- verses
- 2
- first named
- Joshua 11:21
- last named
- Joshua 15:50
- feature
- settlement
- coordinates
- 31.41°N · 34.95°E
Khirbet Anab es Seghireh (OpenBible)
Scholarship offers 2 identifications for this place. The leading one is shown; the others are recorded in the gazetteer.
Description
Anab in the text
Anab is mentioned in Joshua 11:21 and 15:50 as a city in the hill country of Judah. During the conquest of Canaan, Joshua defeated the Anakim, a race of giants, and captured the city of Anab along with Debir and Hebron (Joshua 11:21). Later, in the description of the territory allotted to Judah, Anab is listed among the cities in the hill country (Joshua 15:50).
The exact location of Anab is uncertain, but it was likely situated in the vicinity of Debir and Hebron, which are approximately 12 miles (19 km) southwest of Jerusalem. The city's capture by Joshua and its inclusion in the list of Judah's cities highlight its importance in the region during the early stages of Israel's settlement in the Promised Land.
No other information about Anab is provided in the Bible, and the city is not mentioned in any other context. Its significance lies primarily in its association with the conquest of Canaan and the defeat of the Anakim, which marked a crucial step in Israel's possession of the land promised to their forefathers.
Relations
Direct connections
Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.
The pattern
Where Anab is named
Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.
2 verses across 1 of 66 books; 65 write the name nowhere. Named in Joshua (2).
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Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 2, across 1 book.
Onward
Where this page goes
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