantia.''

En-shemesh

En-shemesh, meaning "fountain of the sun", is the name of a place along the border between Judah and the

, between

Ein Rogel Ein Rogel (Hebrew: ''ʿĒn Rōgēl'') is a spring on the outskirts of Jerusalem, mentioned in the Hebrew Bible. It is most commonly identified as what Arabs refer to as Well of Job ( ''Bir Ayoub'') in Silwan, though some scholars dispute this v ...

and Adummim.

Eshan

Eshan (Eshean) is the name of a place in the hill-country of the territory of the

. The location has not been identified.

Esora

Esora is the

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and

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spelling of "Aesora"."Aesora", in See Aesora.

Eth-kazin

Eth-kazin (

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Ittah-kazin) is the name of a place along the border of the territory of the

Tribe of Zebulun According to the Hebrew Bible, the Tribe of Zebulun (alternatively rendered as ''Zabulon, Zabulin, Zabulun, Zebulon''; ) was one of the twelve tribes of Israel. Following the completion of the conquest of Canaan by the Israelite tribes in the Boo ...

, according to Joshua 19:13.

Ezel

Ezel appears to be the name given to a cairn, rock or milestone in a biblical story concerning

David David (; , "beloved one") was a king of ancient Israel and Judah and the third king of the United Monarchy, according to the Hebrew Bible and Old Testament. The Tel Dan stele, an Aramaic-inscribed stone erected by a king of Aram-Dam ...

and Jonathan (1 Samuel 20:19). David, the future king of Israel, is a close friend of Jonathan, the son of then-king Saul. Jonathan warns David that Saul may be seeking to kill him, and instructs David to flee. Jonathan instructs David to wait "at the rock Ezel" until Jonathan can understand Saul's intentions, which he will then signal to David so that David can know whether to flee or stay in Saul's court. According to some biblical critics, the word "Ezel" is not a proper noun in Hebrew, and is either a scribal mistake of some kind or a word which is not understood by biblical scholars.T. K. Cheyne, "Ezel", in The

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refers to it as "yonder stone heap".

G

Galeed

Galeed, according to Genesis 31:47-48, is the name given by

Jacob Jacob, later known as Israel, is a Hebrew patriarch of the Abrahamic religions. He first appears in the Torah, where he is described in the Book of Genesis as a son of Isaac and Rebecca. Accordingly, alongside his older fraternal twin brother E ...

to the place where he and Laban reached a peace agreement. The name is Hebrew for "testimonial mound", and is a reference to the pile of stones erected by Jacob and Laban as a memorial, or "witness", of the agreement between the two relatives. Laban called the stone "Jegar-Sahadutha", the Aramaic equivalent of the Hebrew "Galeed".T. K. Cheyne, "Galeed", in

Gallim

Gallim is a biblical place-name. In the

of the

Hebrew Bible The Hebrew Bible or Tanakh (;"Tanach"
. '' Septuagint The Septuagint ( ), sometimes referred to as the Greek Old Testament or The Translation of the Seventy (), and abbreviated as LXX, is the earliest extant Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible from the original Biblical Hebrew. The full Greek ...

contains two locations by that name. In Isaiah 10:30, the village of Gallim is mentioned alongside Laishah ( Tel Dan) and Anathoth, placing it somewhere north of Jerusalem.T. K. Cheyne, "Gallim", in

Michal Michal (; ; ) was, according to the first Book of Samuel, a princess of the United Kingdom of Israel; the younger daughter of King Saul, she was the first wife of David (), who later became king, first of Judah, then of all Israel, maki ...

in 1 Samuel, best known for being the wife of

, was briefly the wife of

Palti, son of Laish Palti (or Paltiel), son of Laish, who was from Gallim, was the second husband of Michal, Saul's daughter. Where other versions read "Palti" (1 Samuel 25:44) and "Paltiel" (2 Samuel 3:15), the KJV has Phalti and Phaltiel, respectively. Michal was ...

, a man identified as coming from Gallim. An additional Gallim (or Galem) is mentioned in the Septuagint text of 15:59a, which contains additional cities assigned to the tribe of Judah which are not recorded in the Masoretic Text.

Gath-rimmon

Gath-rimmon, the

from Joshua 19:45, Joshua 21:25 and 1 Chronicles 6:69, has been identified by

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with

Tel Gerisa Tel Gerisa () or Tell Jerishe and Tell Jarisha (Arabic), commonly known as Tel Napoleon (), as his army camped on it during the siege of Jaffa, is an archaeological site in Tel Aviv, Israel, on the southern bank of the Yarkon River. The Tel measu ...

Anson Rainey Anson Frank Rainey (January 11, 1930 – February 19, 2011) was professor emeritus of ancient Near Eastern cultures and Semitic linguistics at Tel Aviv University. He is known in particular for contributions to the study of the Amarna tabl ...

supported the notion that it is identical with Gittaim and is to be found at or near

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Gebim

Gebim is a biblical place-name which appears only in Isaiah 10:31,T. K. Cheyne, "Gebim", in in which it is said that "the inhabitants of Gebim gather themselves to flee." The location of Gebim is unknown.

Gederothaim

Gederothaim is a place-name which appears only in Joshua 15:36, in a list of locations possessed by the

in the

."Gederothaim", in Because it appears immediately after the mention of Gederah, some scholars have suggested that "Gederothaim" was introduced by a mistaken copying of the name "Gederah."

Geliloth

Geliloth is a place-name mentioned in Joshua 18:17, where it describes a location along the boundaries of the territory assigned to the

. The name means "stone-circles.""Geliloth", in

Gibbar

Gibbar is a "district of Judah" mentioned in a list of returnees from the

, where the list claims that 95 of the "sons .e. peopleof Gibbar" returned."Gibbar", in

Ginath

''For the possible place-name Ginath, see List of biblical figures § Ginath.''

Gittaim

Gittaim is a place-name which appears several times in the

Hebrew Bible The Hebrew Bible or Tanakh (;"Tanach"
. '' Thomas Kelly Cheyne Thomas Kelly Cheyne, (18 September 18411915) was an England, English Anglicanism#Anglican divines, divine and biblical criticism, biblical critic. Biography He was born in London and educated at Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood, Merchant Tay ...

, "there were probably several Gittaims".T. K. Cheyne, "Gittaim", in *A town called Gittaim in the territory of the

appears in Nehemiah 11:33. *A town called Gittaim is where the Beerothites were accepted as resident aliens according to 2 Samuel 4:3. *Based on readings found in the Greek

, Cheyne suggested that "Gittaim is also probably the name of a town in or near Edom", referred to in Genesis 36:35 and 1 Chronicles 1:46, where the Hebrew text now reads "Avith".

also places "Gath/Gittaim/Gath-rimmon", clearly different from Gath of the

, at or near Ramla. *In the Septuagint, 1 Samuel 14:33 contains a reference to a Gittaim (Greek ''geththaim''), although Cheyne believes the Septuagint's reading here to be a "manifest error".

