JESHIMON

1. Desolate wilderness at the end of the Dead Sea, not far from Pisgah and Peor (Nm 21:20; 23:28). In both passages the nlt renders it “wasteland” in the text but has “Jeshimon” in the margin, allowing it to be translated as a specific area. The rsv uses “desert.”

2. Wilderness to the north of the hill of Hakilah and of Maon (1 Sm 23:19, 24; 26:1-3); this location was probably just a few miles south of Hebron.