Places of the Bible

Eder

Tower of the flock

Where the name appears

Events told in passages that name Eder, and how many of their verses do. That is not the same as saying they happened here: a place can be named as a landmark, as somewhere being travelled to, or as the subject of a prophecy.

Rachel dies giving birth to Benjamin · 1738 BC · 1 verse

Easton’s Bible Dictionary

Tower of the flock, a tower between Bethlehem and Hebron, near which Jacob first halted after leaving Bethlehem (Gen. 35:21). In Micah 4:8 the word is rendered “tower of the flock” (marg., “Edar”), and is used as a designation of Bethlehem, which figuratively represents the royal line of David as sprung from Bethlehem.

From M. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1893), in the public domain.

Named in 1 verse

Genesis: 35:21

The place, its people and its events come from Theographic, a knowledge graph of the Bible by Robert Rouse, used and shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.