Gur-baal

Gur-baal is the name of a place mentioned in 2 Chronicles 26:7. According to the Chronicler, it was inhabited by "Arabians", and was the object of a successful attack by

Uzziah Uzziah (; ''‘Uzzīyyāhū'', meaning "my strength is Yah"; ; ), also known as Azariah (; ''‘Azaryā''; ; ), was the tenth king of the ancient Kingdom of Judah, and one of Amaziah's sons. () Uzziah was 16 when he became king of Judah and ...

, the king of Judah.

H

Habor

Habor is the biblical name for the Khabur River, which was in the wilderness of Judah, and mentioned in 2 Kings 17:6, 18:11.

Hachilah

The Hill of Hachilah is a place in the wilderness of Judah.T. K. Cheyne, "Hachilah, Hill of", in It is mentioned in 1 Samuel 23:19, 26:1 as a place where

hid from

Saul Saul (; , ; , ; ) was a monarch of ancient Israel and Judah and, according to the Hebrew Bible and Old Testament, the first king of the United Monarchy, a polity of uncertain historicity. His reign, traditionally placed in the late eleventh c ...

Hadad-Rimmon

See , Rummanah,

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Hadashah

Hadashah (; in LXX ), mentioned only in once in the Bible in the

, was a city in the valley of Judah.T. K. Cheyne, "Hadashah", in Its name means 'new'. It is mentioned among the cities smitten by

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in his lists at the

and the

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as Houdasatha.

Hali

Hali is mentioned only in Joshua 19:25, in a list of cities assigned to the

.S. A. Cook, "Hali", in Stanley Cook believed the name "Hali" may have been a scribal error for " Helbah."

Hammath

Hammath was one of the fortified cities of

Naphtali According to the Book of Genesis, Naphtali (; ) was the sixth son of Jacob, the second of his two sons with Bilhah. He was the founder of the Israelite tribe of Naphtali. Some biblical commentators have suggested that the name ''Naphtali'' ma ...

Hammon

Hammon is the name of two places in the

Hebrew Bible The Hebrew Bible or Tanakh (;"Tanach"
. '' T. K. Cheyne, "Hammon", in The first is along the borders of the

. The second is a

inside the territory of the

, which is probably identical to Hammath and Hammoth-dor (1 Chronicles 6:76), or verse 61 in some Bibles.

Hammoth-dor

Hammoth-dor was a

. See Hammoth-dor.

Hamonah

Hamonah is a city mentioned in

's apocalyptic prophecy, located, according to the text as it now stands, in the " Valley of Hamon-Gog."

expressed doubt as to whether the text originally read "Hamonah," suggesting that scribal error may have obscured a more original reading.T. K. Cheyne, "Hamonah", in

Hapharaim

Hapharaim or Haphraim is a town listed as being part of the territory of the

in the

."Hapharaim", in

Hareth

Hareth or Hereth is a forested area in Judah to which David and his family return after leaving refuge in

, at the direction of the prophet Gad. It is thought to have been somewhere on the border of the

plain, in the southern part of Judah.

Hazar-addar

Hazar-addar is a name which appears only in Numbers 34:4, where it refers to a location on the southern edge of the territory belonging to the

. According to

, the original text of Joshua 15:3 probably contained a reference to the place city.T. K. Cheyne, "Hazar-addar", in

Hazar-enan

Hazar-enan (sometimes spelled Hazar Enan or Hazarenan) is mentioned in Ezekiel 47:17 as a location along the northeastern edge of the land of

Canaan CanaanThe current scholarly edition of the Septuagint, Greek Old Testament spells the word without any accents, cf. Septuaginta : id est Vetus Testamentum graece iuxta LXX interprets. 2. ed. / recogn. et emendavit Robert Hanhart. Stuttgart : D ...

according to Ezekiel's "ideal" borders.W. R. Smith and T. K. Cheyne, "Hazar-enan", in The Aramaic Targum Jonathan ben Uzziel on Numbers 34:9–10 renders its translation as ''ṭirath ʿenawatha'' ("walled suburb of the springs"). According to the ''Encyclopaedia Biblica,'' Ezekiel 47:16 probably originally contained the name "Hazar-enan" where it now contains "Hazar-hatticon".

Hazar-gaddah

Hazar-gaddah is a location listed in Joshua 15:27 as one of the cities along the southern border of Judah with

.T. K. Cheyne, "Hazar-gaddah", in

Hazar-shual

Hazar-shual was a city in the territory of the

, along its border with Judah.T. K. Cheyne, "Hazar-shual", in

Hazar-susah

Hazar-susah, also called Hazar-susim, is among the cities listed in the

as being part of the inheritance of the

.T. K. Cheyne, "Hazar-susah", in It is mentioned only in Joshua 19:5 and 1 Chronicles 4:13.

Hazer-hatticon

Hazer-hatticon is a location that appears on the northern border of the land of

according to Ezekiel's idealized conception its borders."Hazar-hatticon", in According to the ''Encyclopaedia Biblica'', the name is likely a miswritten form of Hazar-enan.

Hazor-hadattah

Hazor-hadattah,

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for "New Hazor," was a place mentioned in Joshua 15:25, on the border between Judah and the

.T. K. Cheyne, "Hazor-hadattah", in

Heleph

Heleph, as the

now stands, appears to be the name of a place located in the territory of the

.T. K. Cheyne, "Heleph", in It appears only in Joshua 19:33. According to

, the verse appears to have undergone copying errors, and the word "Heleph" was probably not an original part of the verse.

Helkath

Helkath () is a location on the boundary of the tribe of Asher.

Helkath-hazzurim

Helkath-hazzurim, a term which appears in 2 Samuel 2:16, is the name of a site where the troops of

fought the troops of

Ish-bosheth Ish-bosheth (, "man of shame"), also called Eshbaal (, ; alternatively spelled Ishbaal, "man of Baal") was, according to the Hebrew Bible, the second monarch of the Kingdom of Israel (united monarchy), Kingdom of Israel. After the death of his fa ...

. The location is described as "Helkath-hazzurim, which is in Gibeon," although Stanley A. Cook suggested that the words "which is in Gibeon" were a later explanatory note added to the text, and that the story may originally have been set in another location.S. A. Cook, "Helkath-hazzurim", in

Hena

Hena is the name of a place or nation mentioned only in a single speech in the

Hebrew Bible The Hebrew Bible or Tanakh (;"Tanach"
. '' Rabshakeh, an official of Sennacharib, who mentioned it in threatening the Judahites in the time of king

Hezekiah Hezekiah (; ), or Ezekias (born , sole ruler ), was the son of Ahaz and the thirteenth king of Kingdom of Judah, Judah according to the Hebrew Bible.Stephen L Harris, Harris, Stephen L., ''Understanding the Bible''. Palo Alto: Mayfield. 1985. "G ...

