Modern locations of places in the Bible:

Tell Umm Hamad

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Also Called	Tall Umm Hammad, Tell Umm Hamid, Umm Hamad el Sharqi, Umm Hamad esh Sherqi
Latitude, Longitude	32.142140, 35.581470
Palestine 1928 Grid Coordinates (?)	205022/172135
Type	settlement
Point Precision	1 km
Coordinates Sources	Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary (1992): Zarethan (place) Digital Archaeological Atlas of the Holy Land Digital Archaeological Atlas of the Holy Land Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000): Zarethan GeoNames MEGAJordan MEGAJordan Palestine Open Maps Wikidata Zondervan Atlas of the Bible (2010): Zarethan
General Location Notes	Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000) (Zarethan): “4 miles northeast of Tell ed Damiyeh” Wycliffe Bible Encyclopedia (1975) (Zarethan): "two miles northeast" of of Tell ed Damiyeh
Precise Coordinates Notes	Leonard, Jordan Valley Survey 1953 (1992) says that it "extends for several hundred meters," with "Tell Umm Hamad el-Gharbi, the slight rise at the western end... and "Tell Umm Hamad esh Sherqi, the longer, lower eastern end"
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Biblical places associated with Tell Umm Hamad

Zarethan: low confidence
Zeredah 2: low confidence
Zererah: low confidence
Beth-shittah: very low confidence

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Credit: Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2019 (modified)

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