Kibroth-hattaavah

2 definitions found

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Kibroth-hattaavah
     the graves of the longing or of lust, one of the stations of the
     Israelites in the wilderness. It was probably in the Wady
     Murrah, and has been identified with the Erweis el-Ebeirig,
     where the remains of an ancient encampment have been found,
     about 30 miles north-east of Sinai, and exactly a day's journey


     from 'Ain Hudherah.
     
       "Here began the troubles of the journey. First, complaints
     broke out among the people, probably at the heat, the toil, and
     the privations of the march; and then God at once punished them
     by lightning, which fell on the hinder part of the camp, and
     killed many persons, but ceased at the intercession of Moses
     (Num. 11:1, 2). Then a disgust fell on the multitude at having
     nothing to eat but the manna day after day, no change, no flesh,
     no fish, no high-flavoured vegetables, no luscious fruits...The
     people loathed the 'light food,' and cried out to Moses, 'Give
     us flesh, give us flesh, that we may eat.'" In this emergency
     Moses, in despair, cried unto God. An answer came. God sent "a
     prodigious flight of quails, on which the people satiated their
     gluttonous appetite for a full month. Then punishment fell on
     them: they loathed the food which they had desired; it bred
     disease in them; the divine anger aggravated the disease into a
     plague, and a heavy mortality was the consequence. The dead were
     buried without the camp; and in memory of man's sin and of the
     divine wrath this name, Kibroth-hattaavah, the Graves of Lust,
     was given to the place of their sepulchre" (Num. 11:34, 35;
     33:16, 17; Deut. 9:22; comp. Ps. 78:30, 31)., Rawlinson's Moses,
     p. 175. From this encampment they journeyed in a north-eastern
     direction to Hazeroth.
     

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

  Kibroth-hattaavah, the graves of lust