. The Rabshakeh warned the Israelites that his employer, the

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, would defeat the kingdom of Judah, and that the Israelites should not trust their deity to save them. He supported his argument by pointing to other places conquered by the Assyrians, and pointed out that the gods of those locations had not managed to prevent conquest. "Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah?" The locations of Hena and Ivvah are unknown to the present day. Thomas Kelly Cheyne suggested that the name "Hena" has found its way into the verse "through a scribe's error."T. K. Cheyne, "Hena", in

Hepher

Hepher is a place name found in the

Hebrew Bible The Hebrew Bible or Tanakh (;"Tanach"
. '' Book of Joshua The Book of Joshua is the sixth book in the Hebrew Bible and the Old Testament, and is the first book of the Deuteronomistic history, the story of Israel from the conquest of Canaan to the Babylonian captivity, Babylonian exile. It tells of the ...

, there is a list of 31 kings defeated by the invading Israelites. These kings are unnamed, but referred to simply in terms of what town they ruled, and a "king of Hepher" is listed among them in Joshua 12:17. Later, in the narratives about

, Solomon divides his land into twelve districts, each ruled by a governor in charge of collecting tribute. The district assigned to the Ben-Hesed included "all the land of Hepher." In addition to these explicit references to a place known as Hepher, there are veiled references to Hepher in etiological genealogical passages, in which historical regions and ethnic groupings are described as if descended from a family tree populated by individual forefathers. In these narratives, a "person" named Hepher is described as being a descendant of Manasseh, indicating that Hepher was, at some point, ruled by people identified with the

Tribe of Manasseh According to the Hebrew Bible, the Tribe of Manasseh (; Hebrew: ''Ševet Mənašše,'' Tiberian: ''Šēḇeṭ Mănašše'') was one of the twelve tribes of Israel. After the catastrophic Assyrian invasion of 720 BCE, it is counted as one ...

. The people of Hepher are identified as "Hepherites" in Numbers 26:32. The biblical mentions of Hepher are not enough to locate the town with any precision: it is not even certain whether Hepher is to be found in the Transjordan or in Cisjordan.

Heshmon

Heshmon is the name of a town mentioned in Joshua 15:27, in a list of towns on the border between Judah and

. The name Heshmon may be the basis for the term Hasmonean (Hebrew ''hashmoni''), as the Hasmoneans may have had their origin in Heshmon."Heshmon", in

Holon

Holon (Hilen, Hilez) is the name of two biblical towns. *A city in the hill-country of Judah according to Joshua 15:21 and Joshua 21:15, but its site is unknown. It is also referred to as Hilen or Hilez in 1 Chronicles 6:58 (verse 43 in some Bibles)."Holon", in *A town in

, mentioned in Jeremiah 48:21 at the head of a list of towns to be "judged" by God for Moab's misdeeds.

Horem

Horem was one of the fortified cities of

according to Joshua 19:38. The exact location is unknown.

Hosah

Hosah (), according to , was a city on the border between the

and Tyre.T. K. Cheyne, "Hosah", in Where the

reads "Hosah," an important Greek

manuscript reads "Iaseif," leading to uncertainty about what the original reading was. The location is unknown, but researchers are inclined towards Tell Rashidiyeh or Khirbet el-Hos, today both in

Lebanon Lebanon, officially the Republic of Lebanon, is a country in the Levant region of West Asia. Situated at the crossroads of the Mediterranean Basin and the Arabian Peninsula, it is bordered by Syria to the north and east, Israel to the south ...

, one S of Tyre, the other South-East of it.

Hukkok

Hukkok or Huquq was a town near

Zebulun Zebulun (; also ''Zebulon'', ''Zabulon'', or ''Zaboules'' in ''Antiquities of the Jews'' by Josephus) was, according to the Books of Genesis and Numbers,Genesis 46:14 the last of the six sons of Jacob and Leah (Jacob's tenth son), and the foun ...

, on the border of

. Many commentators have identified it with

Yaquq Yaquq () was a Palestinian people, Palestinian Arab village, which was depopulated during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on May 1, 1948. It was located 12.5 km north of Tiberias and was built at the site of the ancient Jewis ...

Humtah

Humtah was a city of Judah according to Joshua 15:54, whose location has not been identified. Its name in Hebrew means 'snail'.

Hushah

Hushah was a place in the hill country of Judah founded by a son of Ezer (

1 Chronicles The Book of Chronicles ( , "words of the days") is a book in the Hebrew Bible, found as two books (1–2 Chronicles) in the Christian Old Testament. Chronicles is the final book of the Hebrew Bible, concluding the third section of the Jewish Tan ...

4:4). It is generally identified with Husan, south-west of

. One of

David's Mighty Warriors David's Mighty Warriors (also known as David's Mighty Men or the Gibborim; ) are a group of 37 men in the Hebrew Bible who fought with King David and are identified in , part of the "supplementary information" added to the Second Book of Samuel ...

is identified in the Bible as "Sibbecai the Hushathite."

I

Idalah

Idalah is the name of a town in the territory of the

according to Joshua 19:15, the only place in the

Hebrew Bible The Hebrew Bible or Tanakh (;"Tanach"
. '' T. K. Cheyne, "Idalah", in

Ijon

Ijon (; in LXX ) is the name of a place mentioned three times in the

Hebrew Bible The Hebrew Bible or Tanakh (;"Tanach"
. '' Abel-beth-maacah (Kings account, Chronicles reads "Abel-maim"), it is conquered by

Ben-Hadad I Ben-Hadad I (), son of Tabrimmon and grandson of Hezion, was king of Aram-Damascus between 885 BCE and 865 BCE. Ben-Hadad I was reportedly a contemporary of kings Baasha of the Kingdom of Israel and Asa of the Kingdom of Judah. According to ...

of Aram during the time of Baasha of Israel (c.900 to c.877 BCE). In 2 Kings 15:29, Ijon along with Abel-beth-maacah and several other places are taken captive by Tiglath-Pileser III (reigned 745-727 BCE) during the reign of Pekah. It was slightly north of the modern-day site of Metula. Budge and Paton equate Ijon with the hieroglyphic place name 'Aiina. Ijon is commonly identified with Tel Dibbine, a tell near

Marjayoun Marjayoun or Jdeidet Marjayoun (: Lebanese pronunciation ), also Marj 'Ayoun, Marjuyun or Marjeyoun (lit. "meadow of springs") which reflects the area's lush landscape and abundant water resources and Jdeideh / Jdeida / Jdeidet Marjeyoun, is a m ...

, Lebanon.

Iphtah

Iphtah (the

spells it Jiphtah) was, according to Joshua 15:43, a place in the

of the

. The location is unknown today.

