Modern locations of places in the Bible:

Ain el Gharabeh

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Also CalledAin el Gharbeh
Latitude, Longitude31.845782, 35.501718
Palestine 1928 Grid Coordinates (?)197588/139249
Typesettlement
Point Precision100 m
Coordinates Sources
General Location Notes
  • Zondervan Encyclopedia of the Bible (2010) (Beth Arabah): “modern Arab village… located in the wilderness about 4 miles southeast of Jericho, on the north bank of the Wadi Qelt a few miles west of the Jordan Valley”
  • Palestine Open Maps shows Kitf el Gharaba south of the wadi, but it’s an area rather than a specific point
Precise Coordinates NotesMcKinny, Historical Geography of the Administrative Division of Judah (2014) (page 57) identifies this as site 2759 in Greenberg and Keinan, Israeli Archaeological Activity in the West Bank, 1967-2007 (2009), which is at these coordinates
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Biblical places associated with Ain el Gharabeh

10-meter-per-pixel satellite Image

satellite view of the region around Ain el Gharabeh
Credit: Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2019 (modified)