How to Pronounce Abel-Meholah

What does Abel-Meholah mean?

Abel-Meholah means “mourning of sickness”.

Hitchcock’s Bible Names (1869), public domain.

Where was Abel-Meholah?

Meadow of dancing, or the dancing-meadow, the birth-place and residence of the prophet Elisha, not far from Beth-shean (1 Kings 4:12), in the tribe of Issachar, near where the Wady el-Maleh emerges into the valley of the Jordan, “the rich meadow-land which extends about 4 miles south of Beth-shean; moist and luxuriant.” Here Elisha was found at his plough by Elijah on his return up the Jordan valley from Horeb (1 Kings 19:16). It is now called ‘Ain Helweh.

Adapted from Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897), public domain.

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