Modern locations of places in the Bible:

Umm el Azam

About

Also Called	Har Ezem, Mount Otzam, Thaffa
Latitude, Longitude	31.080567, 34.940812
Palestine 1928 Grid Coordinates (?)	144293/054394
Type	mountain
Point Precision	point on mountain
Coordinates Sources	Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary (1992): Ezem (place) Archaeological Survey of Israel Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000): Ezem GeoNames Musil, Arabia Petraea Map (1907): map 2 OpenStreetMap Palestine Open Maps: Palestine 1:100,000
General Location Notes	Zondervan Encyclopedia of the Bible (2010) (Ezem), International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1979) (Ezem): “12 miles southeast of Beersheba” McKinny, Historical Geography of the Administrative Division of Judah (2014) (page 98): “10 km south of Aroer” Palestine Open Maps (Palestine 1:100,000) calls an area just to the north the spelling variant "Umm Idham"
Precise Coordinates Notes	the identification of Umm el Azam with Thaffa is per McKinny, Historical Geography of the Administrative Division of Judah (2014) (page 98)
Geo Data	KML (for Google Earth) GeoJSON (for GIS applications)

Biblical places associated with Umm el Azam

Ezem: low confidence
Iim: low confidence

10-meter-per-pixel satellite Image

Credit: Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2019 (modified)

Unless otherwise indicated, all content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License. All Scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. Copyright ©2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Contact me: openbibleinfo (at) gmail.com.