Edom

Edom (; ; ; ; Ancient Egyptian: jdwmꜥ) was an ancient kingdom that stretched across areas in the south of present-day Jordan, Palestine and Israel. Edom and the Edomites appear in several written sources relating to the late Bronze Age and to the Iron Age in the Levant, including the list of the Egyptian pharaoh Seti I from c. 1215 BC as well as in the chronicle of a campaign by Ramesses III (r. 1186–1155 BC), and the Hebrew Bible.

thumb|upright=1.25|Date palm plantation in the Israeli Arava thumb|Southern tip of the Arava with King Hussein International Airport, [[Aqaba and the Gulf of Aqaba seen from Israel]]

Hasmonean ruler

ancient trade route

thumb|Illustration from Phillip Medhurst Collection depicting Joshua fighting Amalek (Exodus 17).|alt=|upright=1.3 Amalek (; ) was a nation described in the Hebrew Bible as a staunch enemy of the Israelites. The name "Amalek" can refer to the nation's founder, a grandson of Esau; his descendants, the Amalekites; or the territories of Amalek, which they inhabited.

extinct Canaanite dialect

Maresha was an Iron Age city mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, whose remains have been excavated at Tell Sandahanna (Arabic name), an archaeological mound or 'tell' renamed after its identification to Tel Maresha (). The ancient Judahite city became Idumaean after the fall of Judah in 586 BCE, and after Alexander's conquest of the region in 332 BCE became Hellenised under the name or Marissa (Greek: Μαρίσσα) . The tell is situated in Israel's Shephelah region, i.e. in the foothills of the Judaean Mountains, about south of Beit Gubrin.

mountainous region stretching between the Dead Sea and the Gulf of Aqaba

human settlement in Jordan

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human settlement

mountain in Jordan

Kenizzite (, also spelled Cenezite in the Douay–Rheims Bible) was an Edomite tribe referred to in the covenant God made with Abraham (). They are not mentioned among the other inhabitants of Canaan in and and probably inhabited some part of Arabia, in the confines of Syria.

story in the Book of Genesis

Anakim ( ʿĂnāqīm) are mentioned in the Bible as descendants of Anak.

Edomite clan and an ancient biblical town of Arabia Petraea

national god of the Edomites

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Costobarus (Greek: Κοστόβαρος) was an associate of Herod the Great (who made Costobarus governor of Idumea) and second husband of Herod's sister Salome I. He was also known as Costobar.

archaeological tomb-site in the territory of the biblical kingdom of Judah, between Lachish and Hebron