the splendour of the dawn, a city "in the mount of the valley" (Jos 13:19). It is identified with the ruins of Zara, near the mouth of the Wady Zerka Main, on the eastern shore of the Dead Sea, some 3 miles south of the Callirrhoe. Of this town but little remains. "A few broken basaltic columns and pieces of wall about 200 yards back from the shore, and a ruined fort rather nearer the sea, about the middle of the coast line of the plain, are all that are left" (Tristram's Land of Moab).

One of Reuben's towns. Jos 13:19, "in the mount of the valley" (haemeq). A Sara at wady Zerka Main, a mile from the Dead Sea, may now represent it. (Seetzen.)