A city at the northern extremity of the Elanitic or eastern gulf of the Red Sea, and close by Elath. The Israelites rested here in the last year of their wanderings from Egypt to Canaan, Nu 33:35De 2:8. At this port Solomon equipped his fleets for the voyage to Ophir, 1Ki 9:26. A similar enterprise of Jehoshaphat failed, 1Ki 22:482Ch 20:36. SeeELATHandEXODUS.
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American Tract Society Bible Dictionary
A Dictionary of the Holy Bible, American Tract Society, c. 1859, edited by W. W. Rand.