Iphtah-el

Iphtah-el (the

spells it Jiphtah-el) is the name of a place mentioned only in Joshua 19:14 and 19:27.T. K. Cheyne, "Jiphtah-el", in

Joshua Joshua ( ), also known as Yehoshua ( ''Yəhōšuaʿ'', Tiberian Hebrew, Tiberian: ''Yŏhōšuaʿ,'' Literal translation, lit. 'Yahweh is salvation'), Jehoshua, or Josue, functioned as Moses' assistant in the books of Book of Exodus, Exodus and ...

describes it as being along the northern border of the

, in the area adjoining the territory of the

. The biblical Iphtah-el is probably the place known today as Khirbet Japhet.

Irpeel

Irpeel is the name of a town mentioned only in Joshua 18:27, in the territory of the

.T. K. Cheyne, "Irpeel", in

Ithlah

Ithlah (

Jethlah) is a location which, according to Joshua 19:42, was part of the territory of the

Tribe of Dan The Tribe of Dan (, "Judge") was one of the twelve tribes of Israel, according to the Torah. According to the Hebrew Bible, the tribe initially settled in the hill lands bordering Tribe of Ephraim, Ephraim and Tribe of Benjamin, Benjamin on the ...

. The location has not been identified by modern scholarship.

Ittah-kazin

''See Eth-kazin.''

J

Jabneel

Jabneel (once Jabneh) is the name given in the

Hebrew Bible The Hebrew Bible or Tanakh (;"Tanach"
. '' Tribe of Judah According to the Hebrew Bible, the tribe of Judah (, ''Shevet Yehudah'') was one of the twelve Tribes of Israel, named after Judah (son of Jacob), Judah, the son of Jacob. Judah was one of the tribes to take its place in Canaan, occupying it ...

.T. K. Cheyne, "Jabneel", in In 2 Chronicles 26:6, where the name is shortened to "Jabneh," it is recorded that

, as part of his attacks on Philistine cities, broke down its wall. *The second is assigned by Joshua 19:33 to the territory of the

Jahaz

Jahaz (or Jahaza, Jahazah, Jahzah. Iahaz) was the site of the battle between King Sihon and the advancing Israelite people, according to Numbers 21:23 and later became a

levitical city In the Hebrew Bible, the Levitical cities were 48 cities in ancient Israel set aside for the tribe of Levi, who were not allocated their own territorial land when the Israelites entered the Promised Land. Numbers 35:1-8 relates God's command t ...

in the territory of

, east of the

River Jordan The Jordan River or River Jordan (, ''Nahr al-ʾUrdunn''; , ''Nəhar hayYardēn''), also known as ''Nahr Al-Sharieat'' (), is a endorheic basin, endorheic river in the Levant that flows roughly north to south through the Sea of Galilee and d ...

. Jahaz is mentioned in both the Hebrew Testament (Yahats, Isaiah 16:4, Jeremiah 48:34; Yahatsah or Yahtsah, Numbers 21:23, Deuteronomy 2:32, Joshua 13:18, Joshua 21:36) and the King James Version ("Jahazah": Judges 11:20, Jeremiah 48:21, 1 Chronicles 6:78 "Jahzah") and in the

Mesha Stele The Mesha Stele, also known as the Moabite Stone, is a stele dated around 840 BCE containing a significant Canaanite and Aramaic inscriptions, Canaanite inscription in the name of King Mesha of Moab (a kingdom located in modern Jordan). Mesha tel ...

André Lemaire André Lemaire (born 1942) is a French epigrapher, historian and philologist. He is Director of Studies at the École pratique des hautes études, where he teaches Hebraic and Aramean philology and epigraphy. He specializes in West-Semitic ol ...

places it somewhere along the northeast border of

Janim

Janim or Janum is a location mentioned only in Joshua 15:53, which places it in the hill-country of Judah, somewhere near Beth-tappuah."Janum", in

Jearim

Mount Jearim is mentioned in Joshua 15:10, a verse which described the northern border of the

."Jearim, Mount", in According to the ''Encyclopaedia Biblica'' the term described in this case not a mountain in the modern sense of the word, but a ridge, and "Jearim" is probably an incorrect reading where "Jarib" or "Ephron" was originally intended.

Jegar-sahadutha

''See Galeed.''

Jeruel

The "wilderness of Jeruel" is the place where, according to 2 Chronicles 20:16, Jahaziel told Jehoshaphat to expect an invading army of Moabites, Ammonites, and Edomites.

Jethlah

''See Ithlah.''

Jiphtah

''See Iphtah.''

Jiphtah-el

''See Iphtah-el.''

Jogbehah

Jogbehah is a city east of the Jordan River, mentioned in Numbers 32:35, as one of the locations in the Transjordan granted to the

Tribe of Gad According to the Bible, the Tribe of Gad () was one of the Twelve Tribes of Israel who, after the Exodus from Egypt, settled on the eastern side of the Jordan River. It is one of the ten lost tribes. Biblical narrative After the conquest of ...

by Moses. It reappears in the story of

. It was probably an Ammonite fortress, now named Rugm al-Gubekha.

Jokdeam

Jokdeam is the name of a location mentioned only once in the Bible, in Joshua 15:56.T. K. Cheyne, "Jokdeam", in The passage identifies it as being in the hill-country of Judah, but beyond that its location is unknown today.

K

Kamon

See Camon

Kasiphia

See Casiphia

Kirjathjearim

See Kiriath-Jearim

Kithlish

Kithlish is a man's wall and town in the plain of Judah (). It has been identified with Jelameh.

L

Laharoi

''See Beer-lahai-roi.''

Lebaoth

''See Beth Lebaoth.''

Lecah

Lecah or Lekah is a place mentioned in 1 Chronicles 4:21, which claims that Er, the son of

Judah (son of Jacob) Judah () was, according to the Book of Genesis, the fourth of the six sons of Jacob and Leah and the founder of the Tribe of Judah of the Israelites. By extension, he is indirectly the eponym of the Kingdom of Judah, the land of Judea, and the w ...

settled there.

Luhith

The "ascent of Luhith" is a location in

mentioned in Isaiah 15:5 and Jeremiah 48:5.

M

Mahaneh Dan

Mahaneh Dan or Mahaneh-dan is a location associated with the

tribe of Dan The Tribe of Dan (, "Judge") was one of the twelve tribes of Israel, according to the Torah. According to the Hebrew Bible, the tribe initially settled in the hill lands bordering Tribe of Ephraim, Ephraim and Tribe of Benjamin, Benjamin on the ...

. According to Judges 18:12, it was located to the west of Kirjath-jearim.S. A. Cook, "Mahaneh-dan", in On the other hand, Judges 13:25 names it as the place where

lived and where "the spirit of the LORD began to stir in him", but gives it a different location, "between Zorah and Eshtaol".

