Difference between revisions of "Dizahab"

== Easton's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_31146" /> ==

Deuteronomy 1:1

<p> (Deuteronomy 1:1) ("where gold is abundant"): an early stage of Israel's march after Sinai. [[Marks]] of former mining abound in the [[Arabian]] peninsula, and have led to recent discoveries. Dahal is probably too far out of the way on the W. of the gulf of Akaba to be the ancient Dizahab. </p>

== Holman Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_39809" /> ==

Deuteronomy 1:1

== Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible <ref name="term_50667" /> ==

<p> <strong> DIZAHAB </strong> . The writer of Deuteronomy 1:1 thought of this as a town on the further side of the Jordan, in the ‘Arabah, on the border of Moab, ‘over against Suph,’ and as belonging to a group of places which he names. Unfortunately the mention of them does not make the matter clear. The site of [[Suph]] is unknown. So is that of Paran. The proposed identification of <strong> [[Tophel]] </strong> with <em> et-Tafile </em> , S.S.E. of the [[Dead]] Sea, fails on phonetic grounds. If <em> ‘Ain el-Huderah </em> , between Jebel Musa and ‘Akabah, represents a <em> [[Hazeroth]] </em> , and if <em> [[Laban]] </em> = <em> [[Libnah]] </em> ( Numbers 33:20 ), not far from <em> ‘Ain el-Huderah </em> , these are at too great a distance from the ‘Arabah. The same is to be said of Burckhardt’s suggestion that <em> [[Mina]] ed-Dhahab </em> , between the Ras Muhammad and ‘Akabah, is the place of which we are in search. Most probably the text is corrupt. At Numbers 21:14 we find [[Suphah]] ( Deuteronomy 1:1 Samuph) in conjunction with [[Vaheb]] (see RV [Note: Revised Version.] ); and <em> Vaheb </em> , in the original, is almost the same as <em> [[Zahab]] </em> , which, indeed, the LXX [Note: Septuagint.] reads. There seems to be some relationship between the two passages, but neither of them has so far been satisfactorily explained. At [[Genesis]] 36:39 we have <strong> [[Mezahab]] </strong> (= ‘waters of gold’): this gives a better sense than <em> [[Dizahab]] </em> , and may be the proper form of the name. </p> <p> The [[Versions]] do not help us. The LXX [Note: Septuagint.] has <em> Katachrysea </em> (= ‘rich in gold’). The Vulg. [Note: Vulgate.] ( <em> ubi auri est plurimum </em> ) takes the word as descriptive of the district, ‘where is gold in abundance.’ The [[Targums]] see in it an allusion to the golden calf. And we may add that Ibn Ezra thought it was an unusual designation of a place which commonly went by another name. </p> <p> J. Taylor. </p>

== Morrish Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_65771" /> ==

<p> Place in the wilderness near where [[Moses]] rehearsed the law.Deuteronomy 1:1 . Identified with <i> Dahab </i> on the west shore ofthe [[Gulf]] of Akaba, about 28 30' N, 34 29' E . </p>

== Smith's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_72207" /> ==

<p> Diz'ahab. (region of gold). A place in the [[Arabian]] desert, mentioned in Deuteronomy 1:1, that is identified with Dahab, a cape on the western shore of the [[Gulf]] of Akabah. </p>

<p> (Hebrews Di-Zahab', דְּי זָהָב [see below]), a place in the desert of Sinai, one of the boundary points of the "Arabah," or region where the [[Israelites]] wandered (Deuteronomy 1:1). It is probably the same cape now called Dahab (Robinson, Res. 1:217; 2:600), on the western shore of the Elanitic [[Gulf]] (Schwarz, Palest. page 212), about opposite Sinai; it abounds in palms, and has traces of ruins (Burckhardt, Syria, page 523). Wilson, however, doubts the identification (Lands of Bible, 1:235 n.). (See [[Wilderness]]). The name is indicative of the presence of gold there, as that is the meaning of the latter half of the word (so Sept. Καταχρύσεα, Vulg. ubi auri est plurimum); but the former part of the name is foreign, either with the Aramaean expletive = of (literally "that which is"), or from the Arabic = בִּעִל, "lord," i.e., possessor of (Gesenius, Thes. page 334). With this import also agrees the description of [[Eusebius]] and [[Jerome]] (Onomast. s.v. Κατὰ τὰ χρύσεα, Cata Ta Chrysea), that the mountains in that region (in Phaeno, according to the true reading; see [[Le]] Clere in Bonfrere's ed.) are full of gold veins; also the modern name, which is in full Minah el-Dahab, "the porch of gold" (Bü sching, Erdbeschr. XI, 1:621). </p>

<ref name="term_31146"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/easton-s-bible-dictionary/dizahab Dizahab from Easton's Bible Dictionary]</ref>

<ref name="term_39809"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/holman-bible-dictionary/dizahab Dizahab from Holman Bible Dictionary]</ref>

<ref name="term_50667"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/hastings-dictionary-of-the-bible/dizahab Dizahab from Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible]</ref>

<ref name="term_65771"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/morrish-bible-dictionary/dizahab Dizahab from Morrish Bible Dictionary]</ref>

<ref name="term_72207"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/smith-s-bible-dictionary/dizahab Dizahab from Smith's Bible Dictionary]</ref>