Zareth-shahar
(Heb. Tse’reth hash-Sha’char, , splendor of the dawn; Sept. v.r. ; Vulg. Sereth Assahar), a place in the tribe of Reuben, situated in the mountain ha-Emek (A. V. Mount of the Valley), i.e. in the abrupt edge of the Jordan or Dead Sea valley (Jos 13:19, where it is mentioned between Sibmah and Bethpeor). Seetzen (Reisen, 2, 369) proposes to identify it with a spot called Sard at the mouth of the Wady Zer’ka Main, about a mile from the edge of the Dead Sea.’ In this Tristram coincides, and he describes the spot as being in keeping with its poetical name, the inconsiderable ruins of Zara occupying a little oasis embayed in the shore of the sea, where the river runs through steep banks shaded by oleanders and palms, with numerous hot and somewhat sulphurous springs (Bible Places, p. 351). A place Shakuir is marked on Van de Velde’s map, about six miles south of es- Salt, at the head of the valley of the Wady Seir, which might possibly represent the latter part of the name more exactly.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Zareth-shahar
the splendour of the dawn, a city “in the mount of the valley” (Josh. 13:19). It is identified with the ruins of Zara, near the mouth of the Wady Zerka Main, on the eastern shore of the Dead Sea, some 3 miles south of the Callirrhoe. Of this town but little remains. “A few broken basaltic columns and pieces of wall about 200 yards back from the shore, and a ruined fort rather nearer the sea, about the middle of the coast line of the plain, are all that are left” (Tristram’s Land of Moab).
Fuente: Easton’s Bible Dictionary
Zareth-Shahar
One of Reuben’s towns. Jos 13:19, “in the mount of the valley” (haemeq). A Sara at wady Zerka Main, a mile from the Dead Sea, may now represent it. (Seetzen.)
Fuente: Fausset’s Bible Dictionary
Zareth-Shahar
H6890
A city in Reuben.
Jos 13:19
Fuente: Nave’s Topical Bible
Zareth-shahar
Za’reth-sha’har. (splendor of the dawn). A place mentioned only in Jos 13:19, in the catalogue of the towns allotted to Reuben.