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The Places of Proverbs

Proverbs names 1 place. 1 of them can be put on a map, 1 with confidence. The places and their references are OpenBible.info’s, which gathers what modern atlases and commentaries say about where each one stood.

Map of Egypt, Sinai and Canaan with the places named in Proverbs. Every place is listed in the table below.30°E35°E30°NEgyptN0200 km
  • Located with confidence
  • Location uncertain
  • Mountain
Egypt, Sinai and Canaan, with the coasts and lakes as they lie today.

Every place in Proverbs

The most often named first. Each place is set where its source puts it, and nowhere else; a place no source locates is listed and not drawn. References follow the chapter and verse numbering of the English Bible, which differs from the Septuagint’s in places.

PlaceReferencesSourceConfidence
Egypt7:16OpenBible.infoHigh

Places from OpenBible.info’s Bible Geocoding Data, under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence, and from Pleiades, © the Pleiades contributors, under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 licence. Coastlines, lakes and rivers from Natural Earth; relief from SRTM and ETOPO1 elevation data by way of the AWS Terrain Tiles; all public domain.