place
Medeba
מֵידְבָא
Medeba, a city in Moab captured by the Israelites (Numbers 21:30; Joshua 13:9, 16), later a site of battle between the Ammonites and David's army (1Ch.19.7).
- verses
- 5
- first named
- Numbers 21:30
- last named
- Isaiah 15:2
- feature
- settlement
- coordinates
- 31.72°N · 35.80°E
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Description
Medeba in the text
Medeba was an ancient city located in Moab, east of the Dead Sea. It was captured by the Israelites during their conquest of the region (Numbers 21:30; Joshua 13:9, 16). The city and its surrounding plain were allotted to the tribe of Reuben. During the reign of King David, the Ammonites hired Syrian mercenaries and gathered at Medeba to fight against Israel (1Ch.19.7). The Moabite Stone, an important archaeological find, mentions Medeba as a city that the Moabite King Mesha had captured from Israel. The prophet Isaiah, in his oracle against Moab, mentions Medeba as one of the cities that would mourn over the coming destruction (Isaiah 15:2).
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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 Medeba 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.
5 verses across 4 of 66 books; 62 write the name nowhere. Named in Numbers (1), Joshua (2), 1 Chronicles (1) and Isaiah (1).
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Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 5, across 4 books.
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Where they appear
What happened here
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