ALEMA (1Ma_5:26).A city in Gilead; site unknown.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
al?ē̇-ma (Ἀλέμοις, Alémoı̄s): A town in Gilead, mentioned once only (1 Macc 5:26), besieged by the nations under Timotheus, together with Bosor and other cities; and probably relieved along with these cities by Judas Maccabeus, although no mention is made of Alema's relief. The name occurs the one time as dative plural.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Alema
(only in the dat. plur. ἐν Α᾿λέμοις), one of the fortified cities in Gilead beyond the Jordan, occupied in the time of Judas Maccabeus, to the oppression of the Jews, by the Gentiles, in connection with certain neighboring towns (1Ma_5:26). Grimm (Handb. zu d. Maccabees in loc.) thinks it is probably the BEER-ELIM SEE BEER-ELIM (q.v.) of Isa_15:8 (SEE BEER simply in Num_21:16), an identification favored by the associated names (Bozrah and Carnaim).
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.