Makaz

Makaz is a location mentioned in 1 Kings 4:9, in a passage which describes king

administering the kingdom of Israel by division into twelve districts. Makaz appears in a list of cities the rest of which belonged to the territory traditionally assigned to the

, so it appears likely that Makaz was originally intended as a reference to some location in Dan.T. K. Cheyne, "Makaz", in

Makkedah

Makkedah (; in LXX ; in

Vulgate The Vulgate () is a late-4th-century Bible translations into Latin, Latin translation of the Bible. It is largely the work of Saint Jerome who, in 382, had been commissioned by Pope Damasus I to revise the Gospels used by the Diocese of ...

) was a city in the land of

. Joshua 12:16 gives a list of thirty-one cities whose kings, according to the

, were defeated in the conquest of Canaan following

the Exodus The Exodus (Hebrew language, Hebrew: יציאת מצרים, ''Yəṣīʾat Mīṣrayīm'': ) is the Origin myth#Founding myth, founding myth of the Israelites whose narrative is spread over four of the five books of the Torah, Pentateuch (specif ...

, and Makkedah is included. Joshua 15:41 locates it in the part of the

assigned to the

. Joshua 10 relates a story of five "

" kings hiding in the "cave of Makkedah" after a battle; afterward, they were removed from the cave and killed in a humiliating fashion. After this, Makkedah was captured.T. K. Cheyne, "Makkedah", in

and Budge identify Makouta mentioned in the

at the

with biblical Makkeda.

Historical geographers Historical geography is the branch of geography that studies the ways in which geographic phenomena have changed over time. In its modern form, it is a synthesizing discipline which shares both topical and methodological similarities with histor ...

have struggled with its modern identification, with PEF surveyors Conder & Kitchener thinking the ancient site to be where was once built the Arab village of el-Mughar, north of

Nahal Sorek Naḥal Sorek (; ), also Soreq, is one of the largest, most important drainage basins in the Judean Hills. It is mentioned in the Book of Judges 16:4 of the Bible as the border between the ancient Philistines and the Tribe of Dan of the ancient ...

Manocho

Manocho appears in the

version of the

Maon

''This entry is about the location known as Maon or the "Wilderness of Maon". For the ethnic group known by that name, see List of minor biblical tribes § Maon''. Maon, according to Joshua 15:55, was a place in the highlands of the

identified in modern times with Khirbet Maʿin (or in Hebrew, Horvat Maʿon).Jodi Magness
''The Archaeology of the Early Islamic Settlement in Palestine''
Eisenbrauns, 2003 Vol.1 pp.96–97 According to 1 Samuel 23:24, the Wilderness of Maon, in the plain on the south of Jeshimon, was one of the places where

hid from

King Saul Saul (; , ; , ; ) was a monarch of ancient Israel and Judah and, according to the Hebrew Bible and Old Testament, the first king of the United Monarchy, a polity of uncertain historicity. His reign, traditionally placed in the late elevent ...

.T. K. Cheyne, "Maon", in Nabal, the rich but callous property owner who refused to support David's men in 1 Samuel 25:1-11 was from Maon. In the

version of

1 Samuel The Book of Samuel () is a book in the Hebrew Bible, found as two books (1–2 Samuel) in the Old Testament. The book is part of the Deuteronomistic history, a series of books (Joshua, Judges, Samuel, and Kings) that constitute a theological ...

, David retreated to the Wilderness of Maon after the death of

, but in the Massoretic Text he went to the Wilderness of Paran. Through the use of genealogy, Maon was personified as a descendant of Hebron. There was an

Arab Arabs (, , ; , , ) are an ethnic group mainly inhabiting the Arab world in West Asia and North Africa. A significant Arab diaspora is present in various parts of the world. Arabs have been in the Fertile Crescent for thousands of years ...

village and there is now an

at Ma'on, Har Hebron in the

Maralah

Maralah is a place mentioned only in Joshua 19:11, where it describes a locality in the territory of the

, along its southwestern border.T. K. Cheyne, "Maralah", in

Masrekah

Masrekah, according to Genesis 36:36 and 1 Chronicles 1:47, is where the Edomite king Samlah lived.

Meah

Meah is the name of a tower named in Nehemiah 3:1 and 12:39.

Mejarcon

Mejarcon (also spelled Mejarkon or Me-jarkon) was a location on the border of the

Meonenim

Meonenim appears in Judges 9:37, in the Hebrew phrase ''elon meonenim'' which is variously translated as "plain of Meonenim," "Elon-meonenim," "oak of Meonenim," or "the Diviners' Oak."T. K. Cheyne, "Meonenim", in

Mephaath

Mephaath was a

of the

Merarites The Merarites were one of the four main divisions among the Levites in Biblical times. The Bible claims that the Merarites were all descended from the eponymous Merari, a son of Levi, although some biblical scholars regard this as a postdictional ...

lying in the district of the Mishor in the territory of the

tribe of Reuben According to the Hebrew Bible, the Tribe of Reuben () was one of the twelve tribes of Israel. Unlike the majority of the tribes, the land of Reuben, along with that of Tribe of Gad, Gad and half of Manasseh (tribal patriarch), Manasseh, was on ...

according to Joshua 21:37, and was mentioned in condemnation by the prophet

Jeremiah Jeremiah ( – ), also called Jeremias, was one of the major prophets of the Hebrew Bible. According to Jewish tradition, Jeremiah authored the Book of Jeremiah, book that bears his name, the Books of Kings, and the Book of Lamentations, with t ...

in Jeremiah 48:21.

Michmethath

Michmethath (Michmethah, Mikmethath, Micmethath) is the name of a place mentioned in Joshua 16:6 and 17:7. 16:6 records that it is along the north end of the territory of the

Tribe of Ephraim According to the Hebrew Bible, the Tribe of Ephraim (, ''ʾEp̄rayim,'' in Pausa, pausa: , ''ʾEp̄rāyim'') was one of the Twelve Tribes of Israel. The Tribe of Manasseh, together with Ephraim, formed the Tribe of Joseph. It is one of the Ten L ...

. 17:7 indicates that it was along the south end of the territory of the

. From the biblical description it would appear to have been southeast of Shechem. Blessed

places an As r-Michmethah (Joshua 16:6) at modern

Middin

The town of Middin is mentioned in passing in Joshua 15:61, in a list of six towns in the wilderness of the territory of the

tribe of Judah According to the Hebrew Bible, the tribe of Judah (, ''Shevet Yehudah'') was one of the twelve Tribes of Israel, named after Judah (son of Jacob), Judah, the son of Jacob. Judah was one of the tribes to take its place in Canaan, occupying it ...

. Its exact location is unknown.

Migron

There is a place called Migron on the outskirts of

mentioned in 1 Samuel 14:2, where

was based, different from the Migron mentioned in Isaiah 10:28, which is north of Michmash.

Minni

Minni is mentioned in Jeremiah 51:27 as the name of a province in

Armenia Armenia, officially the Republic of Armenia, is a landlocked country in the Armenian Highlands of West Asia. It is a part of the Caucasus region and is bordered by Turkey to the west, Georgia (country), Georgia to the north and Azerbaijan to ...

