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Nimrah

also known as: Beth-Nimrah (house of the leopard), Nimrin (plural), and Nimri

This is a city on the east of the Jordan River (Numbers 32:3). It is probably the same as Beth-Nimrah. It once belonged to the kingdom of Sihon (Joshua 13:27). In the Israelite conquest it was assigned to the Tribe of Gad.

In the 4th century BC, the city was again settled by Israelites who had returned from the Babylonian exile.1

It has been identified with the Tel Nimrin (aka Nahr Nimrin), at one of the fords of the Jordan, not far from Jericho. Today it is located in the Kingdom of Jordan.

This site was identified by archaeologist Nelson Glueck as the last of 3 sites successively occupied by the ancient city. These ruin mounds are named Tel el-Mustaḥ (Early Bronze I), Tel Bleibil (Iron Age I-II), and Tel Nimrin (Roman through early Muslim).

It is approximately 7.5 miles (12 kilometers) north of the Dead Sea and 9.9 miles (16 kilometers) east of Jericho.

1. Samuel Klein, Eber hay-Yarden hay-Yehudi (The Jewish Transjordan), Palästina-Studien: Neue Beiträge zur Geschichte und Geographie Galiläas (New contributions to the history and geography of Galilee), 1925, Volume 1, Issue 3 (Vienna, 1925), p. 13 (Hebrew).