| Ed'rei. (stronghold). One of the two capital cities of Bashan, in the territory of Manasseh, east of the Jordan. Numbers 21:33; Deuteronomy 1:4; Deu 3:10; Joshua 12:4. In Scripture, it is only mentioned in connection with the victory gained by the Israelites over the Amorites under Og their king, and the territory thus acquired. The ruins of this ancient city, still bearing the name, Edr'a, stand on a rocky promontory which projects from the southwest corner of the Lejah. The ruins are nearly three miles in circumference, and have a strange, wild, look, rising up in dark, shattered masses from the midst of a wilderness of black rocks. Smith's Bible Dictionary or |