Bible Location
Meaning: ancient people; people decreasing · 3 cross references · Modern-day map available
Ibleam was a town associated with Manasseh in the Jezreel and northern hill-country zone. It is important because it reflects the incomplete expulsion of Canaanites and later appears in royal and military movement. First appears in Josh 17:11.1
Place meaning
ancient people; people decreasing
Coordinates
32.45, 35.28
First appears
Josh 17:11
AI summary: Ibleam's significance lies in its place within the unresolved northern landscape. Judges shows that Canaanite presence remained there, which fits the larger pattern of partial control in parts of the north. The cross references present Ibleam as a Manassite town where inheritance and incomplete conquest coexisted.1
Place meaning
ancient people; people decreasing
Latitude
32.45
Longitude
35.28
Bible references
3
People-waster, a city assigned to Manasseh (Josh. 17:11), from which the Israelites, however, could not expel the Canaanites (Judg. 1:27). It is also called Bileam (1 Chr. 6:70). It was probably the modern Jelamah, a village 2 1/2 miles north of Jenin. 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Source note: this 1893 dictionary language reflects its period and may be culturally insensitive or outdated.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.