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Abelmizraim
Morrish Bible Dictionary
or This signifies, with the Hebrew points, 'meadow of the Egyptians;' but 'mourning of the Egyptians' if read without or with different points. The context in Genesis 50:11 indicates 'mourning' as a part of the name. It was the threshing floor of Atad 'beyond Jordan.' This would seem to place the seven days' mourning on the east of Jordan, before the body was carried into Canaan, for interment: cf. Genesis 50:12,13 . But some hold that Moses by 'beyond Jordan' signifies the west because of his standpoint being on the east. The inhabitants of the land being called Canaanites also points to the west; and it is remarkable that Jerome uses a similar expression in 'trans-Jordanem,' and then states that ATAD, which is the same place, was between the Jordan and Jericho. It is not identified.
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Morrish, George. Entry for 'Abelmizraim'. Morrish Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/mbd/a/abelmizraim.html. 1897.
