Where was Abel-mizraim?

Meadow of Egypt, or mourning of Egypt, a place “beyond,” i. e., on the west of Jordan, at the “threshing-floor of Atad. ” Here the Egyptians mourned seventy days for Jacob (Gen. 50:4-11). Its site is unknown. Modern identification: near the mouth of the Jordan River.

Abel-mizraim is represented in the local geography layer as near the mouth of the Jordan River. In this repository’s biblical text, the place first appears in Genesis 50:11 and is mentioned across 1 book, with 1 verse reference collected into the glossary index.