zareth-shahar Summary and Overview
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zareth-shahar in Easton's Bible Dictionary
the splendour of the dawn, a city "in the mount of the valley" (Josh. 13:19). It is identified with the ruins of Zara, near the mouth of the Wady Zerka Main, on the eastern shore of the Dead Sea, some 3 miles south of the Callirrhoe. Of this town but little remains. "A few broken basaltic columns and pieces of wall about 200 yards back from the shore, and a ruined fort rather nearer the sea, about the middle of the coast line of the plain, are all that are left" (Tristram's Land of Moab).
zareth-shahar in Smith's Bible Dictionary
(splendor of the dawn), a place mentioned only in #Jos 13:19| in the catalogue of the towns allotted to Reuben.
zareth-shahar in Schaff's Bible Dictionary
ZA'RETH-SHA'HAR (splendour of the dawn), a city in Reuben, on a hill in a valley. Josh 13:19. About a mile and a half east of the Dead Sea, near the mouth of the Wady Zerka Main, is a place called Zara, or Sara, a heap of stones in a little green plain, which may mark the site.
zareth-shahar in Fausset's Bible Dictionary
One of Reuben's towns. Joshua 13:19, "in the mount of the valley" (haemeq). A Sara at wady Zerka Main, a mile from the Dead Sea, may now represent it. (Seetzen.)