Arabah
a.ra.vah identifies the Arabah in accounts of travel, boundaries, settlement, and wilderness landscapes.
The term consistently identifies the Arabah across descriptions of travel routes, territorial limits, encampments, and landscapes marked by wilderness, dryness, water, or cultivation; plural construct forms occur in phrases locating Moab and Jericho.
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The Arabah in geographic descriptions · dominant
The singular form identifies the Arabah in route and boundary statements: in Deuteronomy 3:17 the APB renders a boundary reaching “the sea of the Arabah,” and in 2 Samuel 2:29 it renders Abner’s night march “through the Arabah.” The same form occurs in landscape clauses: Isaiah 35:6 places torrents there, while Jeremiah 51:43 describes a land of dryness and Arabah through which no person passes. Plural construct forms locate events “in the plains of Moab” or “in the plains of Jericho” in Numbers 22:1 and Joshua 4:13.
In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB commonly presents the term as “Arabah,” especially in route, boundary, and landscape clauses. In plural construct phrases it renders the location as “plains of Moab” or “plains of Jericho”; Those English phrases should not be treated as separate definitions.