Arnon

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From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Arnon
     swift, the southern boundary of the territory of Israel beyond
     Jordan, separating it from the land of Moab (Deut. 3:8, 16).
     This river (referred to twenty-four times in the Bible) rises in
     the mountains of Gilead, and after a circuitous course of about
     80 miles through a deep ravine it falls into the Dead Sea nearly


     opposite Engedi. The stream is almost dry in summer. It is now
     called el-Mujeb. The territory of the Amorites extended from the
     Arnon to the Jabbok.
     

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

  Arnon, rejoicing; sunlight