ACRABIM

ACRABIM

“Scorpions”.
Mountain pass south of the Dead Sea, which formed the southern limit of Palestine, and which was also “the border of the Amorites” (Num. 34:4; Judges 1:36; Joshua 15:3).

It is also mentioned in apocryphal literature, under the name of Acrabatane, as a battlefield between Judas Maccabeus and the Edomites (1 Mac. 5:3).

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