Zaretan

2 definitions found

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Zaretan
     When the Hebrews crossed the Jordan, as soon as the feet of the
     priests were dipped in the water, the flow of the stream was
     arrested. The point of arrest was the "city of Adam beside
     Zaretan," probably near Succoth, at the mouth of the Jabbok,
     some 30 miles up the river from where the people were encamped.


     There the water "stood and rose upon an heap." Thus the whole
     space of 30 miles of the river-bed was dry, that the tribes
     might pass over (Josh. 3:16, 17; comp. Ps. 104:3).
     

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

  Zaretan, tribulation; perplexity