("house of the weaned," elsewhere used of the camel). A town of Moab, in the mishor or downs E. of Jordan (Jer 48:23,21). Probably now Um el Jemal, "mother of a camel," one of the heretofore deserted cities of the Hauran. (See BASHAN.) A good sample of an unwalled town, with large open spaces and broad streets, one 150 ft. wide, the houses of stone, the finest E. of Jordan.

Beth-ga'mul

Town of Moab. Jer 48:23. Identified by some with Jemail, 31 31' N, 35 50' E.

Beth-ga'mul

(camel-house), a town of Moab, in the downs east of Jordan.

Jer 48:23

comp. Jere 48:21