, which was at this time under the Median kings. Armenia is regarded by some as Har-minni i.e., the mountainous country of Minni.

Minnith

Minnith is mentioned in Judges 11:33 as marking the extent of

Jephthah Jephthah (pronounced ; , ''Yiftāḥ'') appears in the Book of Judges as a judge who presided over Israel for a period of six years (). According to Judges, he lived in Gilead. His father's name is also given as Gilead, and, as his mother is de ...

's victory over the

Ammon Ammon (; Ammonite language, Ammonite: 𐤏𐤌𐤍 ''ʻAmān''; '; ) was an ancient Semitic languages, Semitic-speaking kingdom occupying the east of the Jordan River, between the torrent valleys of Wadi Mujib, Arnon and Jabbok, in present-d ...

ites and in Ezekiel 27:17 as a wheat-farming city. Minnith, Missouri takes its name from the reference in

Misrephoth-maim

Misrephoth-maim is the name of a place associated with

Sidon Sidon ( ) or better known as Saida ( ; ) is the third-largest city in Lebanon. It is located on the Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean coast in the South Governorate, Lebanon, South Governorate, of which it is the capital. Tyre, Lebanon, Tyre, t ...

where, according to the

pursued the retreating Canaanites after a battle at Merom.T. K. Cheyne, "Misrephoth-maim", in According to Joshua 13:6 it is found near the boundary between the northern territory of the

Tribes of Israel The Twelve Tribes of Israel ( , ) are described in the Hebrew Bible as being the descendants of Jacob, a Hebrew patriarch who was a son of Isaac and thereby a grandson of Abraham. Jacob, later known as Israel, had a total of twelve sons, from ...

and the Sidonians.

Mount Jearim

''See Jearim.''

N

Neah

Neah is a location mentioned only in Joshua 19:13."Neah", in The

places it in the territory of the

, near the valley of Iphtah-el.

Neballat

Neballat is the name of a town listed among the towns where people of the

lived according to Nehemiah 11:34."Neballat", in Today it is known as Beit Nebala.

Nibshan

Nibshan is the name of a town in the wilderness of Judah, mentioned only in Judges 15:62.

No

No or No-amon is the name of a city in Egypt mentioned in negative terms by the prophets Jeremiah (46:25), Ezekiel (30:14-16), and Nahum (3:8). It is most commonly identified in modern scholarship with Thebes, but in the Septuagint, Vulgate, and a variety of rabbinical commentators it is interpreted as

Alexandria Alexandria ( ; ) is the List of cities and towns in Egypt#Largest cities, second largest city in Egypt and the List of coastal settlements of the Mediterranean Sea, largest city on the Mediterranean coast. It lies at the western edge of the Nile ...

P

Parbar

Parbar, according to the King James Version, is a place-name mentioned in 1 Chronicles 26:18, in a description of the divisions of gatekeepers for the Temple in Jerusalem. However, in more recent scholarship, the word ''parbar'' or ''parwar'' is generally taken not as a

proper noun A proper noun is a noun that identifies a single entity and is used to refer to that entity ('' Africa''; ''Jupiter''; '' Sarah''; ''Walmart'') as distinguished from a common noun, which is a noun that refers to a class of entities (''continent, ...

, but as a

common noun In grammar, a noun is a word that represents a concrete or abstract thing, like living creatures, places, actions, qualities, states of existence, and ideas. A noun may serve as an object or subject within a phrase, clause, or sentence.Example n ...

, with various proposals as to its meaning. Canadian academic Donna Runnalls suggests that "it seems to refer to a structure which was located at the top of the road on the west side of the temple". The New Revised Standard Version translates the word as " the colonnade on the west".

Perez Uzzah

Perez Uzzah (Hebrew, "outburst against Uzzah") is a place name which appears only in the biblical narrative about

Uzzah According to the Tanakh, עזה, Uzzah or Uzza, meaning "Her Strength", was an Israelite whose death is associated with touching the Ark of the Covenant. The account of Uzzah appears in two places in scripture: 2 Samuel 6:3-8 and 1 Chronicles ...

, a man who was killed by God for touching the

Ark of the Covenant The Ark of the Covenant, also known as the Ark of the Testimony or the Ark of God, was a religious storage chest and relic held to be the most sacred object by the Israelites. Religious tradition describes it as a wooden storage chest decorat ...

(2 Samuel 6:8; 1 Chronicles 13:11).

named it in commemoration of Uzzah's death. The location has not been identified.

Phagor

Phagor () appears in the

version of the

, in a grouping of 11 cities of Judah not listed in the Hebrew text. It is rendered as "Peor" in the

Contemporary English Version The Contemporary English Version or CEV (also known as Bible for Today's Family) is a translation of the Bible into English, published by the American Bible Society. An anglicized version was produced by the British and Foreign Bible Society, ...

(1995).

Pul

Pul, a place name in in Hebrew, may refer to Put or Phut.

R

Rabbith

Rabbith, according to Joshua 19:20, was a location within the territory of the

Racal

Racal (or Rachal or Rakal), according to 1 Samuel 30:29, was one of the locations were

sent plunder after defeating a group of

Amalek Amalek (; ) is described in the Hebrew Bible as the enemy of the nation of the Israelites. The name "Amalek" can refer to the descendants of Amalek, the grandson of Esau, or anyone who lived in their territories in Canaan, or North African descend ...

ites. The site is unknown and mentioned nowhere else. It may have been a copyist's error for Carmel.

Rakkath

Rakkath (also Rakat or Rakkat) is mentioned in Joshua 19:35 as a fenced or fortified city in the territory of the

and is considered according to Jewish tradition to be the location where the city of

Tiberias Tiberias ( ; , ; ) is a city on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee in northern Israel. A major Jewish center during Late Antiquity, it has been considered since the 16th century one of Judaism's Four Holy Cities, along with Jerusalem, Heb ...

was built from around 20 CE. It is identified by some with Tel Rakat (Khirbet el Kaneitriyeh on

PEF Survey of Palestine The PEF Survey of Palestine was a series of surveys carried out by the Palestine Exploration Fund (PEF) between 1872 and 1877 for the completed Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) and in 1880 for the soon abandoned Survey of Eastern Palestine. The ...

map).

Rakkon

Rakkon, according to the

of Judges 19:46, is a place-name for a locality along the borders of the

. A common opinion is that the place-name Rakkon (Hebrew ''hrqwn'') originally through a mis-copying of part of the previous place-name Me Jarkon (Hebrew ''my hyrqwn''), which is mentioned immediately preceding it. If it is a genuine place-name, its location is uncertain, and it is unclear whether it refers to a town or a river. The

omits it altogether.

Ramath-Mizpeh

Ramath-Mizpeh, according to Joshua 13:26, was a location in the territory of the

, a Transjordanian tribe. It is possibly the same as present-day Iraq al-Amir.

