International Standard Bible Encyclopedia: Iye-Abarim

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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia: Iye-Abarim


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ı̄-yē-ab´a-rim (עיּי העברים, ‛ı̄yē hā-‛ăbhārı̄m, “the heaps of the Abarim”; the King James Version Ije-abarim; in the Septuagint reads Codex Vaticanus, Χαλγλεί, Chalgleı́): A place in the journeyings of Israel named after Oboth, said to be “in the wilderness which is before Moab, toward the sunrising” (), “in the border of Moab” (). The indications of position here given are not sufficient to guide to any identification, and, so far, nothing has been discovered in the district to help us. Called simply “Iyim” (the King James Version “Iim”) in .