Modern locations of places in the Bible:

Shivta

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Also Called	Horbat Shivta, Sobata (ancient name), Subeita, Tell es Sebeta
Latitude, Longitude	30.880000, 34.630000
Palestine 1928 Grid Coordinates (?)	114519/032269
Type	settlement
Point Precision	point in visible remains
Coordinates Sources	Amud Anan Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary (1992): Sobata Digital Archaeological Atlas of the Holy Land Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire GeoNames OpenStreetMap Pleiades Wikidata
General Location Notes	Woudstra, Joshua (1981) (12:9-24): “3 miles east [actually 28 miles southwest] of Beer-sheba” Studia Catholica, volume 25 (1950) (page 104) says that the identification of Tell es-Sebeta with Hormah is unlikely Realencyklopädie für Protestantische Theologie und Kirche (1908) (page 546): “between El-chalasa and Ain Kadis” Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary (1992) (Sobata) notes the historical assumption identifying this site with Hormah
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Biblical places associated with Shivta

Zephath: very low confidence
Hormah: very low confidence

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