Ezem (, ''vars.'' ‛Atsem, 'Asam, Azem, 'Osem or Otzem, meaning ''strength, might, bone, to close,'' ''to defend'', also ''self'', ''self-same'' and ''strenuous''
) is an unidentified site in the
Negev
The Negev ( ; ) or Naqab (), is a desert and semidesert region of southern Israel. The region's largest city and administrative capital is Beersheba (pop. ), in the north. At its southern end is the Gulf of Aqaba and the resort town, resort city ...
of
Judah toward the Edomite border.
It is mentioned in the
Biblical
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Book of Joshua
The Book of Joshua is the sixth book in the Hebrew Bible and the Old Testament, and is the first book of the Deuteronomistic history, the story of Israel from the conquest of Canaan to the Babylonian captivity, Babylonian exile. It tells of the ...
(; ). In the
King James Version
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it is spelled "Azem" in Joshua and "Ezem" in
Chronicles
Chronicles may refer to:
* Books of Chronicles in the Bible
* Chronicle, chronological histories
* ''The Chronicles of Narnia'', a novel series by C. S. Lewis
* ''The Chronicles of Prydain'', a novel series by Lloyd Alexander.
* ''Holinshed's Chro ...
().
In Joshua 19:1-3 and 1 Chronicles 4:29 it is one of the towns "in the midst of
the inheritance of Judah" assigned to
Simeon
Simeon () is a given name, from the Hebrew (Biblical Hebrew, Biblical ''Šimʿon'', Tiberian vocalization, Tiberian ''Šimʿôn''), usually transliterated in English as Shimon. In Greek, it is written Συμεών, hence the Latinized spelling Sy ...
.
See also
*
Cities in the Book of Joshua
The Book of Joshua lists almost 400 ancient Levantine city names (including alternative names and derivatives in the form of words describing citizens of a town) which refer to over 300 distinct locations in Israel, the West Bank, Jordan, Lebanon a ...
References
References
*
Hebrew Bible places
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