Abarim

2 definitions found

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Abarim
     regions beyond; i.e., on the east of Jordan, a mountain, or
     rather a mountain-chain, over against Jericho, to the east and
     south-east of the Dead Sea, in the land of Moab. From "the top
     of Pisgah", i.e., Mount Nebo (q.v.), one of its summits, Moses
     surveyed the Promised Land (Deut. 3:27; 32:49), and there he


     died (34:1,5). The Israelites had one of their encampments in
     the mountains of Abarim (Num. 33:47,48) after crossing the
     Arnon.
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Abarim, passages; passengers