| Boz'rah. (fortress). In Edom, the city of Jobab, the son of Zerah, one of the early kings of that nation. Genesis 36:33; 1 Chronicles 1:44. Mentioned by Isaiah, Isaiah 34:6; Isa 63:1, in connection with Edom, and by Jeremiah, Jeremiah 49:13; Jer 49:22; Amos 1:12, and Micah 2:12. Its modern representative is el-Busaireh, which lies on the mountain district to the southeast of the Dead Sea. Smith's Bible Dictionary or |