עֶצְיוֹן גֶּבֶרʻEtsyôwn Geber
proper name [of a location]: near Elath at head of Gulf of Akaba (1 Kings 9:26; 2 Chronicles 8:17; 1 Kings 22:49; 2 Chronicles 20:36; Deuteronomy 2:8)
Pronunciation: ets-yone' gheh'ber · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H6100
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 14 times in the Bible.
- Numbers 33:35 They left Abronah and camped at Ezion-geber.
- Numbers 33:36 They left Ezion-geber and camped at Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.
- Deuteronomy 2:8 “So we bypassed the territory of our relatives, the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir. We avoided the road through the Arabah Valley that comes up from Elath and Ezion-geber. “Then as we turned north along the desert route through Moab,
- 1 Kings 9:26 King Solomon also built a fleet of ships at Ezion-geber, a port near Elath in the land of Edom, along the shore of the Red Sea.
- 1 Kings 22:48 Jehoshaphat also built a fleet of trading ships to sail to Ophir for gold. But the ships never set sail, for they met with disaster in their home port of Ezion-geber.
- 2 Chronicles 8:17 Later Solomon went to Ezion-geber and Elath, ports along the shore of the Red Sea in the land of Edom.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).