Zered
Archimandrite Nikifor’s Biblical Encyclopedia
(abundance of willows, or luxuriant foliage of trees) (Num. 21:12; Deut. 2:13, 14) — a valley and brook, rising in the mountains of Abarim and flowing into the Dead Sea south of the Arnon, in the land of Moab — supposed to be the present Wadi el-Ahsa. On the banks of this brook the Israelites had their encampment on the way from Egypt to the Promised Land, near the end of their forty years’ wandering in the wilderness. The brook flows through a very deep ravine and contains a hot spring, which the Arabs call “the spring of Solomon, son of David.”