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Maaleh-acrabbim
Ascent of the scorpions; i.e., “scorpion-hill”, a pass on the south-eastern border of Palestine (Num 34:4; Josh 15:3). It is identified with the pass of Sufah, entering Palestine from the great Wady el-Fikreh, south of the Dead Sea. (See Akrabbim.)
Named in the Bible
1 verse
- Joshua 15:3 And it went out to the south side to Maalehacrabbim, and passed along to Zin, and ascended up on the south side unto Kadeshbarnea, and passed along to Hezron, and went up to Adar, and fetched a compass to Karkaa:
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), by Matthew George Easton.
