Bible Location

Arabia

Meaning: evening; desert; ravens · 6 cross references · Modern-day map available

Arabia is the vast desert and caravan world south and east of the Levant, stretching across multiple regions and peoples rather than functioning as a single small biblical province. It is important because it appears in trade, prophecy, Paul's early post-conversion movements, and the wider setting of biblical interaction beyond Israel's settled land. First appears in 2 Chr 9:14.1

Place meaning

evening; desert; ravens

Coordinates

27.40, 37.70

First appears

2 Chr 9:14

AI summary: Arabia enters Scripture as a broad world of deserts, tribes, trade routes, and border peoples. In the Old Testament it is connected with commerce, neighboring rulers, and prophetic oracles directed toward the peoples of the steppe and caravan networks. In the New Testament Paul briefly places Arabia within his own early story, while Galatians uses the region in theological argument connected with Sinai. Because the name covers such a wide and shifting area, its importance lies less in one city or event and more in the expansive world beyond Israel's cultivated heartland. The cross references present Arabia as the Bible's desert frontier of trade, movement, and wider regional contact.1

Place meaning

evening; desert; ravens

Latitude

27.40

Longitude

37.70

Bible references

6