HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H6890
צֶרֶת הַשַּׁ֫חַר
tse.ret hash.sha.char — Zereth-shahar
§ Zareth-shahar = "splendour of the dawn" a town in Reuben
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Zareth-shahar
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Historical dictionary entry
The splendour of the dawn, a city “in the mount of the valley” (Josh. 13:19). It is identified with the ruins of Zara, near the mouth of the Wady Zerka Main, on the eastern shore of the Dead Sea, some 3 miles south of the Callirrhoe. Of this town but little remains. “A few broken basaltic columns and pieces of wall about 200 yards back from the shore, and a ruined fort rather nearer the sea, about the middle of the coast line of the plain, are all that are left” (Tristram’s Land of Moab).
Scripture references
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.
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