E'zion-ge'ber. See Eziongaber.
Source:
Smith’s Bible Dictionary
Ezion-gaber
E'zion-ga'ber. (giant's backbone). Num_33:35;
Deu_2:8; 1Ki_9:26;
1Ki_22:48; 2Ch_8:17.
The last station named for the encampment of the Israelites, before they came
to the wilderness of Zin. It probably stood at Ain el-Ghudyan, about ten
miles up what is now the dry bed of the Arabah, but which was probably then the
northern end of the gulf.
Source:
Smith’s Bible Dictionary
Ezion-Geber
ē-zi-on-gē´bẽr (עציון
גּבר, ‛ecyōn
gebher; Γασιών
Γάβερ, Gasiō̇n Gáber):
Always mentioned along with Elath (“Eziongaber,” Num_33:35
f the King James Version). When the children of Israel left “the way of the
Arabah,” having come from the Northwest, they seem to have turned to the
Northeast from the neighborhood of ‛Aḳaba, passing up by Wādy
el-Ithm toward the eastern desert (Deu_2:8).
Elath and Ezion-geber were evidently not far apart. They are named together
again in connection with the maritime enterprises of Solomon and Jehoshaphat (1Ki_9:26, etc.). They therefore both lay on the
shore of the sea. No trace of Ezion-geber is to be found on the present coast
line. It is probable, however, that in ancient times the sea covered a
considerable stretch of the mud flats at the South end of Wādy el-‛Arabah,
and the site of Ezion-geber may be sought near the spring ‛Ain el-Ghuḍyān,
about 15 miles North of the present head of the Gulf of ‛Aḳaba.
Source:
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Ezion-geber
The giant's backbone (so called from the head of a mountain which runs
out into the sea), an ancient city and harbour at the north-east end of the
Elanitic branch of the Red Sea, the Gulf of Akabah, near Elath or Eloth (Num_33:35; Deu_2:8).
Here Solomon built ships, “Tarshish ships,” like those trading from Tyre to
Tarshish and the west, which traded with Ophir (1Ki_9:26;
2Ch_8:17); and here also Jehoshaphat's
fleet was shipwrecked (1Ki_22:48; 2Ch_20:36). It became a populous town, many of
the Jews settling in it (2Ki_16:6,
“Elath”). It is supposed that anciently the north end of the gulf flowed
further into the country than now, as far as 'Ain el-Ghudyan, which is
10 miles up the dry bed of the Arabah, and that Ezion-geber may have been there.
Source:
Easton’s Bible Dictionary