Horonaim ( ''Ḥōrōnayīm'') is a city in

Moab Moab () was an ancient Levant, Levantine kingdom whose territory is today located in southern Jordan. The land is mountainous and lies alongside much of the eastern shore of the Dead Sea. The existence of the Kingdom of Moab is attested to by ...

, mentioned in two

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text () is sometimes translated as Horonaim (in e.g. NIV, ISV), although it possibly derives from as little as a preposition. There is some reason to identify Horonaim with the city Horonan ( Moabite: 𐤇𐤅𐤓𐤍𐤍 *''Ḥawrānān''), named in the

Mesha Stele The Mesha Stele, also known as the Moabite Stone, is a stele dated around 840 BCE containing a significant Canaanite and Aramaic inscriptions, Canaanite inscription in the name of King Mesha of Moab (a kingdom located in modern Jordan). Mesha tel ...

(lines 31 and 32). The name may derive from the god Horon, or from Western Semitic words for cave, cavern, hollow or valley.; and ''Strong's Hebrew'', both i

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