A term used to describe the whole east-Jordan land as viewed from Western Palestine. From there the land beyond Jordan rises as a great mountain chain to a height of 3000 feet and more from the Jordan valley. Hence Abarim is joined with 'mount' (Nu 27:12; De 32:49) and 'mountains' (Nu 33:47); also with 'Iyye, 'heaps of' (Nu 21:11). See also Jer 22:20 and Eze 39:11 (RV; AV 'passages').
E. W. G. Masterman.
They traveled from Oboth, and encamped at Iyeabarim, in the wilderness which is before Moab, toward the sunrise.
Yahweh said to Moses, "Go up into this mountain of Abarim, and see the land which I have given to the children of Israel.
They traveled from Almon Diblathaim, and encamped in the mountains of Abarim, before Nebo.
"Go up into this mountain of Abarim, to Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, that is over against Jericho; and see the land of Canaan, which I give to the children of Israel for a possession;
Go up to Lebanon, and cry; and lift up your voice in Bashan, and cry from Abarim; for all your lovers are destroyed.
It shall happen in that day, that I will give to Gog a place for burial in Israel, the valley of those who pass through on the east of the sea; and it shall stop those who pass through: and there shall they bury Gog and all his multitude; and they shall call it The valley of Hamon Gog.