Bible Location
Meaning: a bone · 3 cross references · Modern-day map available
Ezem was a southern town in the Negeb associated with Judah and Simeon. It is important because it appears in the shared inheritance pattern of the southern tribes. First appears in Josh 15:29.1
AI summary: Ezem's significance lies in how it helps map the southern settlements. Like several other Negeb towns, it appears in overlapping Judahite and Simeonite lists, reflecting the layered way the south was inherited and inhabited. The cross references present Ezem as a modest southern settlement preserved through territorial memory.1
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.