Bible Location
Meaning: burden; salvation · 1 cross reference · Modern-day map available
Mesha was the eastern or Arabian boundary-place in the Table of Nations. It is important because it belongs to the earliest ethnogeographic framing of the descendants of Joktan. First appears in Gen 10:30.1
AI summary: Mesha matters because Genesis maps peoples through named territorial extents rather than only through ancestry. The place belongs to the early remembered horizons of Arabia.1
A plain in that part of the boundaries of Arabia inhabited by the descendants of Joktan (Gen. 10:30). 3
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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.