Rammath-Lehi

Rammath-Lehi'', according to the Old Testament Book of Judges, was the name given to this place by Samson when he defeated a thousand Philistines.

Ramat-Negev

A place named Ramat-Negev (Hebrew ''rmt ngb'') is assigned to the

by Joshua 19:8. It is likely the same as location as the Ramot-Negev (''rmwt ngb'') in 1 Samuel 30:27, where it is named as a location to which David sent plunder from his raid against the

ites. Ramat or Ramot Negev is also mentioned in one of the Arad

ostraca An ostracon (Greek language, Greek: ''ostrakon'', plural ''ostraka'') is a piece of pottery, usually broken off from a vase or other earthenware vessel. In an archaeology, archaeological or epigraphy, epigraphical context, ''ostraca'' refer ...

, a series of letters recovered from

Tel Arad Tel Arad () or Tell 'Arad () is an archaeological site consisting of a lower section and a Tell (archaeology), tell or mound, located west of the Dead Sea, about west of the Israeli city of Arad, Israel, Arad in an area surrounded by mountain r ...

, ordering that soldiers be sent to Ramat-Negev as protection against

ite invasion. It is possible that Ramot-Negev is the place now known as Hurvath Uza. See also

Baalath-Beer A town named Baalath-Beer is mentioned in the Masoretic Text of Joshua 19:8, which places near the end of a list of towns belonging to the Tribe of Simeon (19:1-9). Where the Masoretic Text reads "Baalath-beer Ramath-negeb", one version of the Septu ...

Rekem

''This is about the city. For individuals of the same name, see List of minor biblical figures § Rekem.'' Rekem is the name of a city or fortified town in the territory of the

according to Joshua 18:27. The location is unknown.

Rock of Escape

''See Sela Hammahlekoth.''

Rogelim

Rogelim is a place mentioned twice in 2 Samuel, both times in relation to Barzillai the Gileadite. It is identified as his city (17:27) and the place from which he came to meet King

after the revolt of

Absalom Absalom ( , ), according to the Hebrew Bible, was an Israelite prince. Born to David and Maacah, who was from Geshur, he was the only full sibling of Tamar. He is described in the Hebrew Bible as being exceptionally beautiful, as is his siste ...

(19:31). Its location was in

Gilead Gilead or Gilad (, ; ''Gilʿāḏ'', , ''Jalʻād'') is the ancient, historic, biblical name of the mountainous northern part of the region of Transjordan.''Easton's Bible Dictionary'Galeed''/ref> The region is bounded in the west by the J ...

but has not been precisely identified. Strong's Concordance calls is "a (place of) fullers.

Rumah

Rumah or Ruma is a place-name in the Hebrew Bible. It is mentioned in 2 Kings 23:26, which identifies king

Jehoiakim Jehoiakim, also sometimes spelled Jehoikim was the eighteenth and antepenultimate King of Judah from 609 to 598 BC. He was the second son of King Josiah () and Zebidah, the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah. His birth name was Eliakim. Background Af ...

's mother as "Zebudah, the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah." A widespread, but not unanimous, identification sees this as the modern site of Ruma (Tell Rumeh) in the Lower Galilee. Joshua 15:52 lists a "Rumah" or "Dumah" (depending on the manuscript followed) as a city in the hill-country of Judah. This is often associated with the modern village of Dūme, although scholars have expressed some uncertainty about this location as well.

S

Salim

A place-name Salim appears in John 3:23, in the phrase "Aenon of Salim." The location has not been identified, though several possibilities have been suggested.

Sansannah

Sansannah appears in Joshua 15:31, in a list of towns in the Negev of Judah. Scholars equate it with the modern Kirbet esh-Shamsaniyat, although with some doubt. In Joshua 19, a portion of the territory of Judah is assigned to the

, and in this list instead of Sansannah the text reads "Hazar Susah" (verse 5).

Sebam

''See Sibmah.''

Secu

Secu (also Seku, Sechu) is a place-name found in 1 Samuel 19:22. Its site has not been identified, and it is mentioned nowhere else in the Bible.

Sela Hammahlekoth

Sela Hammahlekoth (or Rock of Escape) is the name which according to 1 Samuel 23:28 was given to a location where

narrowly escaped being killed by

. The location has not been definitely identified, but the biblical story places it in the Wilderness of Maon.

Seneh

Seneh is the name of one of two rocky cliffs (the other being Bozez) through which Jonathan had to pass during his attack against a Philistine garrison (1 Samuel 14:4).

Shaalbim

Shaalbim is the name of a location which appears twice (in the form "Shaalbim") in the Hebrew Bible, in Judges 3:5 and again in 1 Kings 4:9. The passage in Judges 1 discusses the situation after the death of

, in which the

had difficulty expelling the

Amorites The Amorites () were an ancient Northwest Semitic languages, Northwest Semitic-speaking Bronze Age people from the Levant. Initially appearing in Sumerian records c. 2500 BC, they expanded and ruled most of the Levant, Mesopotamia and parts of Eg ...

from the land allotted to them, and the Amorites forced the Danites to live in the hill-country, keeping the valley for themselves (Judges 1:1-34). "But the Amorites were resolved to dwell in Harheres, in Aijalon, and in Shaalbim; yet the hand of the house of Joseph prevailed, so that they became tributary. And the border of the Amorites was from the ascent of Akrabbim, from Sela, and upward." 1 Kings 4 records that

divided his kingdom into districts under various governors, and chose a man named Ben Deker as governor "in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and Beth-shemesh, and Elon-beth-hanan". In Joshua 19:42, a Shaalabbin is listed as a location within the territory allotted to Dan, and it is thus likely to be the same as the location "Shaalbim" which Dan was unable to occupy. This is generally considered to have been located on the site of modern Salbit.Eric. F. Mason, "Shaalbim", in It may also be the same as the location referred to as "Shaalban" (2 Samuel 23:32; 1 Chronicles 11:33), and may have been the "Shaalim" of 1 Samuel 9:4.

Shaalim

Saul and his assistant passed through the land of Shaalim looking for his father's lost donkeys, according to 1 Samuel 9:4, probably in the highlands of Ephraim. Some manuscripts of the

locate the burial place of Abdon in Pirathon, in the hill country of Ephraim, in the land of Shaalim, although other versions read "in the hill country of the Amalekites".

Shamir

''This is about the biblical locations, not the person mentioned in 1 Chronicles 24:24.'' Shamir is the name of a biblical place which according to Joshua 15:48 was found in the hill-country of the

. According to Judges 10:1-2, the Israelite leader Tola lived, died, and was buried in a location called Shamir in the hill-country of the

Shaveh Kiriathaim

According to Genesis 14:5, Chedorlaomer defeated the Emim at Shaveh Kiriathaim.

Shaveh, Valley of

A valley named Shaveh (king's valley) is the location where, according to Genesis 14:17, the king of Sodom went to meet Abram after the defeat of the forces of Chedorlaomer.

