2 others in the registry answer to the name Eder. Every Eder in the Bible
- verses
- 1
- first named
- Joshua 15:21
- last named
- Joshua 15:21
- feature
- settlement
- coordinates
- 31.28°N · 35.13°E
Tel Arad (OpenBible)
Scholarship offers 2 identifications for this place. The leading one is shown; the others are recorded in the gazetteer.
Description
Eder in the text
Eder was a town situated in the Negev, the southern region of the territory allocated to the tribe of Judah. It is mentioned only once in the Bible, in the list of towns and villages belonging to Judah (Joshua 15:21). The exact location of Eder is unknown, but it was likely located in the arid wilderness south of Hebron. As one of the towns in the Negev, Eder would have faced the challenges of limited water resources and harsh desert conditions.
Relations
Direct connections
Every relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends of an edge always agree. Neither end of one reaches this entity.
Not stated
Nothing stands in a stated relation with this entity.
The pattern
Where Eder 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.
1 verse across 1 of 66 books; 65 write the name nowhere. Named in Joshua (1).
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Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — one, across 1 book.
Onward
Where this page goes
Nothing in the graph stands one hop from this entity yet. These are the best-connected entities of the same type, so the page still ends somewhere. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.
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