Bible Location
Meaning: the wood of the man · 7 cross references · Modern-day map available
Ezion-geber was a port at the north end of the Gulf of Aqaba near Elath, linking Israel's world to the Red Sea trade routes. It is important because it appears in the wilderness journey and later in the seaborne ambitions of Solomon and Jehoshaphat. First appears in Num 33:35.1
Place meaning
the wood of the man
Coordinates
29.53, 35.00
First appears
Num 33:35
AI summary: Ezion-geber stands at the edge of Israel's usual land-focused story and opens it toward maritime trade. It first appears in the itinerary of Israel's wilderness travel, but its main significance comes in Kings and Chronicles, where Solomon builds ships there and reaches outward toward Ophir and long-distance commerce. Jehoshaphat's failed fleet shows the same port still mattered generations later, though not always successfully. The cross references present Ezion-geber as a Red Sea gateway where wilderness geography, royal trade, and economic ambition intersect.1
Place meaning
the wood of the man
Latitude
29.53
Longitude
35.00
Bible references
7
The giant’s backbone (so called from the head of a mountain which runs out into the sea), an ancient city and harbour at the north-east end of the Elanitic branch of the Red Sea, the Gulf of Akabah, near Elath or Eloth (Num. 33:35; Deut. 2:8). Here Solomon built ships, “Tarshish ships,” like those trading from Tyre to Tarshish and the west, which traded with Ophir (1 Kings 9:26; 2 Chr. 8:17); and here also Jehoshaphat’s fleet was shipwrecked (1 Kings 22:48; 2 Chr. 20:36). It became a populous town, many of the Jews settling in it (2 Kings 16:6, “Elath”). It is supposed that anciently the north end of the gulf flowed further into the country than now, as far as ‘Ain el-Ghudyan, which is 10 miles up the dry bed of the Arabah, and that Ezion-geber may have been there. 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Source note: this 1893 dictionary language reflects its period and may be culturally insensitive or outdated.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.
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Figure1: A table of cross references between the selected passage and other passages (Data from Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.)
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.