HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H1850
דׇּפְקָה
doph.qah — Dophkah
§ Dophkah = "knocking" a stopping place during Israel's wilderness wandering
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Dophkah
Original Hebrew / Aramaic / Greek connected to this term
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Historical dictionary entry
Knocking, an encampment of the Israelites in the wilderness (Num. 33:12). It was in the desert of Sin, on the eastern shore of the western arm of the Red Sea, somewhere in the Wady Feiran.
Scripture references
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.