ABELMEA (5'bel-m6'a). See ABEL-MEIIOLAII.
(5'bel-me-hOlah), (Heb. aw-bale'mekh-o-law', meadow of danc ing), a town supposed to have stood near the Jur dan, and sonic miles (Eusebius says ten) to the south of Bethshan or Scythopolis (I Kings iv :i2). It was probably situated not far from where the Wady el-Maleh emerges into the Aulon or valley of the Jordan. it is remarkable in connection with Gideon's victory over the Midianites (Judg. vii:22), and as the birthplace of Elisha (1 Kings xix:16).
(a'bel-rnIz'ra-Im), (Heb. aw-bale' mils-rah-yine,the mourning of the Egyptians).
The name of a threshing floor, so-called on ac count of the 'great mourning' made there for Jacob by the funeral party from Egypt (Gen. I :I I). Jerome places it between Jericho and the Jordan, where Bethagla afterwards stood. (See ATAD.) (a"'bel-shIt'tim), (Hcb. aw-bale' shit-teem', place of acacias).
A town in the plains of Moab, on the east of the Jordan, between which and Beth-Jesimoth was the last encampment of the Israelites on that side the river (Num. xxxiii :49). It is more fre
quently called Shittim merely (Num. xxv:t ; Josh.
Mic. vi:5). Eusebius says it was in the neighborhood of Mount Peor; and in the time of Josephus it was known as Abila, and stood sixty stadia from the Jordan (Antiq. iv:8, i; v :1, I). The place is noted for the severe punishment which was there inflicted upon the Israelites when they were seduced into the worship of Baal-Peor, through their evil intercourse with the Moabites and Midianites. (Sec BAAL.) ABEZ (a'bez), rh'bets, to glean, con spicuous, Josh. xix:2o).
A town in the tribe of Issachar, supposedly near the border mentioned between Kishion and Remeth (Josh. xix:2o). It is probably the village of Kunebiz, called also three miles west-southwest from lksal.