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Bozrah means sheepfold or enclosure in Hebrew [3] and was a pastoral city [citation needed] in Edom southeast of the Dead Sea.According to the biblical narrative, it was the home city of one of Edom's kings, Jobab son of Zerah (Genesis 36:32–33) and the homeland of Jacob's twin brother, Esau.
Sela (Hebrew: סֶּלַע, Selaʿ, "rock"; Arabic: السلع, es-Sela‛; Greek: πέτρα, 'Petra'; Latin: petra) [1] is a geographical name encountered several times in the Hebrew Bible, and applicable to a variety of locations. [2] One site by this name is placed by the Second Book of Kings in Edom. [2]
The ancient capital of Edom was Bozrah, now Busaira, Jordan. [37] According to the Book of Genesis, Esau's descendants settled in the land after they had displaced the Horites. [38] It was also called the land of Seir; Mount Seir appears to have been strongly identified with them and may have been a cultic site.
Mount Seir (Hebrew: הַר-שֵׂעִיר, romanized: Har Sēʿīr) is the ancient and biblical name for a mountainous region stretching between the Dead Sea and the Gulf of Aqaba in the northwestern region of Edom and southeast of the Kingdom of Judah. It may also have marked the older historical limit of Ancient Egypt in Canaan. [1]
Kadesh Barnea is a key feature in the common biblical formula delineating the southern border of the Land of Israel (cf. Numbers 34:4, Joshua 15:3, Ezekiel 47:19 etc.) [4] and thus its identification is key to understanding both the ideal and geopolitically realised borders of ancient Israel. Petra, sometimes identified as an eastern Kadesh
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Petra was the focus of an American PBS Nova special, "Petra: Lost City of Stone", [109] which premiered in the US and Europe in February 2015. Petra is central to Netflix's first Arabic original series Jinn, which is a young adult supernatural drama about the djinn in the ancient city of Petra. They must try and stop the demons from destroying ...
The Siq (Arabic: السيق, transliterated al-Sīq, transcribed as-Sīq, [a] literally 'the Shaft') is the main entrance to the ancient Nabatean city of Petra in southern Jordan. Also known as Siqit, it is a dim, narrow gorge (in some points no more than 3 metres (10 ft) wide) and winds its way approximately 1.2 kilometres ( 3 ⁄ 4 mi) and ...