Suphah
Suphah
(Num. 21:14, marg.; also R.V.), a place at the south-eastern corner of the Dead Sea, the Ghor es-Safieh. This name is found in an ode quoted from the “Book of the Wars of the Lord,” probably a collection of odes commemorating the triumphs of God’s people (comp. 21:14, 17, 18, 27-30).
Fuente: Easton’s Bible Dictionary
Suphah
SUPHAH.An unknown locality E. of Jordan (Num 21:14).
Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible
Suphah
soofa (, suphah, for , wahebh besuphah; Septuagint reads , ten Zoob ephlogise; the King James Version Rea Sea): Suphah is the region in which Vaheb is situated (Num 21:14). It is probably identical with Suph of Deu 1:1. Tristram (Land of Moab, 50 f) suggested identification with Ghor es-Safiyeh, a small oasis East of the mud fiats of Es-Sebkhah, South of the Dead Sea; but the sibilants do not correspond, and Safiyeh is a specifically Arabic term (Wetzstein in Delitzsch, Gen4, 586, note 2) which does not seem to be a likely explanation of Suphah (Gray, Nu, ICC, 285 f). This, and other questions of identification, must wait for solution until a more thorough exploration of the whole district has been accomplished.