Ar of Moab

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Ar of Moab was an ancient Moabite city mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, located east of the Dead Sea in what is now modern-day Jordan.

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Label Occurrences
Ar of Moab canonical 3

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Statements (29)

Predicate Object
instanceOf ancient city
biblical city
associatedWithPeople Moabites
continent Asia
country Kingdom of Moab
culturalContext Northwest Semitic
describedAs Moabite city
ethnicContext Moabites
historicalPeriod Iron Age Levant
languageOfPrimarySources Hebrew
surface form: Biblical Hebrew
locatedEastOf Dead Sea
locatedIn Moab
Transjordan
locatedInPresentDay Jordan
mentionedIn Tanakh
surface form: Hebrew Bible

Bible
surface form: Old Testament
mentionedInBook Book of Deuteronomy
Book of Numbers
modernCountryTerritory Jordan (country)
surface form: Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
nearbyBodyOfWater Arnon River
notableFeature identified as a principal city of Moab in biblical tradition
partOf ancient Levant
region East of the Jordan River
religiousTextCategory place in the Bible
religiousTradition Christianity
Judaism
scripturalRole geographical reference in biblical narratives
status archaeologically uncertain location
ruined city

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

land of Moab hasCity Ar of Moab
Moabites importantCity Ar of Moab
Moab majorCity Ar of Moab