HebrewH4311Noun

מֵידְבָא

me.de.va

5Occurrences
H4311Strong's #
NounPart of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

Medeba, a place in Palestine

from H4325 (מַיִם) and H1679 (דֹּבֶא); water of quiet;

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
§ Medeba = "water of rest" a town in Moab assigned to Reuben and located 4 miles (6 km) southwest of Heshbon; still extant

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun

Morphology Code

N:N--L

Full Description

N:N--L

Occurrences

מֵידְבָא appears 5 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Joshua
2
1 Chronicles
1
Isaiah
1
Numbers
1

Key Passages

1 Chronicles 19:7BSB

So they hired for themselves thirty-two thousand chariots, as well as the king of Maacah with his troops, who came and camped near Medeba while the Ammonites came from their cities and marched out for battle.

Isaiah 15:2BSB

Dibon goes up to its templeto weep at its high places.Moab wails over Nebo,as well as over Medeba.Every head is shaved,every beard is cut off.

Joshua 13:9BSB

The area from Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley, along with the city in the middle of the valley, the whole plateau of Medeba as far as Dibon,

Joshua 13:16BSB

The territory from Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley, along with the city in the middle of the valley, to the whole plateau beyond Medeba,

Numbers 21:30BSB

But we have overthrown them;Heshbon is destroyed as far as Dibon.We demolished them as far as Nophah,which reaches to Medeba.”

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.