Bible Location
Meaning: a name; putting; a precious stone · 1 cross reference · Modern-day map available
Leshem was the original name connected with the city later taken by the Danites and renamed Dan. It is important because it preserves an earlier layer of identity for one of Israel's famous northern cities. First appears in Josh 19:47.1
AI summary: Leshem matters because tribal migration in Judges is remembered through the capture and renaming of an existing place. The record belongs to the northern relocation story of Dan.1
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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.