Arnon River

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The Arnon River is an important seasonal watercourse in the Levant, historically marking the boundary between ancient kingdoms east of the Dead Sea.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Arnon River canonical 3
Arnon 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (29)

Predicate Object
instanceOf river
seasonal watercourse
associatedWithAncientRegion Ammon
Edom
Moab
biblicalName Arnon
linked to: Arnon River
drainageBasin eastern highlands of the Dead Sea
emptiesInto Dead Sea
flowsThrough deep gorge
functionedAs natural frontier
political boundary
hasFlowCharacteristic seasonal
wadi-like
hasHistoricalRole boundary between Israelite-controlled territories and Moabite lands
hasHydrologicalType ephemeral stream
hasMouthElevation approximately -400 meters
historicallyMarkedBoundaryBetween Kingdom of Moab and Amorite territories
linked to: Kingdom of Moab
historicallyMarkedBoundaryOf Kingdom of Moab
Kingdom of Sihon
locatedEastOf Dead Sea
locatedIn Jordan
Levant
linked to: Levant region

Transjordan
mentionedIn Book of Deuteronomy
Book of Numbers
Hebrew Bible
linked to: Tanakh
referencedAs border of Moab in biblical texts
region East of the Dead Sea
wasStrategicallyImportantIn Iron Age Levant

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Moab borderedBy Arnon River
Ar of Moab nearbyBodyOfWater Arnon River
Arnon River biblicalName Arnon
linked to: Arnon River
Kingdom of Moab borderFeature Arnon River