Bible Location
Meaning: appearance · 4 cross references · Modern-day map available
Mephaath was a Reubenite Levitical city east of the Jordan. It is important because it appears both in the territorial lists and later in Moabite judgment oracles. First appears in Josh 13:18.1
Place meaning
appearance
Coordinates
31.85, 35.93
First appears
Josh 13:18
AI summary: Mephaath is another transjordanian town whose history reflects shifting control. It begins within Reuben's and the Levites' ordered geography, but Jeremiah later names it among the places of Moab facing judgment. That movement suggests the unstable political and cultural situation east of the river over time. The cross references present Mephaath as a small eastern city caught between inheritance, sacred order, and later prophetic ruin.1
Place meaning
appearance
Latitude
31.85
Longitude
35.93
Bible references
4
Splendour, a Levitical city (Josh. 21:37) of the tribe of Reuben (13:18). 3
Source note: this 1893 dictionary language reflects its period and may be culturally insensitive or outdated. It is presented as historical source material, not as ai-BIBLE’s language, interpretation, or endorsement.
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, place metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.