Medeba
me.de.va is a proper place name used for a plain, a boundary extent, a campsite, and a site of Moabite mourning.
The attested uses present me.de.va as a proper place name: it marks a plain and territorial extent, and it also names a location before which forces camp and upon which Moab mourns.
Senses in use
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A named place in territorial descriptions · dominant
In Joshua 13:9 the proper noun occurs in the clause describing “all the plain of Medeba as far as Dibon,” and Joshua 13:16 similarly places it in “all the plain upon Medeba.” Numbers 21:30 names it as the extent reached by the devastation described in the verse.
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A named location in military and mourning scenes · common
In 1 Chronicles 19:7 the proper noun identifies the place before which the hired forces camped, while Isaiah 15:2 places it in Moab's wailing. In 1 Chronicles 19:7 the APB renders the location as “before Medeba”; in Isaiah 15:2 it renders “upon Medeba Moab wails.”
In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB consistently presents the term as “Medeba,” while placing it in varying clauses: a plain, an extent, a campsite, and a place of wailing. These clauses confirm the location's setting rather than define the term independently.