Ezion-geber

2 definitions found

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Ezion-geber
     the giant's backbone (so called from the head of a mountain
     which runs out into the sea), an ancient city and harbour at the
     north-east end of the Elanitic branch of the Red Sea, the Gulf
     of Akabah, near Elath or Eloth (Num. 33:35; Deut. 2:8). Here
     Solomon built ships, "Tarshish ships," like those trading from


     Tyre to Tarshish and the west, which traded with Ophir (1 Kings
     9:26; 2 Chr. 8:17); and here also Jehoshaphat's fleet was
     shipwrecked (1 Kings 22:48; 2 Chr. 20:36). It became a populous
     town, many of the Jews settling in it (2 Kings 16:6, "Elath").
     It is supposed that anciently the north end of the gulf flowed
     further into the country than now, as far as 'Ain el-Ghudyan,
     which is 10 miles up the dry bed of the Arabah, and that
     Ezion-geber may have been there.
     

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

  Ezion-geber, the wood of the man