Arnon River

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The Arnon River is an important seasonal watercourse in the Levant, historically marking the boundary between ancient kingdoms east of the Dead Sea.

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All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Arnon River canonical 2

Statements (29)

Predicate Object
instanceOf river
seasonal watercourse
associatedWithAncientRegion Ammon NERFINISHED
Edom NERFINISHED
Moab NERFINISHED
biblicalName Arnon NERFINISHED
drainageBasin eastern highlands of the Dead Sea
emptiesInto Dead Sea NERFINISHED
flowsThrough deep gorge
functionedAs natural frontier
political boundary
hasFlowCharacteristic seasonal
wadi-like
hasHistoricalRole boundary between Israelite-controlled territories and Moabite lands
hasHydrologicalType ephemeral stream
hasMouthElevation approximately -400 meters
historicallyMarkedBoundaryBetween Kingdom of Moab and Amorite territories NERFINISHED
historicallyMarkedBoundaryOf Kingdom of Moab NERFINISHED
Kingdom of Sihon NERFINISHED
locatedEastOf Dead Sea NERFINISHED
locatedIn Jordan NERFINISHED
Levant NERFINISHED
Transjordan NERFINISHED
mentionedIn Book of Deuteronomy NERFINISHED
Book of Numbers NERFINISHED
Tanakh
surface form: Hebrew Bible
referencedAs border of Moab in biblical texts
region East of the Dead Sea
wasStrategicallyImportantIn Iron Age Levant NERFINISHED

Referenced by (2)

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

Moab borderedBy Arnon River
Ar of Moab nearbyBodyOfWater Arnon River