Jotbathah

Fausset's Bible Dictionary

one stage of Israel in the wilderness, "a land of torrents of waters" (Numbers 33:33; Deuteronomy 10:7). Now wady Tabah, six miles S.W. of the head of the Elanitic gulf of the Red Sea, abounding in water, tamarisks, and palms. Robinson calls it wady el Adhbeh, a sandy plain descending into wady el Jerafeh; next Gudgodah or Horhagidgad.

Holman Bible Dictionary

Numbers 33:33Deuteronomy 10:7 Deuteronomy 10:8-9 Deuteronomy 10:1Deuteronomy 10:6-7 Deuteronomy 10:8Jotbah

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

JOTBATHAH. A station in the journeyings of the Israelites ( Numbers 33:33 f., Deuteronomy 10:7 ), described as ‘a land of brooks of waters.’ Its position is unknown.

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Jot'bathah. (goodness). Deuteronomy 10:7; Numbers 33:33. A desert station of the Israelites.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

jot´ba - tha ( יטבּתה , yoṭbāthāh ): A desert camp of the Israelites between Hor-hagidgad and Abronah ( Numbers 33:33 , Numbers 33:34; Deuteronomy 10:7 ). It was "a land of brooks of water" (Deuteronomy 10:7 ). Site is unknown. See Wanderings Of Israel .

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

[some Jotba'thah] (Heb. Yotba'thah, יָטְבָתָה, goodness, i.e. pleasantness, compare Agathopolis [the name is the same with יָטְבָה, Jotbah, with ה paragogic appended]; Sept. Ι᾿ετεβαθά v.r. Ταιβαθά,a etc. Auth. Vers. in Deuteronomy 10:7, "Jotbath"), the thirty-fourth station of the Israelites during their wandering in the desert, situated between Hor-hagidgad and Ebronah (Numbers 33:33-34), and again their forty-first station, between Gudgodah and the Red Sea (Deuteronomy 10:7). described in the latter passage as "a land of rivers (נִחֲלַים, winter-brooks) of waters." The locality thus indicated is probably the expanded valley near the confluence of wady Jerafeh in its southern part with wady Mukutta el- Tuwarik and others (Robinson's Researches, 1, 261), especially wady el- Adbeh, which nearly approaches the Heb. name (Jour. Sac. Lit. April, 1860, p. 47-49). This is generally a region answering to the description of fertility (Bonar's Desert of Sinai, p. 295). Schwarz (Palestine, p. 213), however, thinks wady Tuba, nearer the Akabah, is meant. (See Exode).