dragons; fathers; desires
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
OBOTH.A station of the children of Israel (Num_21:10-11; Num_33:43 f.). Nothing definite is known as to its position.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
A stage in Israel's journey, on the border of Edom and Moab (Num_21:10; Num_33:43). N. of Punon, E. of the northern part of Edom. Now the halting place el Ahsa on the pilgrim route between Damascus and Mecca. Oboth means "holes dug for water"; plural of Ob or obah, Arabic weibeh. Ahsa is also a plural meaning the same. The wady el Ahsa runs N.W. into the Dead Sea, and is the boundary between the provinces Jebal and Kerak, as anciently between Edom and Moab.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
O'both. (bottles). One of the encampments of the Israelites, east of Moab. Num_21:10; Num_33:43. Its exact site is unknown, but it was probably south of the Dead Sea, on the boundary between Moab and Edom. ? Editor).
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
ō?both, ō?bōth (אבת, 'ōbhōth, ?waterbags?): A desert camp of the Israelites, the 3rd after leaving Mt. Hor and close to the borders of Moab (Num_21:10, Num_21:11; Num_33:43, Num_33:14). See WANDERINGS OF ISRAEL.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
O?both, a station of the Israelites [WANDERING].
The Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature
by John Kitto.
Oboth
(Heb. Oboth', אֹבֹת, water-skins, i.e., according to Furst, hollow passes; Sept. ᾿Ωβώθ v. r. Y Σωβώθ), the forty-sixth station of the Israelites on their way to Canaan, near Moab (Num_21:10-11; Num_33:43-44), between Punon and Ije-abarim; probably south of the Dead Sea, possibly near Wady el-Ghuweit. SEE EXODE.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.