Modern locations of places in the Bible:

Rafat

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Latitude, Longitude	31.870556, 35.192222
Palestine 1928 Grid Coordinates (?)	168294/141958
Type	settlement
Point Precision	point in modern settlement
Coordinates Sources	Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary (1992): Irpeel Archaeological Survey of Israel Digital Archaeological Atlas of the Holy Land Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000): Irpeel GeoNames OpenStreetMap Wikidata
General Location Notes	Zondervan Encyclopedia of the Bible (2010) (Irpeel): “7 miles north-northwest of Jerusalem”
Precise Coordinates Notes	the position matches the coordinates, but I can’t find evidence that this is a khirbet; it’s different from Khirbat Rafat"
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Biblical places associated with Rafat

Irpeel: low confidence
Rekem: very low confidence

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