Medeba
מֵידְבָאStrong’s H4311medeva (me-de-va)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Medeva is the Hebrew word usually translated “medeba”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“We have shot at them; Heshbon is perished even unto Dibon, and we have laid them waste even unto Nophah, which reacheth unto Medeba.”
Meaning
- § Medeba = "water of rest"
How it's translated
- medeba 5
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Joshua 2
- Numbers 1
- 1 Chronicles 1
- Isaiah 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Joshua 13:9From Aroer, that is upon the bank of the river Arnon, and the city that is in the midst of the river, and all the plain of Medeba unto Dibon;
- Joshua 13:16And their coast was from Aroer, that is on the bank of the river Arnon, and the city that is in the midst of the river, and all the plain by Medeba;
- 1 Chronicles 19:7So they hired thirty and two thousand chariots, and the king of Maachah and his people; who came and pitched before Medeba. And the children of Ammon gathered themselves together from their cities, and came to battle.
- Isaiah 15:2He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the high places, to weep: Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba: on all their heads shall be baldness, and every beard cut off.
Hebrew dictionary
מֵידְבָא medeva · Medeba
§ Medeba = "water of rest" a town in Moab assigned to Reuben and located 4 miles (6 km) southwest of Heshbon; still extant
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.