Arnon (Jordan)
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| location | Jordan | |
| River system | Arnon | |
| source | in the mountains of Gilead | |
| muzzle | in the Dead Sea Coordinates: 31 ° 28 ′ 2 " N , 35 ° 33 ′ 48" E 31 ° 28 ′ 2 " N , 35 ° 33 ′ 48" E
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| length | 70 km | |
| Reservoirs flowed through | Mujib dam | |
The Arnon (Hebrew אַרְנֹן) is the Old Testament biblical name of the river Wadi al-Mujib (Arabic وادي الموجب) in today's Jordan . It rises in the mountains east of the Dead Sea , flows through the Wadi Mujib and flows into the Dead Sea. About five kilometers north of the Arnon is the city of Dhiban , which as Dibon was the capital of the biblical state of Moab .
The approximately 72-kilometer-long river is dammed 25 kilometers east of its mouth by the Mujib Dam to form a lake that is used for irrigation . During the summer it sometimes falls dry and in the rainy winter it develops into a body of water up to three meters deep.
Web links
- Immanuel Benzinger : Arnon . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume II, 1, Stuttgart 1895, column 1208.
- Friedbert Ninow: Arnon. In: Michaela Bauks, Klaus Koenen, Stefan Alkier (Eds.): The Scientific Biblical Lexicon on the Internet (WiBiLex), Stuttgart 2006 ff.
- http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=1799&letter=A
Footnotes
- ^ The Jewish Encyclopedia from 1901 to 1906 states "about 45 miles" (= 72 km) ( online ).