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Zered
=Zared, luxuriance; willow bush, a brook or valley communicating with the Dead Sea near its southern extremity (Num 21:12; Deut 2:14). It is called the “brook of the willows” (Isa 15:7) and the “river of the wilderness” (Amos 6:14). It has been identified with the Wady el-Aksy.
Named in the Bible
2 verses
- Deuteronomy 2:13 Now rise up, said I, and get you over the brook Zered. And we went over the brook Zered.
- Deuteronomy 2:14 And the space in which we came from Kadeshbarnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, was thirty and eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were wasted out from among the host, as the LORD sware unto them.
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), by Matthew George Easton.
