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NIMRIM

(Heb. nimrîm),

WATERS OF

A place in Moab known for its abundant water resources and lush vegetation. In the oracles of judgment against Moab (Isa. 15:6; Jer. 48:34) the prophets announce that the waters would dry up and the once fertile ground would turn into a desert.

Eusebius located Nimrim at Bennamarein, N of Zoar at the southeastern corner of the Dead Sea. Some scholars equate Nimrim with Tell Nimrîn (Beth-nimrah, Num. 32:36; Josh. 13:27), but most identify the waters of Nimrim with Seil en-Numeirah, a perennial stream ca. 16 km. (10 mi.) N of Wadi el-µesa, and Nimrim with Numeirah, an Early Bronze Age site located on a cliff overlooking the entrance of the wadi and the Dead Sea plain. The site was surrounded by a wide city wall. Among various industrial installations are unusual storage bins or drainage pits. Evidence of a fiery destruction in the Early Bronze period is abundant.

Bibliography. W. E. Rast, “Settlement at Numeira,” in The Southeastern Dead Sea Plain Expedition, ed. Rast and R. T. Schaub. AASOR 46 (Cambridge, Mass., 1981), 35-44; Rast and Schaub, “Preliminary Report of the 1979 Expedition to the Dead Sea Plain, Jordan,” BASOR 240 (1980): 21-61.

Friedbert Ninow

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NIMRIM

Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000)