Lux Domini

Biblical place

Where was Jabneel?

Biblical place identified in the local geography layer with Tel Yin’am.

First appears in Joshua 19:33 · 1 books · 1 chapters

Overview

Built by God. (1. ) A town in the north boundary of Judah (Josh. 15:11), called afterwards by the Greeks Jamnia, the modern Yebna, 11 miles south of Jaffa. After the fall of Jerusalem. Modern identification: Tel Yin’am.

Jabneel is represented in the local geography layer as Tel Yin’am. In this repository’s biblical text, the place first appears in Joshua 19:33 and is mentioned across 1 book, with 1 verse reference collected into the glossary index.

Nearby biblical places

Galilee

About 5 km away in the local coordinate layer.

Canaan

About 18 km away in the local coordinate layer.

Nazareth

About 20 km away in the local coordinate layer.

Samaria

About 57 km away in the local coordinate layer.

Jericho

About 94 km away in the local coordinate layer.

Where it sits on the map

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How to get to Jabneel today

Travel to Jabneel, the modern-day Tel Yin’am.

Jabneel is commonly identified with Tel Yin’am, and the map on this page is meant to orient you to that present-day site before you continue into routing or street-level navigation.

Jabneel is mapped here at the commonly cited modern identification.

This is a study aid, not live travel advice. Archaeological tells, access rules, excavation boundaries, and nearby modern roads can change.

Modern orientation

Tel Yin’am

32.713°N · 35.513°E

Key passages

Appears in

Joshua

1 chapter · 1 verse mention