beginnings; easternmost, a city of Reuben, assigned to the Levites of the family of Merari ( Joshua 13:18 ). It lay not far north-east of Dibon-gad, east of the Dead Sea.

These dictionary topics are from
M.G. Easton M.A., D.D., Illustrated Bible Dictionary, Third Edition,
published by Thomas Nelson, 1897. Public Domain, copy freely.