ABEL-MIZRAIM ā’ bəl mĭz’ rĭ əm (אָבֵ֣ל מִצְרַ֔יִם, meadow of Egypt). An unidentified site where the funeral cortège of Jacob stopped on its way to Hebron for a special seven days of mourning according to Genesis 50:10, 11. The other name for this place is “the threshingfloor of Atad.” Obviously there is a pun here between ’ebel, “mourning” and ’abel “meadow.” The location is not necessarily on the E side of the Jordan as the majority view states, but is prob. on the W side. The phrase “Beyond the Jordan” must not always refer to Transjordania as now shown by the Sabaean word ’brt, “The neighborhood of a stream” and Genser’s suggestion “the region of Jordan or Jordania.”

Bibliography B. Gemmser, “Be eber Hajjarden: In Jordan’s Borderland,” VT II (1953), 349-355; G. T. Manley, The Book of the Law (1957), 48-50.