Dophkah
Dophkah[note 1] is one of the places the Israelites camped at during their exodus from Egypt. It was one of twelve campsites near Timnah[1] that engaged in the manufacture of copper artifacts. Copper from Timnah, along with frankincense and myrrh from Punt, and bitumen and juniper oil from Canaan was traded to Phoenicians at at Elat. The traded oils were used in Egypt's mortuary trade at Karnak in return for Nubian gold shipped across the Red Sea from Elim, the port of Thebes(the capital of Egypt during the 18th dynasty).
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Notes
- ↑ Dophkah, West Semitic: to cling, adhere. Similar to dybbuk, from the Mishnaic Hebrew dibbûq: attachment, joining, or dibbq, from the Hebrew: to make cling, derived stem of dbaq, to cling
References
- ↑ Nelson Glueck "Rivers in the Desert" pp 34-38
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