Edrei
Edrei, an Amorite city east of the Jordan defeated by the Israelites under Moses.
The name Edrei means “a very great mass, or cloud”
PlaceOld Testament3 books8 verses
Summary
A location first mentioned at Numbers 21:33; only referred to as Edrei (אֶדְרֶ֫עִי).
Location
- Identified as
- Daraa
- Certainty
- Likely (82% of scholarship)
- Coordinates
- 32.625° N, 36.106° E
Glossary entries
Alternative names
- אֶדְרֶ֫עִיEdrei
Mentions
- Then they turned and went up the road to Bashan, and Og king of Bashan and his whole army came out to meet them in battle at Edrei.
- This was after he had defeated Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and then at Edrei had defeated Og king of Bashan, who lived in Ashtaroth.
- Then we turned and went up the road to Bashan, and Og king of Bashan and his whole army came out to meet us in battle at Edrei.
- …all the cities of the plateau, all of Gilead, and all of Bashan as far as the cities of Salecah and Edrei in the kingdom of Og.
- And Og king of Bashan, one of the remnant of the Rephaim, who lived in Ashtaroth and Edrei.
- …the whole kingdom of Og in Bashan, who had reigned in Ashtaroth and Edrei and had remained as a remnant of the Rephaim. Moses had struck them down and dispossessed them,
- …half of Gilead; and Ashtaroth and Edrei, the royal cities of Og in Bashan. All this was for the clans of the descendants of Machir son of Manasseh, that is, half of the descendants of Machir.
- Kedesh, Edrei, En-hazor,