Sibmah

Sibmah (Hebrew, ''Sibmah'') is a location which according to Numbers 32:37-38 and Joshua 13:19 was in the territory of the Tribe of Reuben. In the

it is sometimes spelled Shibmah. Isaiah 16:7-8 refers to it as a Moabite city, as does Jeremiah 48:31-32. In one case it is called Sebam (Hebrew ''Sebam''), spelled Shebam in the

(Numbers 32:3). Its specific location is not known.

Stone of Bohan, son of Reuben

The stone of Bohan, son of

is mentioned in Joshua 15:6 as a point along the boundary of the land allocated to the

. Bohan is not named as one of Reuben's sons where they are listed in Genesis 46:9. Bohan is a name which appears twice in the

Hebrew Bible The Hebrew Bible or Tanakh (;"Tanach"
. '' Judah and the

."Bohan", in

Suphah

Suphah is mentioned in Numbers 21:14, quoting the lost

Book of the Wars of the Lord The Book of the Wars of the LORD () is one of several non-canonical books referenced in the Bible which have now been completely lost. It is mentioned in Numbers 21:13–14, which reads: David Rosenberg suggests in ''The Book of David'' that ...

, and is possibly the same as Suph.

T

Tappuah

Tappuah, Hebrew for 'apple', and compounds thereof, are

toponyms Toponymy, toponymics, or toponomastics is the study of '' toponyms'' (proper names of places, also known as place names and geographic names), including their origins, meanings, usage, and types. ''Toponym'' is the general term for a proper nam ...

from the

: *Beth-Tappuah, city in the hill country of Judah (), commonly identified with Taffuh, a Palestinian town in the West Bank, 4 miles west of Hebron. *Tappuah, city in the lowland of Judah () *Tappuah, capital of a Canaanite king defeated by Joshua. It was allotted to the powerful

tribe of Ephraim According to the Hebrew Bible, the Tribe of Ephraim (, ''ʾEp̄rayim,'' in Pausa, pausa: , ''ʾEp̄rāyim'') was one of the Twelve Tribes of Israel. The Tribe of Manasseh, together with Ephraim, formed the Tribe of Joseph. It is one of the Ten L ...

, who first needed to capture the city. It stood in the eastern parts of its realm and on the border with Manasseh, who received the lands around it (). It is usually identified with Tell esh-Sheikh Abu Zarad, 8 miles (13 km) south of

and in the vicinity of modern Yasuf (identified with the Yashub of LXX and possibly of the

Samaria Ostraca The Samaria Ostraca are 102 ostraca found in 1910 in excavations in ancient Samaria (modern-day Sebastia, Nablus) led by George Andrew Reisner of the Harvard Semitic Museum. These ostraca were found in the treasury of the palace of Ahab, king of ...

). "Tappuah"
in ''

Encyclopaedia Judaica The ''Encyclopaedia Judaica'' is a multi-volume English-language encyclopedia of the Jewish people, Judaism, and Israel. It covers diverse areas of the Jewish world and civilization, including Jewish history of all eras, culture, Jewish holida ...

'', The Gale Group, 2007 edition. Referencing F.M. Abel (1936), '' RB'' 45, pp. 103ff. Via

Jewish Virtual Library The Jewish Virtual Library (JVL, formerly known as JSOURCE) is an online encyclopedia published by the American foreign policy analyst Mitchell Bard's non-profit organization American–Israeli Cooperative Enterprise (AICE). It is a website cove ...

. Accessed 21 Feb 2024. Pottery found at Sheikh Abu Zarad was dated to the Late Bronze and Iron Ages.

sees En-tappuah from (see below) as being an alternative name for the city. A by now discarded identification with the site fortified by Bacchides was based on a misreading of

( Ant., 13:15 / Whisto
Book 13, Ch 1:3
): Bacchides fortified Theko ( Tekoa), not Tepho (Tappuah). *En-tappuah ('Tappuah Spring'), in the eastern parts of

on the border with Ephraim (); identified with the 'Ayn al-Tuffūḥ spring near the village of Yasuf. Considered to be an alternative name for the city of Tappuah in Efraim. *

Tiphsah Thapsacus (; ''Tipsah'') was an ancient town along the western bank of the Euphrates river that would now lie in modern Syria. Thapsacus was the Greek and Roman name for the town. The town was important and prosperous due to its river crossing, whi ...

, city captured by King Mehahem. In the Greek version though, the city is named as Tappuah, which would then be the one in Ephraim (see above).

Tatam

Tatam appears in the

version of

15:59-60.

Theco

Theco appears in the

version of

15:59-60.

Thether

Thether appears in the

version of

15:59-60.

Thobes

Thobes appears in the

version of

15:59-60.

U

Uzzen-sherah

Uzzen-sherah (or Uzzen-sheerah) is the name of a town mentioned only in 1 Chronicles 7:24. It was named for its builder, Sherah, daughter of

Ephraim Ephraim (; , in pausa: ''ʾEp̄rāyīm'') was, according to the Book of Genesis, the second son of Joseph ben Jacob and Asenath, as well as the adopted son of his biological grandfather Jacob, making him the progenitor of the Tribe of Ephrai ...

. While it is believed to have been located close to Beth-horon, the exact location has not been identified.

W

Well Lahairoi, the

''See Beer-lahai-roi.''

Z

Zaphon

Zaphon (, rendered ''Sephenia'' in some manuscripts of the Septuagint) is mentioned in Joshua 13:27 as a location within the territory of the

tribe of Gad According to the Bible, the Tribe of Gad () was one of the Twelve Tribes of Israel who, after the Exodus from Egypt, settled on the eastern side of the Jordan River. It is one of the ten lost tribes. Biblical narrative After the conquest of ...

and in Judges 12:1 as the location where the

Ephraimites According to the Hebrew Bible, the Tribe of Ephraim (, ''ʾEp̄rayim,'' in pausa: , ''ʾEp̄rāyim'') was one of the Twelve Tribes of Israel. The Tribe of Manasseh, together with Ephraim, formed the Tribe of Joseph. It is one of the Ten Lost T ...

met with

and his army to complain that Jephthah had fought the

ites without calling on the Ephraimites for military assistance. The Easy-to-Read Version calls it a "city". Some translations (e.g. the

) render ''Tsaphonah'' as "northwards".

Zelzah

A place at the border of Benjamin, where two men were to meet Saul as a sign of his kingship, in 1 Samuel 10:2. This is the only mention of the place in the Bible, and its location is unidentified.

Zereda

Zereda(h) is the birthplace of Jeroboam, the first king of the northern Kingdom of Israel and the son of Nebat of the

Ziz

The "ascent of Ziz" is the place where, according to 2 Chronicles 20:16, Jahaziel told Jehoshaphat to expect an invading army of Moabites, Ammonites, and Edomites to ascend in front of the wilderness of Jeruel.

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