Modern locations of places in the Bible:

Umm el Azam

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Also CalledHar Ezem, Mount Otzam, Thaffa
Latitude, Longitude31.080567, 34.940812
Palestine 1928 Grid Coordinates (?)144293/054394
Typemountain
Point Precisionpoint on mountain
Coordinates Sources
General Location Notes
  • Zondervan Encyclopedia of the Bible (2010) (Ezem), International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1979) (Ezem): “12 miles southeast of Beersheba
  • McKinny, Historical Geography of the Administrative Division of Judah (2014) (page 98): “10 km south of Aroer
  • Palestine Open Maps (Palestine 1:100,000) calls an area just to the north the spelling variant "Umm Idham"
Precise Coordinates Notesthe identification of Umm el Azam with Thaffa is per McKinny, Historical Geography of the Administrative Division of Judah (2014) (page 98)
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Biblical places associated with Umm el Azam

10-meter-per-pixel satellite Image

satellite view of the region around Umm el Azam
Credit: Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2019 (modified)