A city at the northern extremity of the Elanitic or eastern gulf of the Red Sea, and close by Elath. The Israelites rested here in the last year of their wanderings from Egypt to Canaan, Numbers 33:35 De 2:8. At this port Solomon equipped his fleets for the voyage to Ophir, 1 Kings 9:26. A similar enterprise of Jehoshaphat failed, 1 Kings 22:48 2 Chronicles 20:36. See ELATH and EXODUS.